We’re flattered that we’ve seen some advertising us as the Global Spectrum Scale user group event, and its great that we’re doing well. This year’s event will be bigger than ever with space for up to 200 attendees, we’ve had to move out of IBM Client Centre in South Bank and are heading north to Manchester!

The UK Spring user group will take place over two days on 9th and 10th May 2017 at the Macdonald Manchester Hotel, Manchester. We’d like to thank IBM and our sponsors for supporting the event and the evening networking/social event on the evening of 9th May 2017.

As usual, we will have a packed agenda with speakers from the IBM development teams, user talks as well as technical talks from our sponsors.

The hotel where the event is taking place has reserved a limited number of rooms for the night before the event (8th May) and the night of the event (9th May). The rates are £115 B&B and £145 B&B per room per night respectively and if anyone wishes to book they can call the hotel 0344 879 9088 and quote code OCFP090517 to benefit from these rates. Please ensure you have confirmed your ticket via the registration page before booking your hotel room.

The agenda for the day is a bit further down the page and we are looking for users to do a short presentation on their use of Spectrum Scale/GPFS. Please contact us if you’d like to volunteer. These are often the most valuable talks of the event so please don’t be shy!

Sponsors

We’d very much like to thank the following sponsors for supporting the user group meeting by providing funding to support the evening social event:

ArcaStream	DDN
Ellexus	Lenovo
IBM	Mellanox
OCF	Seagate

Media Sponsor:

Agenda

Day 1 – 9th May 2017

09:00 – 10:00	Registration & Networking
10:00 – 10:30	Opening & Welcome – Simon Thompson (UG), Michael Daubman (IBM)
10:30 – 11:20	Spectrum Scale Update – Ulf Troppens (IBM)
11:20 – 11:40	ESS Update – Christopher Maestas (IBM)
11:40 – 12:00	Sponsor Talk 1 – Ellexus: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage: an I/O profiling case study – Dr. Rosemary Francis
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch & Networking
13:00 – 13:20	Customer Talk – “The UK Research Data Facility” – Kieran Leach (EPCC)
13:20 – 13:40	Sponsor Talk 2 – DDN: AFM Case Studies – Vic Cornell
13:40 – 14:30	Spectrum Scale Cloud Deployments – Christopher Maestas (IBM)
14:30 – 14:50	Licensing – Carl Zetie (IBM)
14:50 – 15:20	Coffee and Networking
15:20 – 15:40	Sponsor Talk 3 – Arcastream: Automated Data Curation and Discovery with Spectrum Scale and ArcaStream – Jez Tucker & Barry Evans
15:40 – 16:30	Problem Determination – Simon Lorenz (IBM)
16:30 – 17:20	Best Practices – Olaf Weiser (IBM)
17:50 – 18:00	Wrap up
18:00	Finish
19:00	Evening Social Event, drinks and food – Manchester Museum of Science and Industry

Day 2 – 10th May 2017

08:30 – 09:00	Coffee and Networking
09:00 – 10:00	Parallel Breakout/workshop session 1 Integration with Spectrum Protect for Backup – Fabian Kulhl (IBM) Docker Support / Update on metadata sizing – Olaf Weiser (IBM), Indulis Bernsteins (IBM) CES Authentication / Spectrum Scale Security (Meet the Devs) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM)
10:00 – 11:00	Parallel Breakout/workshop session 2 Introduction to AFM and Use Cases – Nils Haustein (IBM) Object, SwiftHLM and OpenStack (cloud) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM), Simon Lorenz (IBM) GUI and REST API (Meet the Devs) – Alexander Wolf (IBM)
11:00 – 12:00	Parallel Breakout/workshop session 3 Automation of Storage Services – Nils Haustein (IBM) Container and Virtualisation support (Cloud) – John Lewars (IBM) HDFS Support (Meet the Devs) – Piyush Chaudrhary (IBM)
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch & Networking
13:00 – 13:20	Sponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: RoCE and Spectrum Scale – RDMA support and performance over Ethernet – Darren Harkins
13:20 – 13:40	Customer Talk – AFM Migration – The road to perdition – Mark Roberts (AWE) & Laurence Horrocks-Barlow (OCF)
13:40 – 14:00	Sponsor Talk 5 – Seagate: Accelerating Spectrum Scale with an Intelligent IO Manager – Ray Coetzee
14:00 – 14:20	Customer Talk – TBC
14:20 – 14:50	Coffee and Networking
14:50 – 16:00	Research Topics – Sven Oehme (IBM)
16:00 – 16:30	Wrap-up and feedback – Simon Thompson (UG), Michael Daubman (IBM)
16:30	Finish

Registration

To register for this year’s event, please use our EventBrite event page at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scalegpfs-user-group-spring-2017-tickets-32113696932

Registration is now open.

Please note that we are currently limiting registrations to 3 per organisation to ensure as many organisations as possible are able to attend and places are strictly limited due to room capacity. We will be operating a wait list, so if you can’t get a ticket now, then we’ll hold details in case they become available nearer the date.

We look forward to seeing you in May!