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2024
ISC 2024, Hamburg, Germany, (May)
German User Meeting 2024, Sindelfingen, Germany (March)
- SSUG24DE – JSC – New Storage for Juelich – Exabyte for Exascale
- SSUG24DE – SVA – A five year journey with ESS
- SSUG24DE – ETHZ – Speicherumgebung an der ETH Zuerich
- SSUG24DE – DESY – Storage Scale System 6000
- SSUG24DE – Lenovo – Update on IBM Storage Scale
- SSUG24DE – Tuxera – MacOS media & entertainment workloads with SMB
- SSUG24DE – Data Lakehouse with watsonx.data and IBM Storage
- SSUG24DE – Lessons from the Field
- SSUG24DE – Consistent safeguarded copies with Storage Protect on Storage Scale
- SSUG24DE – OpenShift and Storage Scale with InfiniBand and RDMA
- SSUG24DE – Lightning Talks I
- SSUG24DE – Introduction to Storage Fusion
- SSUG24DE – Introduction to Storage Ceph
- SSUG24DE – Introducing IBM Storage Defender and Update on IBM Storage Protect
- SSUG24DE – IBM Tape Update
- SSUG24DE – Strategy Update
- SSUG24DE – Nvidia and ARM Update
- SSUG24DE – Storage Scale on IBM Cloud
- SSUG24DE – CNSA Update
- SSUG24DE – Performance Monitoring and Prometheus Exporter
- SSUG24DE – AFM Deep Dive
- SSUG24DE – Unified Installation and Configuration – On-premise and on Cloud
- SSUG24DE – Cloudkit and Ansible Toolkit (Deep Dive)
- SSUG24DE – Requirements, RFEs, Ideas
- SSUG24DE – Modernisation of Storage Scale
- SSUG24DE – mmhealth Update
- SSUG24DE – Currency Update
German New User Day 2024, Sindelfingen, Germany (March)
- SSUG24DE – NU01 – Introduction to Storage Scale
- SSUG24DE – NU02 – Storage Scale and Storage Ceph
- SSUG24DE – NU03 – Storage Scale Concepts
- SSUG24DE – NU04 – Storage Scale System
- SSUG24DE – NU05 – Storage Scale for Data, AI and Nvidia GPUs
- SSUG24DE – NU06 – Storage Scale Licensing
- SSUG24DE – NU07 – Data Tiering with Storage Scale
- SSUG24DE – NU08 – Storage Scale on Clouds
2023
SC23 (November)
- SSUG23SC – Welcome
- SSUG23SC – IBM Storage Scale System 6000 (updated)
- SSUG23SC – Storage Scale ECE and FS Core Optimizations for AI workload in CSP and Hyperscaler
- SSUG23SC – University of Queensland – High performance S3 access with IBM Storage Scale, ECE and IBM Storage Fusion
- SSUG23SC – Guardant Health – One Namespace to Bind Them
- SSUG23SC – Guardant Health – On-Demand Bandwidth Implementation
- SSUG23SC – Cadence – HPC EDA Solution on IBM Cloud
- SSUG23SC – Lenovo – Eeking out performance with MROT
- SSUG23SC – Starfish – Take the Rage out of Storage
- SSUG23SC – Sycomp – Sycomp Storage fueld by IBM Storage Scale
- SSUG23SC – Accelerating Data for GPUs
- SSUG23SC – AFM Update
- SSUG23SC – Storage Scale Strategy Update
- SSUG23SC – What’s new in Storage Scale
- SSUG23SC – Ustore
- SSUG23SC – Performance Update
NYC (September)
- SSUG23NYC – DST – ESS Upgrade Process (Legacy to Modern)
- SSUG23NYC – Tuxera – IBM Storage Scale and High Performance SMB with Tuxera
- SSUG23NYC – Einstein Montefiore – Resiliency for Unstructured DataResiliency for Unstructured Datain an Era of Rising Cyber Threats
UK User Group Meeting, London, UK (June)
- SSUG23UK – Welcome Presentation
- SSUG23UK – Storage Scale Strategy Update
- SSUG23UK – Storage Scale Dynamic Pagepool
- SSUG23UK – ESS Deployment & ESS Disk Hospital
- SSUG23UK – AFM Update
- SSUG23UK – Storage Scale Resiliency Services
- SSUG23UK – Cybervault for Storage Scale
- SSUG23UK – Storage Scale along with Storage Protect and Storage Archive
- SSUG23UK – The Institute of Cancer Research – Adventures with AFM
- SSUG23UK – Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Site Update
- SSUG23UK – Sponsor Talk – Bridgeworks – A Customer Story
- SSUG23UK – Sponsor Talk – Tuxera – IBM Storage Scale and High Performance SMB with Tuxera
ISC23, Hamburg, Germany (May)
- SSUG23ISC – DESY – Experiences with ESS
- SSUG23ISC – University of Queensland – UQ’s Storage Scale Journey
- SSUG23ISC – Sponsor Talk – Tuxera – High Performance SMB & CIFS
German User Meeting, Sindelfingen, Germany (March)
- SSUG23DE – Spectrum Scale Resiliency Services
- SSUG23DE – DESY – ESS Deployments at EuXFEL
- SSUG23DE – FZJ – CES Based Object Storage
- SSUG23DE – Lenovo – Architecting an ECE Solution
- SSUG23DE – LRZ – IBM Spectrum Scale at LRZ
- SSUG23DE – SVA – Multi -tenant File System Consolidation
- SSUG23DE – SVA – IBM ESS as Super Fast and Super Scalable Backup Storage for Commvault
- SSUG23DE – Spectrum Scale Health Monitoring
- SSUG23DE – Pending RPC Detection & Expel
- SSUG23DE – CNSA Health Monitoring
- SSUG23DE – Spectrum Fusion Day 2 Operations
- SSUG23DE – Sustainability with Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Archive and IBM Tape
2022
SC22 (November)
- SSUG22SC – Introductions and Committee Updates
- SSUG22SC – UTSW Medical Center – BioHPC OnDemand – Extending an HPC cluster to cloud infrastructures
- SSUG22SC – Strategy Update
- SSUG22SC – Spectrum Scale on IBM Cloud
German User Meeting, Cologne, Germany (October)
- SSUG22DE – Strategy Update
- SSUG22DE – What is new in IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS (2022)
- SSUG22DE – Update from the EMEA Storage Competence Center
- SSUG22DE – Ideas aka Request for Enhancements process
- SSUG22DE – Spectrum Scale licensing
- SSUG22DE – Lenovo – Lenovo storage update and lessons from a DSS-G upgrade
- SSUG22DE – Rohde and Schwarz – Using Spectrum Scale for Media and Broadcast Workflows
- SSUG22DE – SVA – Simplified and accelerated – Spectrum Scale as data hub in medical research
- SSUG22DE – UFZ – DIY Tiering and Online Migration using AFM
- SSUG22DE – AFM Update
- SSUG22DE – CNSA and CSI Update
- SSUG22DE – HDFS Update
- SSUG22DE – Monitoring Improvements
- SSUG22DE – Easy Installation using Terraform and Ansible
- SSUG22DE – Terraform and Ansible Deep Dive
- SSUG22DE – Introduction to Spectrum Fusion
- SSUG22DE – Introduction to Spectrum Discover
- SSUG22DE – Sustainability with Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Archive und IBM Tape
- SSUG22DE – Field Update
- SSUG22DE – Container and Object Storage Hints and Tips
- SSUG22DE – Secure Data Sharing to Applications in OpenShift with IBM Spectrum Scale
NYC 2022 User Meeting, NY, USA (October)
- NYC22 – Strategy Update
- NYC22 – What is new in IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.5
- NYC22 – What is new in ESS
- NYC22 – Container Update
- NYC22 – Support Update
- NYC22 – Spectrum Scale on IBM Cloud
- NYC22 – Spectrum Fusion
- NYC22 – NYU Langone Health – Spectrum Scale (GPFS) at NYU Langone Health
- NYC22 – New York Genome Center – 30PB Replicated Genomic Data Archive using Spectrum Archive
- NYC22 – Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Using Scale to Improve Stewardship of Research Data Management & Storage
UK 2022 User Group Meeting, London, UK (June)
- SSUG22UK – Spectrum Scale Strategy non NDA
- SSUG22UK – What is new in IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.4 and ESS
- SSUG22UK – Introduction to Spectrum Scale DAS S3
- SSUG22UK – Spectrum Scale HDFS Update
- SSUG22UK – Spectrum Scale GPUDirect Storage Update
- SSUG22UK – Spectrum Scale Monitoring Improvements
- SSUG22UK – Spectrum Scale on IBM Cloud
- SSUG22UK – Diamond Light Source – Supporting Science with Spectrum Scale
- SSUG22UK – Atempo – Migration of Spectrum Scale
- SSUG22UK – Lenovo – Lenovo Update
- SSUG22UK – Performance Update
- SSUG22UK – University of Oslo – Spectrum Discover for Data Management – FAIR@uio
ISC22, Hamburg, Germany (May)
- ISC22 – Global Data Platform
- ISC22 – What is new in IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.3 and ESS
- ISC22 – SVA – Not enough money for an all flash HPC storage – a brief cheating guide
- ISC22 – Spectrum Scale Field Update
2021
CIUK, Manchester (December)
- CIUK21 – 01 – What’s new in Spectrum Scale 5.1.2
- CIUK21 – 02 – Spectrum Scale at the Francis Crick Institute
- CIUK21 – 03 – ECE at HPE
- CIUK21 – 04 – Spectrum Discover
German User Meeting (digital, March)
- SSSD21DE – 01 – Spectrum Scale Strategy Update
- SSSD21DE – 02 – Spectrum Scale CNSA
- SSSD21DE – 03 – Spectrum Scale CNSA Live Demo (Architecture)
- SSSD21DE – 03 – Spectrum Scale CNSA Live Demo with Apache Spark
- SSSD21DE – 04 – ESS Update
- SSSD21DE – 05 – ESS Deployment
- SSSD21DE – 05 – ESS Deployment Demo
- SSSD21DE – 06 – Improving Spectrum Scale performance using RDMA
- SSSD21DE – 07 – Lenovo Solutions with Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE)
- SSSD21DE – 08 – SVA – Backup Consolidation with Veeam and Spectrum Scale
- SSSD21DE – 09 – Spectrum Protect Plus along with Spectrum Scale
- SSSD21DE – 10 – Spectrum Scale HDFS Update
- SSSD21DE – 11 – HUK-Coburg – Backup of Hadoop Clusters
2020
SSUG::Digital Series (Online)
Slides and links to the videos are embedded in the event pages. The answers to the Q&A questions are also provided:
- Talk 1: What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.0.5
- Talk 2: Best practices for building a stretched cluster
- Talk 3: Spectrum Scale Strategy Update
- Talk 4: Update on Performance Enhancements in Spectrum Scale
- Talk 5: Deep Dive in Spectrum Scale Core (inode management, vCPU scaling & NUMA)
Spectrum Scale Usergroup (Online, Australia, August)
- SSUGAUS2020 – Sean Crosby – University of Melbourne – Customer talk – From CephFS to Spectrum Scale
- SSUGAUS2020 – What is new in IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.5
- SSUGAUS2020 – Spectrum Scale Strategy
- SSUGAUS2020 – Persistent Storage For Containers
- SSUGAUS2020 – Spectrum Scale ECE Release Updates
- SSUGAUS2020 – Secured Storage and Security Solutions with Spectrum Scale
- SSUGAUS2020 – Jake Carroll – University of Queensland – Customer talk – Next Generation ESS
- Dale McCurdy’s talk on RoCE and tuning, as related to University of Melbourne, will be released in a paper in October 2020 or earlier.
German Spectrum Scale User Meeting (Ehningen, March)
Wednesday
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale Strategy
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale Storage for AI
- SSSD20DE – Deep Thought – an AI project for autonomous driving (Continental)
- SSSD20DE – How ESS3000 makes your GPUs fly – A field report based on the Deep Thought project (SVA)
- SSSD20DE – What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.0.4 and 5.0.5
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale Cloud Native Storage & Containers
- SSSD20DE – Challenges and migrations with Spectrum Scale at Heidelberg University
- SSSD20DE – Accelerating SAS Workloads with Spectrum Scale and Excelero NVMesh (Deutsche Bank)
- SSSD20DE – Backup of Hadoop data with Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Archive and Tape (HUK-Coburg)
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale Proactive Service
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale pre and post sales support
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale Performance Update March 2020
- SSSD20DE- Spectrum Scale Performance Enhancements for Direct IO
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale multi-socket support and related network flows
Thursday
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale and ESS Licensing
- HPCXXL19 – Spectrum Scale licensing and lifecycle (no update)
- SSSD20DE – Elastic Storage System (ESS) Update
- SSSD20DE – Storage for Splunk (SVA)
- SSSD20DE – Lenovo Storage Solutions for IBM Spectrum Scale (Updated)
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale deployment and Cloud DevOps
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale Support Update
Break-out Session
- SSSD20DE – Efficiently Manage your Hadoop and Analytics Workflow with Spectrum Scale
- SSSD20DE – Howto enable AI workloads with OpenShift and Spectrum Scale
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale use cases and (field) lessons learned with Kubernetes and OpenShift
- SSSD20DE – Tiered storage filesystems
- SSSD20DE – Why tape makes a difference for your Spectrum Scale environment
- SSSD20DE – Contrasting data protection methods for Spectrum Scale
- SSSD20DE- Keep your Spectrum Scale cluster HEALTHY with MAPS
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale and ESS monitoring using GUI, REST API, SNMP and mail
- SSSD20DE – Using the Spectrum Scale REST API in Ansible Playbooks und Modules
- SSSD20DE – Discover the value of your data with Spectrum Discover
- SSSD20DE – What is new in Spectrum Scale Cluster Export Services (CES)
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale support for macOS
- Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE)
- SSSD20DE – Spectrum Scale Memory Usage
2019
Spectrum Scale User Group Meeting @ CIUK (Manchester,December)
- CIUK19 – Spectrum Scale AI Ecosystem
- CIUK19 – NFS at Diamond Light Source
- CIUK19 – DDN Update
- CIUK19 – Give or Take a block
Spectrum Scale User Group Meeting @ SC19 (Denver, November)
- SC19 – IBM Spectrum Scale – Use cases
- SC19 – IBM Spectrum Scale – Concepts and features
- SC19 – IBM Spectrum Scale – Orientation for new user
- SC19 – Evolving a campus wide research storage (University of Queensland)
- SC19 – Spectrum Scale Migrations and Challenges (St. Jude)
- SC19 – Spectrum Scale Data Migration with AFM (Nuance)
- SC19 – It’s the network again (Lenovo)
- SC19 – Fastest File Server in Public Cloud using IBM Spectrum Scale on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- SC19 – How an IBM “Full Stack” Partner can help (Mark III Systems)
- SC19 – IBM Spectrum Scale Strategy
- SC19 – IBM Spectrum Scale – Deployment and Cloud DevOps
- SC19 – IBM Spectrum Scale & ESS Update
- SC19 – IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE)
- HPCXXL19 – Block and inode allocation in Spectrum Scale (no update)
Spectrum Scale Days @ HPCXXL (NERSC, September)
- HPCXXL19 – Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE)
- HPCXXL19 – Workflow automation with Clustered Watch
- HPCXXL19 – Advanced metadata management with IBM Spectrum Discover
- HPCXXL19 – Spectrum Scale licensing and lifecycle
- HPCXXL19 – AWE – Doing more with less
- HPCXXL19 – JSC – Multi PB user data migration
- HPCXXL19 – Lenovo – Flexible configurations in the data center
- HPCXXL19 – Cloud Native Spectrum Scale
- HPCXXL19 – Block and inode allocation in Spectrum Scale
- HPCXXL19 – NVIDIA – The storage layer in the NVDIA DGX SuperPOD
- HPCXXL19 – NERSC – Site update
Spectrum Scale and Spectrum LSF User Meeting @ ISC, Frankfurt (June)
- SSUG19ISC – 01 – What is new in Spectrum Scale and ESS
- SSUG19ISC – 02 – Sharing files in Spectrum Scale with Nextcloud Sync&Share
- SSUG19ISC – 03 – What is new in Spectrum LSF
- SSUG19ISC – 04 – University of Queensland – Caches all the way down, Building a wide area data fabric with IBM Spectrum Scale
- SSUG19ISC – 05 – Spectrum Scale Reliability, Availability und Serviceability (RAS)
- SSUG19ISC – 06 – Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE)
- SSUG19ISC – 07 – IO Profiling with Ellexus
- SSUG19ISC – 08 – AI at scale with Spectrum LSF
- SSUG19ISC – 09 – Best Practices for Spectrum Scale with Lenovo DE4000 DE6000 Storage
Spectrum Scale User Group Meeting, London (May)
Chart decks which are different to previous meetings.
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 01 – Welcome Remarks
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 02 – Nvidia – Doing large scale AI faster
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 03 – Mellanox – Ethernet Storage Fabric (ESF)
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 04 – Weizmann Institute – Chemistry Faculty HPC
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 05 – DDN – Optimizing storage stacks for AI
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 06 – Lenovo Storage fast and slow
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 07 – Spectrum Scale Support Update
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 08 – Amsterdam VUC – Information Lifecycle Data Managment
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 09 – E8storage – Shared NVMe for High Performance Spectrum Scale Clusters
- SSUG19UK – Day 1 – 10 – Queen Mary University London – Implementing a scratch filesystem on E8 Storage NVMe
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – 01 – Atempo – Large Filesystem Migration & Backup
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – 02 – Migrating Spectrum Scale filesystems with minimal downtime
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – 03 – PSI – Experience with Spectrum Scale AFM
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B01 – Spectrum Scale Cloud Update
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B02 – Spectrum Scale Support for Container
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B03 – Towards Proactive Service with Call Home
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B04 – Deep-dive on Spectrum Scale Reliability, Availability and Serviceability improvements
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B05 – Tiering to tape with IBM Spectrum Archive
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B06 – Spectrum Scale Watch Folder
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B07 – Lessons from the field
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B08 – Network and disk adventures
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B09 – Spectrum Scale policy engine and ILM
- SSUG19UK – Day 2 – B10 – IBM Spectrum Scale Network Related Flows and Troubleshooting
- SSUG19UK – New User’s Session
Spectrum Scale User Group Meeting, Boulder (April)
Chart decks which are different to previous meetings.
- SSUG19US – Day 1 – 01 – Doing Large Scale AI Faster
- SSUG19US – Day 1 – 02 – What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.0.3
- SSUG19US – Day 1 – 03 – NCAR Site Update
- SSUG19US – Day 1 – 05 – Spectrum Scale Support Update
- SSUG19US – Day 1 – 06 – Cloud & Container Update
- SSUG19US – Day 1 – 07 – Spectrum Scale Cyber Security Survey
- SSUG19US – Day 1 – 08 – Advanced metadata management with Spectrum Discover
- SSUG19US – Day 2 – 01 – Excelero NVMesh – Lowest-Latency Distributed Block Storage for IBM Spectrum Scale
- SSUG19US – Day 2 – 02 – Spectrum Scale Active File Management (AFM) Update
- SSUG19US – Day 2 – 03 – Online Expansion Using mmvdisk (Lenovo)
- SSUG19US – Day 2 – 04 – Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT)
- SSUG19US – Day 2 – B01 – Spectrum Scale Protocols – Overview
- SSUG19US – Day 2 – B04 – Spectrum Scale on Google Cloud
- SSUG19US – Day 2 – B06 – Spectrum Scale Vagrant
- SSUG19US – Day 2 – B09 – Spectrum Scale Watch Folder
Spectrum Scale User Meeting, Ehningen (March)
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 02 – Accelerating AI workloads with Spectrum Scale
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 03 – IBM Spectrum Storage for AI with Nvidia DGX
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 04 – AI Ecosystem and Solutions with IBM Spectrum Scale
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 05 – Spectrum Scale update
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 06 – ESCC Support update
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 07 – ESS Update
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 08 – Multi PB user data migration @ FZ Juelich
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 09 – ECUREP – A GDPR compliant file storage
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 10 – Towards Proactive Service with Call Home
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 11 – Container and Cloud Update
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 12 – Spectrum Scale Network Flow
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 13 – DATIS – Cloud for Analytics and AI
- SSSD19DE – Day 1 – 14 – CANCOM – Research Data Management
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – 02 – Spectrum Scale tipps for the working day
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – 03 – Monitoring of InfiniBand fabrics
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – 04 – Spectrum Scale cloud tiering from DSS-G to DSS-C (Ceph)
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – 05 – Spectrum Scale field update
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B01 – Spectrum Scale as Data Platform for ADAS and Autonomous Driving Development
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B02 – Integration of Spectrum Scale and Aspera Sync
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B03 – Getting Started with the REST API
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B04 – Spectrum Scale Memory Usage
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B05 – Spectrum Scale architectures and use cases – Not only for Z
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B06 – Spectrum Scale on Amazon AWS
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B07 – Spectrum Scale support for containers
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B08 – Performance data analysis with Grafana dashboards
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B09 – Integrating IBM Spectrum Scale in external monitoring systems
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B10 – Spectrum Scale with Spectrum Protect update
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B11 – Deep-dive on Spectrum Scale reliability, availability and servicability improvements
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B12 – How to design an Spectrum Scale solution
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B13 – Spectrum Scale tips and tricks for SMB
- SSSD19DE – Day 2 – B14 – Spectrum Scale installation toolkit
Spectrum Scale User Group, SCA19 Singapore (March)
- SCA19 – 01 – Spectrum Scale Use Cases (Ulf Troppens, IBM)
- SCA19 – 02 – Optimize your data pipeline for analytics and AI (Par Hettinga, IBM)
- SCA19 – 03 – Data Management for autonomous driving development (Frank Kraemer, IBM)
- SCA19 – 04 – What is new in Spectrum Scale (Wei Gong, IBM)
- SCA19 – 05 – What is new in ESS (Chris Maestas, IBM)
- SCA19 – 06 – What is new in Support (Ravikumar Ramaswamy, IBM)
- SCA19 – 07 – Spectrum Scale on AWS Marketplace (Smita Raut, IBM)
- SCA19 – 09 – Genomics Deployments Enabling Precision Medicine with IBM Spectrum Scale (Sandeep Patil, IBM)
- SCA19 – 10 – Running Spark Hadoop workload on Spectrum Scale (Wei Gong, IBM)
- SCA19 – 11 – Lenovo – HPC Storage Solutions Update (Michael Hennecke, Lenovo)
- SCA19 – 12 – Spectrum Scale and containers (Smita Raut, IBM)
- SCA19 – 13- Tiering cold data to IBM Spectrum Archive (Khanh Ngo, IBM)
- EuXFEL–online & offline data processing and storage (Martin Gasthuber, Stefan Dietrich, Janusz Malka – DESY/IT Kryzsztof Wrona, Janusz Szuba – EuXFEL CHEP16 – San Francisco)
- Other customer papers are awaiting release.
2018
Spectrum Scale User Group, Computing Insight, UK (December)
- Optimising Storage Stacks for AI (Sven Oehme, DDN)
- Spectrum Scale Memory Usage (Tomer Perry, IBM)
- Data Insight for Petabyte-Scale Unstructured Data Storage (Indulis Bernsteins, IBM)
- Spectrum Scale Update (Daniel Kidger, IBM)
Spectrum Scale User Group, SC18 (November)
- Spectrum Scale 5.0.2 Update (Chris Maestas, IBM)
- ESS Update (Puneet Chaudhary, IBM)
- Spectrum Scale Service Update (Chris Maestas, IBM)
- Lessons Learned (Kevin Buterbaugh,Vanderbilt University)
- Scratch Storage with NVMe (Thomas King, Queen Mary University of London)
- Spectrum Scale and Containers (John Lewars, IBM)
- Protocol Node Discussion (Tomer Perry / Ulf Troppens, IBM)
- Network Design for Spectrum Scale (Gilad Shainer, Mellanox)
- AI Discussion, Ted Hoover, IBM)
- Improving Spark work load performance
with Spectrum Conductor (Chris Schlipalius, Pawsey) - Spectrum Scale @ DDN – Technical update (Sven Oehme, DDN)
- Burst Buffer (Tom Gooding, IBM)
- IBM Spectrum Discover (Joe Dain, IBM)
- Ceph as a Spectrum Scale Tier (Michael Hennecke, Lenovo)
Spectrum Scale User Group US, NY Genome Center (October)
- Presentation Bundle (zip file), All Presentations
Spectrum Scale User Group US, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (September)
- Presentation Bundle (zip file), All Presentations
Spectrum Scale User Group US, Cambridge MA (May)
- Starfish Virtual Global File System, Peter Galvin
- Spectrum Scale Network Flows, John Lewars
- Spectrum Scale Cloud Enablement, John Lewars
- Contrasting the performance of compression algorithms on genomic data, Cornel Constantinescu
- Shared NVMe for High Performance Spectrum Scale Clusters, Zivan Ori
- File Audit Logging, Subashini Balachandran
- IBM Spectrum Scale What’s new in 5.0.0, Mathias Dietz
- Spectrum Scale Virtualization in Test and Development, Aaron Palazzolo
- IBM Spectrum Scale Install Toolkit Overview, Aaron Palazzolo & Muthu Muthiah
- Spectrum Scale and Compute
- Experiences using a multi-tiered GPFS file system at Mount Sinai, Bhupender Thakur
- Spectrum Scale & ESS Upgrade, Aaron Palazzolo & Muthu Muthiah
- IBM Spectrum Scale Service Support Update, Bob Simon
- Spectrum Scale CCR Internals, Ralf Eberhard
- Spectrum Scale Policy “Best Practices”, Marc Kaplan
- Composable Infrastructure for Technical Computing, Ulf Troppens
- System Health, Performance Monitoring & Call Home, Mathias Dietz
- NCAR HPC Network Environment, Zach Mance
- Multi-cloud with Transparent Cloud Tiering, Christopher D. Maestas
- Using Vagrant to setup Scale Environments, Christopher D. Maestas
- Lenovo HPC Storage Update, Michael Hennecke
Spectrum Scale User Group @ London (April)
- Opening & welcome – Simon Thompson, Claire O’Toole, Ted Hoover
- Update Scale (video)/ ESS / Support (video) – Mathias Dietz & Chris Maestas
- MultiCloud Transparent Cloud Tiering (video) – Rob Basham
- Shared NVMe for High Performance Spectrum Scale Clusters (video)- Stuart Campbell
- User Talk – EBI MMAP issues (video – both speakers) – Jordi Valls / Sven Oehme
- GxFS Storage Appliance at Karlsruher Institute of Technology (video) – Jan Erik Sundermann
- Tooling Scale – Automation
- R&S VSA (Virtual storage access) Reliable fault tolerant storage in Broadcast (video) – Oliver Gappa
- Novel TCT: A brief demo on using TCT with alternative cloud gateways – Laurence Horrocks-Barlow
- Ten commandments of good I/O – Rosemary Francis
- Scientific Computing & Storage at The Francis Crick Institute – Michael Holliday
- Mixing storage systems in Spectrum Scale – Migrations & pools stories – Luis Bolinches
- File System Audit Logging / Running Spectrum Scale in a Vagrant environment – Chris Maestas
- AFM Deep Dive – Tuning and debugging – Venkateswara Puvvada
- User Talk – QMUL – Peter Childs
- Sponsor Talk – Lenovo – Michael Hennecke
- User Talk – MAX IV – Andreas Mattsson
- Sponsor Talk – DDN – Vic Cornell
- Cognititive, ML, Hortonworks – Yong ZY Zheng
Spectrum Scale User Group @ SC Asia, Singapore (March)
- Chris Schlipalius – CwS on Spectrum Scale POC
- Christopher Maestas – Securing your data with Spectrum Scale
- Frank Kramer – IBM Data Management for ADAS
- Guanglei Li – IBM Spectrum Scale: Support update, common issues, best practice
- J D Zeeman – SSUG Singapore IBM Genomics Blueprint
- Jose Higino – An ESS implementation in a Tier 1 HPC Centre Maximising Performance – the NeSI Experience
- Par Hettinga – HDP with IBM Spectrum Scale
- Sven Oehme – ESS in CORAL project update
- Gong Wei- A Unified Data Platform for Diversified Analytic Solutions
2017
Spectrum Scale User Group @ CIUK, Manchester, UK (December)
- Opening & Welcome, Simon Thompson, Claire O’Toole (User Group)
- Spectrum Scale v5.0 Highlights, Daniel Kidger, IBM
- IBM Spectrum Scale Blueprint for Genomics Medicine Workloads – Genomic workloads, Ulf Troppens, IBM
- Research Data Storage Platform, Robert Horton, ICR
- High Performance IT, John Brooks, Red Bull Technology
Spectrum Scale User Group @ SC17, Denver, USA (November)
- Opening & Welcome, Kristy Kallback-Rose, Bob Oesterlin (User Group), Doris Conti (IBM)
- Spectrum Scale Update, Scott Fadden
- ESS Update, Scott Fadden
- Ask me anything, Carl Zetie
- IO-500, George Markomanolis
- Customer talk – Max Dellbrück Center, Alf Wachsmann
- Customer talk – University of Pennsylvania Medical, Anand Srinivasan
- Live Debug Session, Tomer Perry
- Customer talk – DESY / European XFEL, Martin Gasthuber
- Customer talk – University of Birmingham, Simon Thompson
- Fast Restripe FS, Hai Zhong Zhou
- Transparent Cloud Tiering, Rob Basham
- High Performance Data Analysis (incl customer), Piyush Chaudhary
- Performance Enhancements for CORAL, Sven Oehme
Spectrum Scale User Group Meeting, Manchester, UK (May)
Day 1
- Opening & Welcome – Simon Thompson (UG), Michael Daubman (IBM)
- Spectrum Scale Update – Ulf Troppens (IBM)
- ESS Update – Christopher Maestas (IBM)
- Sponsor Talk 1 – Ellexus: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage: an I/O profiling case study – Dr. Rosemary Francis
- Customer Talk – “The UK Research Data Facility” – Kieran Leach (EPCC)
- Sponsor Talk 2 – DDN: AFM Case Studies – Vic Cornell
- Spectrum Scale Cloud Deployments – Christopher Maestas (IBM)
- Licensing – Carl Zetie (IBM)
- Sponsor Talk 3 – Arcastream: Automated Data Curation and Discovery with Spectrum Scale and ArcaStream – Jez Tucker & Barry Evans
- Problem Determination – Simon Lorenz (IBM)
- Best Practices – Olaf Weiser (IBM)
Day 2
- Integration with Spectrum Protect for Backup – Fabian Kulhl (IBM), Additional Material
- Docker Support / Update on metadata sizing – Olaf Weiser (IBM), Indulis Bernsteins (IBM)
- CES Authentication / Spectrum Scale Security (Meet the Devs) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM)
- 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)
- Automation of Storage Services – Nils Haustein (IBM)
- Container and Virtualisation support (Cloud) – John Lewars (IBM)
- HDFS Support (Meet the Devs) – Piyush Chaudrhary (IBM)
- Sponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: RoCE and Spectrum Scale – RDMA support and performance over Ethernet – Darren Harkins
- Customer Talk – AFM Migration – The road to perdition – Mark Roberts (AWE) & Laurence Horrocks-Barlow (OCF)
- Sponsor Talk 5 – Seagate: Accelerating Spectrum Scale with an Intelligent IO Manager – Ray Coetzee, Additional Material
- Customer Talk – Scale out storage systems to support Research and Cloud – Simon Thompson (University of Birmingham)
- Research Topics – Sven Oehme (IBM)
Spectrum Scale Two-day Users Group Meeting, NERSC, Berkeley, California (April 4-5)
April 4
- Welcome (Doris Conti, Bob Oesterlin, Kristy Kallback-Rose)
- Spectrum Scale & ESS Update (Scott Fadden / Ulf Troppens)
- Problem Avoidance – Best Practices in the Field (Brian Yaeger)
- Problem Determination – Deep Dive (Yuri Volobuev)
- Problem Determination – What’s New? (Matthias Dietz)
April 5
- Spectrum Scale Cloud Deployments (Christopher Maestas)
- Hadoop Integration and Support for HortonWorks HDP (Ted Hoover)
- Staging data between GPFS and the Burst Buffer (David Paul)
- GPFS-HPSS-Integration (Kirill Lozinskiy)
- Life Sciences and Next Generation Sequencing with Spectrum Scale (Madhav Ponamgi)
- Cloud and Virtualization Discussion (John Lewars)
- Transparent Cloud Tiering – Introduction and Use Cases (Rob Basham)
- Spectrum Protect on Spectrum Scale (Jason Basler)
- Catching rogue jobs before they overload the storage (Rosemary Francis (Ellexus)
- A unified framework for scientific data management (Lisa Gerhardt) (NERSC)
- Spectrum Scale in analytic ecosystems With AFM (James McKenna) (DDN)
- REST API (Ulf Troppens)
- Application Integration with Containers (Dean Hildebrand)
- Challenges in Tracing (Vasily Tarasov)
IBM User Group, Ehningen, Germany
- Welcome (Doris Conti)
- Spectrum Scale Update (Ulf Troppens)
- ESS Update (Falk Steinbrueck)
- SAP HANA@Bosch, An Infrastructure Story (Volker Fischer)
- Spectrum Scale at Deutscher Wetterdienst (Manuel Reiter)
- Performance Optimization for Risk Management (Adrian Immler, Marco Pighetti)
- SmartStorage for Mixed Workloads (Alexander Tilgner, Alexander von Keyserlingk)
- AFM Case Studies (Jan Heichler)
- TransparentCloudTiering_Proof-of-Concept ( Janusz Malka)
- Tape & Spectrum Scale (Stefan Neff)
- Flexible Storage for Spectrum Protect (Andre Gaschler, Stefan Schaedeli)
- Monitoring Spectrum Scale with Icinga2 & Nagios (Achim Christ, Alexander Saupp)
- News and Best Practices (Olaf Weiser)
- Spectrum Scale ILM and Spectrum Archive (Nils Haustein)
- Spectrum Scale Immutability (Nils Haustein)
- Spectrum Scale Hadoop HDFS Support (Ulf Troppens)
- AFM Introduction and Use Cases (Achim Christ, Karl Schulz)
- Explore the economics of IBM Storage Solutions using TCOnow (Roland Tretau)
- Backup of Spectrum Scale using Spectrum Archive (Dominic Mueller-Wicke)
- Automation of Storage Services (Nils Hasten)
- Spectrum Scale ReST API (Alexander Wolf-Reber)
- Spectrum Scale Support for Object, SwiftHLM and OpenStack (Harald Seipp, Simon Lorenz)
- HPC at automotive supplier (Jochen Zeller)
- Fast Interconnect for Spectrum Scale (Hilmar Beck)
- Lenovo Distributed Storage (Michael Hennecke)
- News from IBM Research (Sven Oehme)
2016
User Group @SC16, Salt Lake City, USA, November 13th 2016
- Opening Talk (Bob Oesterlin)
- The latest in IBM Spectrum Scale (Scott Fadden, IBM)
- Licensing Update (Doug O’Flaherty, IBM)
- ESS Updates (Steve Duersch, IBM)
- NASA NCCS Goddard: Big Data in HPC (Carrie Spear, Nasa)
- Nuance: Tiering to Object Storage (Bob Oesterlin, Nuance)
- Sponsor Talk (NetApp): IBM DCS Storage: The Ideal Building Block for Flexible Spectrum Scale (Matt Forney, Ennovar)
- Virginia Tech ARC: SANDisk IF150 (Brian Marshall, Virgina Tech ARC)
- NASA NCCS Goddard: Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB, (Aaron Knister, NASA Goddard)
- Spectrum Scale Enhancements for CORAL, (Sarp Oral, ORNL, Gautam Shah, IBM)
- News from IBM Research (Sven Oehme, Dean Hildebrand, IBM)
User Group@Argonne National Lab, USA, June 10th 2016
- IBM: Spectrum Scale and ESS Updates (Scott Fadden, IBM)
- IBM: Deep Dive – Hadoop Integration (Piyush Chaudhary, IBM)
- IBM: Deep Dive – Problem Determination (Teresa Swingler/Ben Randall, IBM)
- Nuance: Spectrum Scale Performance Center (Bob Oesterlin, Nuance)
- IBM: Spectrum Protect & Spectrum Scale Integration (Ron Henkhaus, IBM)
- Storage for ICCP, JD Maloney, NCSA
- GPFS with underlying ZFS block devices, Christopher Hoffman, Los Alamos National Lab
- ANL: AFM as a burst buffer (Gordon McPheeters, ANL)
- IBM: Deep Dive – AFM Enhancements (Scott Fadden, IBM)
- ANL: GHI (GPFS HPSS Integration) (Jack O’Connell, ANL)
- IBM: Spectrum Scale Research Update (Sven Oehme, IBM)
User Group 13, IBM South Bank, London, UK
- Zip containing all talks
- Opening & Welcome – Simon Thompson & Claire O’Toole
- Keynote talk – Doris Conti (no slides)
- 4.2 Roadmap & 2016 Priorities, Ulf Troppens
- Deep Dive – 4.2 GUI & Live Demo, Markus Rohwedder (no slides)
- Sponsor Talk 1 – Seagate: Using Spectrum Scale in the IoT World, Ray Coetzee
- Sponsor Talk 2 – ArcaStream: Python API & Demo, Jez Tucker
- User Talk 2 – Milk flows freely from London to Cardiff with AFM, Dave Goodbourn, Milk Visual Effects
- Sponsor Talk 3 – NetApp: HPC – How NetApp plays in this world, Molinder Toor
- User Talk 1 – NCAR’s Globally Accessible Data Environment, Pamela Gillman, NCAR
- Deep Dive – Hadoop Integration, Piyush Chaudhry
- Sponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: Accelerating storage functions in a co-design network, Darren Harkins
- Technical Deep Dive – Tiering to the Cloud / MC Store, Robert Basham
- Technical Deep Dive – Problem Determination Enhancements, Mathias Dietz
Licensing, David Cremise - Sponsor Talk 5 – OCF: Scale out NAS for the masses, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow
- Spectrum Scale ILM & Spectrum Archive, Nils Haustein (introductory)
- Metadata sizing / tuning, Indulis Bernsteins, Madhav Ponamgi (advanced)
- AFM Introduction and use cases, Madhav Ponamgi (introductory)
- Spectrum Protect Integration & Best Practices, Nils Haustein (Backup and HSM) (advanced)
- Encryption / Compression, Olaf Weiser, Yoann Lechevallier (introductory)
- Spectrum Protect with Spectrum Scale, Nils Haustein (advanced)
- A few words from IBM (room survey)
- Sponsor Talk 6 – DDN: Adventures in AFM, Vic Cornell
- Deep Dive – OpenStack Integration, Gauging Tapase
- Sponsor Talk 7 – IBM: Life Sciences, Frank Lee
- Sponsor Talk 8 – Lenovo, Michael Hennecke
- look into the future by IBM Research, Sven Oehme
IBM University, Rome April 2016
(This event was an IBM organised event in Italy, they have kindly agreed we can publish the slides)
IBM Spectrum Scale Expert workshop
(This event was an IBM organised event in Germany, they have kindly agreed we can publish the slides)
- IBM Storage Technical Strategy and Trends
- IBM Recent Updates and Outlook
- IBM Agile Collaboration with Customers
- IBM Cloudy Jigsaw Puzzles
- IBM Elastic Storage Server
- Large Scale Video Server PoC
- IBM Accelerating and simplifying backup
- IBM Spectrum Protect / Spectrum Scale Integration
- IBM Problem Determination
- IBM Using the GUI for Problem Determination
- IBM Spectrum Scale File Protocols
- IBM Licensing
- IBM File Workflow with AREMA
- IBM Spectrum Scale and Hadoop
- IBM OpenStack Integration
- IBM Spectrum Scale v4.2
- IBM Research
- IBM Cleversafe Overview Presentation
Meet the Devs, Oxford
SPXXL GPFS Workshop
2015
GPFSUG@CIUK, Coventry, UK
- IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2 – Patrick Byrne, Cameron McAllister, IBM
- How to Ruin a Perfectly Good GPFS file system – Vic Cornell, DDN
- The Unique Technical Benefits of an Engineered Solution for GPFS – Marc Roskow, Seagate
User Group @SC15, Austin, Texas
- GPFS-UG US chapter Overview – Kristy Kallback-Rose/Bob Oesterlin
- Spectrum Scale L2 Support – Andrew Giblon, IBM
- Roadmap & technical deep dive – Scott Fadden, IBM
- GUI Demo, Ben Randall, IBM (no slides)
- Product quality improvement updates – Hye-Young McCreary, IBM
- Performance Tuning & results with Latest ESS configurations – Matt Forney, Bernard Shen, Tonya Witherspoon, WSU/Ennovar
- The Hartree Centre, Past, present and future – Colin Morey, STFC
- Large Data Ingest Architecture – Martin Gasthuber, DESY
- Low Latency performance with Flash – Mark Weghorst, Travelport
- Batch System and I/O Monitoring with LLview – Wolfgang Frings , Jülich Supercomputing Centre
- Panel discussion “My favorite tool for managing Spectrum Scale is…” – Host: Douglas O’Flaherty, IBM, Panel: Bob Oesterlin, Nuance; Wolfgang Frings, Julich; Mark Weghorst, Travelport (no slides)
User Group 11, York, UK
- User Group Presentation – UG Board
- 4.1.1 Roadmap / High-level futures / Failure Events – Scott Fadden, IBM Technical Marketing
- Monitoring IBM Spectrum Scale using IBM Spectrum Control (VSC/TPC) – Christian Bolik, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Developer
- User Experience from University of Birmingham/CLIMB – Simon Thompson, C&IT Specialist – Research Computing University of Birmingham
- User Experience from National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) – Jason Hick
- AFM & Async DR Use Cases – Shankar Balasubramanian, IBM Software Development
- mmbackup + TSM Integration – Stefan Bender, IBM Software Development
- IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) performance update, protocol performance and sizing – Sven Oehme, IBM Scalable Storage Research
2014
GPFS @SC’14, New Orleans, Louisiana
- CLIMB, OpenStack and Elastic Storage – Simon Thompson, Research Computing, University of Birmingham
- The XSEDE Wide File System: XSEDE is a national network: eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery nEtwork, funded by the National Science Foundation.
- McGill University DataSTAR: The McGill HPC Centre and the Guillimin GPFS Data Storage and Archival Environment (DataSTAR)
- NCAR GPFS Monitoring Tools
User Group 10, IBM South Bank
- GPFS Performance Tuning – Sven Oehme, IBM Scalable Storage Research
- Numascale – Robin Harker, Numascale
2013
GPFS @SC’13, Denver, Colorado
- GPFS What’s New – Scott Fadden, IBM Technical Marketing
- GSS Update – Matt Drahzal, IBM
- GPFS Experiences from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) – William (Bill) E. Allcock, ALCF Director of Operations
- The GLADE Environment – Pamela Gillman, NCARManager, Data Analysis Services Group
User Group 8
- GPFS FPO – Dinesh Subrahveti, IBM
- GPFS OpenStack Integration – Dinesh Subrahveti, IBM
- SAMBA 4.0 & CTDB 2.0 – Michael Adam, Sernet
- SAMBA & GPFS Integration – Volke Lendeke, Sernet
- GPFS Native RAID & LTFS – Jim Roche, IBM