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UK 2018 User Group Event
18th April 2018 - 19th April 2018
FreeThe UK user group for 2018 is taking place on 18th & 19th April 2018 at IBM Client Centre, London.
The agenda for the day is listed below. Presentations are linked, where available from the talk title. Videos of the talks are available at in a YouTube playlist.
Wednesday 18th April 2018
| 09:00 | 10:00 | ARRIVALS & REGISTRATION | |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Opening & welcome | Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole / Ted Hoover |
| 10:30 | 11:15 | Update Scale (video) / ESS / Support (video) | Mathias Dietz & Chris Maestas |
| 11:15 | 11:40 | MultiCloud Transparent Cloud Tiering (video) | Rob Basham |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Sponsor Talk E8 | Stuart Campbell |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 | 13:20 | User Talk – EBI and IBM update – MMAP issues (video – both talks) | Jordi Valls / Sven Oehme |
| 13:20 | 13:40 | Sponsor Talk NEC | Jan Erik Sundermann |
| 13:40 | 14:00 | Tooling Scale – Automation | Open Discussion |
| 14:00 | 14:20 | User Talk – Rohde&Schwarz | Oliver Gappa |
| 14:20 | 14:40 | Sponsor Talk – OCF | Laurence Horrocks-Barlow |
| 14:40 | 15:10 | BREAK | |
| 15:10 | 15:30 | Sponsor Talk – Ellexus | Dr. Rosemary Francis |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | User Talk – Scientific Computing & Storage at The Francis Crick Institute | Michael Holliday |
| 15:50 | 16:35 | Mixing storage systems in Spectrum Scale – Migrations & pools stories | Luis Bolinches |
| 16:35 | 17:20 | Burning Issues Discussion | Carl Zetie |
| 17:20 | 17:30 | WRAP UP | Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole |
In the evening there is a networking/social event (food + drinks) at a local restaurant. Further details will be provided on the day.
Thursday 19th April 2018
| 08:30 | 09:00 | ARRIVALS | |
| 09:00 | 10:00 | AWS Installation Live Demo & Container Update | John Lewars |
| Composable Infrastructure for Genomics Medicine Workloads | Ulf Troppens | ||
| GUI capabilities in multi-cluster setups like AFM and cross-cluster mount | Markus Rohwedder | ||
| 10:00 | 11:00 | File System Audit Logging / Running Spectrum Scale in a Vagrant environment | Chris Maestas |
| REST API – Update & Deep Dive in Health Monitoring and Zimon Queries | Andreas Koeninger | ||
| AFM Deep Dive – Tuning and debugging | Venkateswara Puvvada | ||
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Scale on Z / Mainframe | Susanne Wintenberger |
| Network Flows | John Lewars | ||
| System Health, Performance Monitoring & Call Home | Mathias Dietz | ||
| 12:00 | 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 | 13:20 | User Talk – QMUL | Peter Childs |
| 13:20 | 13:40 | Sponsor Talk – Lenovo | Michael Hennecke |
| 13:40 | 14:20 | The advent of NVMe. What does this mean for Scale? | Sven Oehme |
| 14:20 | 14:50 | BREAK | |
| 14:50 | 15:10 | User Talk – MAX IV | Andreas Mattsson |
| 15:10 | 15:30 | Sponsor Talk – DDN | Vic Cornell |
| 15:30 | 16:30 | Cognititive, ML, Hortonworks | Yong ZY Zheng |
| 16:30 | 16:40 | CLOSE | Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole |
With thanks to our sponsors for their support.
