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Spectrum Scale User Group Meeting – NYC – New York Genome Center

Spectrum Scale User Group – NYC

October 24th, 2018

The New York Genome Center

101 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013 First Floor Auditorium

 

Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-spectrum-scale-user-group-nyc-tickets-49786782607

 

08:45-09:00 Coffee & Registration

09:00-09:15 Welcome

09:15-09:45 What is new in IBM Spectrum Scale?

09:45-10:00 What is new in ESS?

10:00-10:20 How does CORAL help other workloads?

10:20-10:40 — Break —

10:40-11:00 Customer Talk – The New York Genome Center

11:00-11:20 Spinning up a Hadoop cluster on demand

11:20-11:40 Customer Talk – Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

11:40-12:10 Spectrum Scale Network Flow

12:10-13:00 — Lunch —

13:00-13:40 Special Announcement and Demonstration

13:40-14:00 Multi-cloud Transparent Cloud Tiering

14:00-14:20 Customer Talk – Princeton University

14:20-14:40 AI Reference Architecture

14:40-15:00 Updates on Container Support

15:00-15:20 Customer Talk – TBD

15:20-15:40 — Break —

15:40-16:10 IBM Spectrum Scale Tuning and Troubleshooting

16:10-16:40 Service Update

16:40-17:10 Open Forum

17:10-17:30 Wrap-Up

17:30- Social Event

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SSUG USA 2017 – April 4-5th, Berkeley, Ca – Registration now open!

Registration for the Spring Spectrum Scale User group meeting is now open. It’s April 4th-5th at NERSC in Berkeley, Ca. Agenda details will be filled in soon, but we have 2 full days of talks:

Tuesday, April 4th

09:00-10:00 Registration/Coffee/Networking
10:00-10:30 Welcome - Bob Oesterlin, Kristy Kallback, Doris Conti 
10:30-11:30 Spectrum Scale & ESS Update - Scott Fadden/Puneet Chaudhary
11:30-12:30 Problem Avoidance - Best Practices in the Field - IBM Support
12:30-13:30 Lunch and Networking
13:30-15:30 Problem Determination - Deep Dive - Yuri Volobuev
15:30-16:00 Break/Networking
16:00-17:00 Problem Determination - What's New? - Matthias Dietz
17:00-18:00 Bring your favorite problem or performance issue. We will fix it now!

Wednesday April 5th

08:30-09:00 Coffee and Networking
09:00-10:00 Transparent Cloud Tiering - Introduction and Use Cases (Meet the Devs) - Nikhil Khandelwal or Rob Basham, Life Sciences and Next Generation Sequencing with Spectrum Scale (Solutions)

10:00-11:00 AFM - Introduction and Use Cases (Meet the Devs) - Scott Fadden, Spectrum Protect on Spectrum Scale (Solutions) - Jason Basler
11:00-12:00 Meet the Devs - IBM Development, Hadoop Integration and Support for HortonWorks HDP (Solutions) - Ted Hoover
12:00-13:00 Lunch and Networking
13:00-13:20 Customer/Partner Talk
13:20-13:40 Customer/Partner Talk
13:40-14:00 Customer/Partner Talk
14:00-14:30 Break
14:30-15:00 Challenges in Tracing - Vasily Tarasov
15:00-15:30 Application Integration with Containers - Dean Hildebrand
15:30-16:00 Wrap up - Bob Oesterlin, Kristy Kallback, Doris Conti

We have a few open slots for short (20 min) user presentations – let us know if you are interested.

Space is limited and sign-up deadline is March 24th! Sign up early.

https://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/data-analytics/spectrum-user-group-meeting/

Look forward to seeing you there!

Bob Oesterlin and Kristy Kallback-Rose, SSUG USA Co-principals

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Spectrum Scale User Group (USA) Meeting – June 10th

GPFS/Spectrum Scale Users Group Meeting at Argonne National Lab (ANL) – June 10th.

Registration is now open!

Reserve your place here (no charge): https://www.regonline.com/Spectrumscalemeeting

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 27, 2016

Thanks to Argonne for hosting this event. Developers and Engineers from IBM will be at the meeting to cover topics, and open dialogue between IBM and customers will be encouraged, as usual no marketing pitches!

Spectrum Scale Users Group Meeting
Friday, June 10, 2016 9:00 AM – 5:15 PM (Central Time)
Argonne National Laboratory
Northgate Road and Outer Circle
TCS Center, Bldg 240, Room 1416
Lemont, Illinois 60439
United States

AGENDA

09:00-09:30 Opening
09:30-10:00 IBM: Spectrum Scale and ESS Updates (Scott Fadden, IBM)
10:00-10:30 IBM: Deep Dive – Hadoop Integration (Piyush Chaudhary, IBM)

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 IBM: Deep Dive – Problem Determination (Teresa Swingler/Ben Randall, IBM)
12:00-12:30 Nuance: Spectrum Scale Performance Center (Bob Oesterlin, Nuance)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 IBM: Spectrum Protect & Spectrum Scale Integration (Ron Henkhaus, IBM)
14:00-14:30 Site Presentation TBD
14:30-15:00 Site Presentation TBD

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-16:00 ANL: AFM as a burst buffer (Gordon McPheeters, ANL)
16:00-16:30 IBM: Deep Dive – AFM Enhancements (Scott Fadden, IBM)
16:30-17:00 ANL: GHI (GPFS HPSS Integration) (Jack O’Connell, ANL)
17:00-17:15 Closing comments and Open Forum for Questions

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GPFS/Spectrum Scale Upcoming US Events – Save the Dates

We’d like to announce two upcoming US GPFS/Spectrum Scale Events. One on the east coast, one in the midwest.

If you have any questions, please contact:
Kristy Kallback-Rose usa-principal@gpfsug.org or Bob Oesterlin usa-co-principal@gpfsug.org
GPFS Users Group – USA Chapter – Principal & Co-principal

GPFS/Spectrum Scale Day at the SPXXL conference in NYC – May 26th (full day event)

https://www.spxxl.org/?q=New-York-City-2016
Developers and Engineers from IBM will be at the meeting to cover topics, and open dialogue between IBM and customers will be encouraged. More details about the agenda, hotel and other logistics will come later this month.

Tentative Agenda:

  • 10 reasons for upgrading from GPFS 3.5 to Spectrum Scale 4.2.1
  • Enhancements for CORAL from IBM
  • Panel discussion with customers, topic TBD
  • AFM and integration with Spectrum Protect
  • Best practices for GPFS or Spectrum Scale Tuning.
  • At least one site update

Location:
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029

GPFS/Spectrum Scale Users Group Meeting at Argonne National Lab (ANL) – June 10th (full day event)

Thanks to Argonne for hosting this event. Developers and Engineers from IBM will be at the meeting to cover topics, and open dialogue between IBM and customers will be encouraged, as usual no marketing pitches!

Location: Argonne National Lab
More details and final agenda will come soon!

Tentative Agenda:

9:00a-12:30p
9-9:30a – Opening Remarks
9:30-10a Deep Dive – Update on ESS
10a-11a Deep Dive – Problem Determination (30 min/Panel 30 min?)
11-11:30 Break
11:30a-Noon – Deep Dive – Protect & Scale integration
Noon-12:30p HDFS/Hadoop

12:30 – 1:30p Lunch

1:30p-5:00p
1:30 – 2:00p IBM AFM Update
2:00-2:30p ANL: AFM as a burst buffer
2:30-3:00p ANL: GHI (GPFS HPSS Integration)
3:00-3:30p Break
3:30p – 4:00p LANL: ? or other site presontations
4:00-4:30p Nuance: GPFS Performance Sensors Deployment Experiences
4:30p -5:00p Closing comments and Open Forum for Questions

5:00 – ?
Beer hunting?