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Pizza fuels hands on meet up

Earlier this week on a sunny Manchester morning I hosted our second ‘meet the devs’ GPFS user group session. In February we met in London and had a very open discussion with a short demo. This session had different attendees in a different city, with different food and a different focus.

Our focus was hands on testing of the upcoming 4.1.1 release and specifically the protocol related work done in the UK. After some minimal slideware all attendees were provided some hardware and a GPFS development engineer. This was following pizza and coffee, which meant everyone was energised and ready.

What did we all learn? You can’t plan for fire alarms and using laptops for a demo to run virtual clusters with no network can be challenging! Enough said.

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Spectrum Scale (GPFS) User Group GPFS: Meet the Devs #2

The second Meet the GPFS Developers ‘coffee shop’ meet has been announced, ahead of the major GPFS UG meeting on 20th May.

The day will give members the opportunity to meet the developers and get hands on beta exploration and test of unreleased GPFS functions.

Date: 28th April 2015
Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Location: IBM, 3rd Floor, Maybrook House, 40 Blackfriars Street, Manchester M3 2EG

Agenda:
10:30 Introduction discussion
11:30 Beta session 1
12:30 Break for pizza (social chats with wider GPFS dev team in Manchester)
13:30 Beta session 2
14:45 Group discussion and feedback
15:30 End

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please register in advance with Claire Robson, GPFS User Group Secretary via email GPFS UG Secretary

We hope to see you there!

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Meet the devs kicks off … am I a GPFS imposter?

This morning I set off from Manchester to London to run my first ‘Meet the Devs’ GPFS User Group session concerned about two things: Firstly, my wife is due for our second child in 5 weeks – let’s hope she doesn’t go into labour whilst I’m a few hours away. Secondly, I felt the fear of being an imposter, accompanied by the adrenaline rush I get when I go on stage and perform. Am I really in a position to have a fruitful meeting with a set of very experienced and capable GPFS users? Am I prepared enough? Am I a GPFS imposter?

Think. Prepare. Rehearse. And breathe.

I suddenly felt a lot better. But, I’m a manager these days and as a result less hands on, I’ve never used GPFS as a real user/administrator and my background is C++ development not in system administrator or architecting solutions.

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GPFS: Meet the Devs

Hello all

Our first Meet the GPFS Developers ‘coffee shop’ meet is in a few weeks.

This is an opportunity to see what the developers are working on and to chat directly with them in a small intimate group. 11 places are available.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Date: 18th February 2015
Time: 11:00 – 14:00
Location: IBM Southbank, London, SE1 9PZ

To attend, please register your interest to the GPFS UG Secretary

Full directions to Southbank will be sent to confirmed attendees.