Save the Date! Scale User Group @ SC2024 November 17th, 2024

REGISTRATION LINK: Scale Users Group, https://ibm.biz/SC24_ScaleUserGroupMeeting

There will be a Scale User Group event in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on the afternoon of November 17th, 2024. We will have an exciting agenda and access to experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.

The agenda will cover a variety of topics including:

  • Updates from the user community
  • IBM Storage Scale Development updates – strategy, roadmap, performance updates
  • Updates from NVIDIA
  • Partner updates

It will be held at:

The Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta
210 Peachtree St. NW,
Atlanta, GA 30303

REGISTRATION LINK: Scale Users Group, https://ibm.biz/SC24_ScaleUserGroupMeeting

Customer Reception, https://ibm.biz/SC24_IBM_Reception

NYC 2024 – Scale Day!

IBM Storage Scale User’s Group October 1, 2024

There will be a Storage Scale User Meeting in New York City, NY, USA. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights from the user community, development, research, NVIDIA, SuperMicro and DST, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.

Agenda highlights:

  • Storage Scale strategy
  • NVIDIA AI Solutions with IBM Storage Scale
  • IBM Research Vela and Blue Vela systems for AI
  • Supermicro and the IBM Scale POD
  • Health Monitoring and Call Home Improvements
  • Networking with Scale & Scale Storage Systems

The detailed agenda can be found at the registration page. Please register here!

Introducing SSUG::Digital

We’ve gone digital for a series of Spectrum Scale user group talks! As we’ve had to cancel our in-person events, we’ve been working out how we can do digital content in a way that works for the user group. We’ll be running a series of digital webinars along the lines of the talks we’d normally have at SSUG events hosted by the Spectrum Scale user group people.

During the series we’ll be pulling in the types of talks we’d have at our events and we’re sure you’ll see a number of familiar names and faces in our speaker line-up – as well as some new faces too! We’ve been working hard with IBM to work out the format and content of the events and whilst it might take a few goes to get the format right, we’re hopeful it will work out well.

Each of the events will be hosted by a member of the SSUG committee and we’ll have digital Q&A live during the event. We plan to post the videos on our Youtube channel and post the questions and answers on the user group website along with the slide decks. Anything we can’t answer during the talk, we’ll take away and try and get a response from afterwards!

Anyone can join the SSUG::Digital series using the links on each event page. We know it won’t be the same as the in-person events, but we hope you’ll join in and participate in the on-line series. We hope to run a talk every couple of weeks, but the schedule will be driven a little by how well people engage and speaker availability.

You can find details of all our Expert Talks on the SSUG website.

Due to the tooling we’re using, only the presenter and Q&A panel hosts will be able to speak, but we you can ask questions in the live Q&A chat.

We appreciate as a global group this timing doesn’t work for everyone, but as a lot of the speakers are based in the US and Europe…! And we will be posting the videos of the talks shortly after each session.

Save the date … 2019

We’ve just added the events we have planned so far for 2019, so check them out and pencil them in your diary. All dates so far are published in the events calendar. Please note that dates are currently tentative, once a registration link and agenda are posted, then they are confirmed.
There may be a few more events added to the calendar throughout the year and we always post on the mailing list details of registration.

Spectrum Scale UG @Computing Insight UK Agenda available

The Spectrum Scale user group will be meeting at Computing Insight UK (formerly MEW) in December 2015 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. The agenda is now available:

  • 10:00 Welcome & Introductions (Simon Thompson, GPFS UG Chair & Claire O’Toole, GPFS UG Secretary
  • 10:05 – Introducing Spectrum Scale 4.2 (Patrick Byrne, Cameron McAllister & Sarfraz Nadeem, IBM UK labs)
    • GUI demo
    • New features – compression and QoS
    • Where we are heading next with 4.2.1 onwards … problem determination focus
  • 11:00 – How to ruin a perfectly good GPFS file system (Vic Cornell, DDN)
  • 11:20 – The Unique Technical Benefits of an Engineered Solution for GPFS (Chris Weeden, Seagate)
  • 11:40 – Networking, Discussion & Feedback
  • 12:00 – Finish

Please note you must be registered for CIUK to attend this meeting.