Independent User group for users, VARs, BPs and developers of Spectrum Scale
Please save the date for a two-day user group meeting in Manchester, UK.
Date: Tuesday 9th & Wednesday 10th May 2017 Venue: Central Manchester, UK
Details of the agenda and for registration will follow here very shortly and via the Spectrum Scale user group mailing list.
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
There is an IBM organized Spectrum Scale User Meeting in Germany. Though, agenda and spirit are very close to the user group organized events. Conference language is German. This is a two-day event. There is an introduction day for Spectrum Scale beginners a day before on March 7.
Please register, if you plan to join:
https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp312.nsf/Registration.xsp?openform&seminar=Z9AH7POE
Introduction day:
https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp312.nsf/Registration.xsp?openform&seminar=3ACDRTOE
Agenda
Mittwoch – 8. März 2017
09:00-10:00 Anmeldung und Networking
10:00-10:30 Begrüßung
10:30-11:10 Spectrum Scale Update
11:10-11:40 ESS Update
11:40-12:00 Bosch: SAP HANA auf ESS
12:00-13:00 Mittagessen und Networking
13:00-13:25 NEC: Spectrum Scale beim Deutschen Wetterdienst
13:25-13:45 Deutsche Bank: Leistungsoptimierung für Risk Management
13:45-14:05 m.a.x. it: SmartStorage – Software Defined Storage für mixed Workloads
14:05-14:25 DDN: AFM Use Cases
14:25-14:45 DESY: Transparent Cloud Tiering Proof-of-Concept
14:45-15:15 Kaffee und Networking
15:15-15:45 Tape & Spectrum Scale
15:45-16:05 Kundenvortrag: Flexibler Speicher für Spectrum Protect
16:05-16:50 Problem Determination
16:50-17:50 Bericht aus Kundenprojekten
17:50-18:00 Meet the Devs
18:00-20:00 Get Together
Donnerstag – 9. März 2017
08:30-09:00 Kaffee und Networking
09:00-10:00 1. Breakout Session
1) Spectrum Archive und Spectrum Scale ILM (Einführung)
2) Lizensierung und TCOnow
3) GUI und REST API (Meet the Devs)
10:00-11:00 2. Breakout Session
1) Hadoop Integration (Einführung); Immutability (Einführung)
2) Spectrum Protect Integration (Fortgeschrittene)
3) NFS und SMB (Meet the Devs)
11:00-12:00 3. Breakout Session+
1) AFM (Einführung); Einsatz von AFM bei CSI
2) Automation von Storage Services (Fortgeschrittene)
3) Object und SwiftHLM (Meet the Devs)
12:00-13:00 Mittagessen und Networking
13:00-13:25 SVA: Ein Einblick in HPC @ Bosch
13:25-13:45 Mellanox: Warum eigentlich High Speed Interconnect?
13:45-14:05 Lenovo: Distributed Storage Solution (DSS) for Spectrum Scale
14:05-14:30 Kaffee und Networking
14:30-15:30 Bericht von IBM Almaden Storage Research
15:30-16:00 Abschlussdiskussion
Please save the date for a two-day user group meeting at NERSC in Berkeley, California.
Date: April 4-5, 2017
Venue: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (nersc.gov) Berkeley, California, USA
Details of the agenda and for registration will follow shortly here and via the Spectrum Scale user group mailing list.
The Spectrum Storage Sweden User Group Meeting #6 is an IBM hosted event which includes a track on IBM Spectrum Scale. Here is the report which was sent by Mathias Persson Ölander.
For the 6th time we had the opportunity to host a Spectrum Storage User Group meeting in Sweden. It’s the evolution of the classic Tivoli User Group (Spectrum Protect), now including the full Spectrum Storage portfolio (with a focus on Spectrum Virtualize, Spectrum Control, Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Protect). 150+ attendees joined the meeting at IBM on November 16-17th from all of Sweden, a few guys from Norway and our international speakers from every corner of the world including New Zealand.
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