Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, this in-person event is cancelled. We hope to bring a digital version!
This year’s Spectrum Scale user group event has a fantastic agenda of Spectrum Scale experts and will take place over 2-days, again at IBM’s client centre overlooking the River Thames in London. 2020 sees 10 years of the user group in the UK! The event will provide you with the opportunity to hear the latest Spectrum Scale updates from filesystem experts as well as hear from other users on their experiences. Similar to previous years, we’re also holding smaller interactive workshops to allow for more detailed discussion.
In addition to the main event, we’re also running a new user day on 12th May. Please note that registration for the new user day is separate.
Sponsors
This event wouldn’t be possible without the support of our sponsors and we thank them for their support!
Agenda
The agenda is currently being developed, the outline agenda to give an indication of timings is given below but is subject to change.
Day 1 – May 13th 2020
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 60 | 09:00 | 10:00 | ARRIVALS & REGISTRATION | |
| 30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Opening, welcome & pop quiz | Simon Thompson (Chair) |
| 60 | 12:00 | 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 30 | 14:45 | 15:15 | BREAK | |
| 40 | 16:50 | 17:30 | Meet the Devs - Ask us Anything | All |
| 10 | 17:30 | 17:40 | WRAP UP | Simon Thompson (Chair) |
| 135 | 18:30 | 22:45 | User Group Networking / Dinner | Registration and Badge/Lanyard required |
Day 2 – May 14th 2020
| Start | End | Topic | Speaker |
| 30 | 08:30 | 09:00 | ARRIVALS | |
| 30 | 08:30 | 09:00 | Spectrum Scale Licensing | |
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| 60 | 11:00 | 12:00 | | |
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| 60 | 12:00 | 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 30 | 13:00 | 13:30 | | |
| 30 | 13:30 | 14:00 | | |
| 30 | 14:00 | 14:30 | BREAK | |
| 20 | 14:30 | 14:50 | | |
| 20 | 14:50 | 15:10 | | |
| 20 | 15:10 | 15:30 | | |
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| 10 | 15:50 | 16:00 | CLOSE | Simon Thompson (Chair) |
The UK/World Wide 2019 Spectrum Scale user group is planned to take place on 8th and 9th May, once again overlooking the River Thames at IBM’s South Bank Client Centre.
The draft agenda for the event is posted below and has a mix of IBM, customer and sponsor talks. This year we have a particular focus on AI with Spectrum Scale and it promises to be another great two days.
Thanks to our sponsors, we’re able to run an evening dinner/networking event. We’ll provide more details on this on the day, but make sure you plan to attend our evening event!
Agenda
Day 1: 8th May:
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 60 | 09:00 | 10:00 | ARRIVALS & REGISTRATION | |
| 15 | 10:00 | 10:15 | Opening & welcome | Simon Thompson (Chair) / Ted Hoover (IBM) |
| 25 | 10:15 | 10:40 | Spectrum Scale: The past, the present, the future | Wayne Sawdon (IBM) |
| 25 | 10:40 | 11:05 | Accelerating AI workloads with IBM Spectrum Scale | Ted Hoover (IBM) |
| 20 | 11:05 | 11:25 | Sponsor Talk [NVIDIA]: Doing large scale AI faster – scale innovation with multi-node-multi-GPU computing and a scaling data pipeline | Miguel Martínez (NVIDIA) |
| 25 | 11:25 | 11:50 | AI ecosystem and solutions with IBM Spectrum Scale | Piyush Chaudhary (IBM) |
| 10 | 11:50 | 12:00 | Meet the devs | Ulf Troppens (IBM) |
| 60 | 12:00 | 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 30 | 13:00 | 13:30 | Spectrum Scale Update | Puneet Chaudhary |
| 15 | 13:30 | 13:45 | ESS Update | Puneet Chaudhary |
| 20 | 13:45 | 14:05 | Customer Talk - Why Spectrum Scale, a Customer View | Mark Vilensky (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| 20 | 14:05 | 14:25 | Sponsor Talk [DDN]: "Optimizing Storage Stacks for AI" | Sven Oehme |
| 20 | 14:25 | 14:45 | Sponsor Talk [Lenovo] - "Storage, Fast and Slow - Lenovo updates from both ends of the storage hierarchy" | Michael Hennecke |
| 30 | 14:45 | 15:15 | BREAK | |
| 15 | 15:15 | 15:30 | Support Update | Kai Korkow (IBM) |
| 20 | 15:30 | 15:50 | New Storage Options for Spectrum Scale | Luis Bolinches (IBM) |
| 20 | 15:50 | 16:10 | Customer Talk - Why Spectrum Scale, a Customer View | Patrick Dekkers (Amsterdam UMC Locactie VUmc) |
| 20 | 16:10 | 16:30 | Sponsor Talk [e8 Storage]: E8 Shared NVMe for High Performance Spectrum Scale Clusters | Stuart Campbell (e8 Storage) / Peter Childs (QMUL) |
| 20 | 16:30 | 16:50 | Sponsor Talk [Mellanox] : Low Latency Ethernet Storage Fabrics | Gadi Godanyan (Mellanox Technologies) |
| 40 | 16:50 | 17:30 | Meet the Devs - Ask us Anything | All |
| 10 | 17:30 | 17:40 | WRAP UP | Simon Thompson (Chair) |
| 135 | 18:30 | 22:45 | User Group Networking / Dinner | Registration and Badge/Lanyard required |
During the afternoon, we will also be running a breakout session “Getting Started with Spectrum Scale”. This is intended for newer users of Spectrum Scale and will be run subject to demand.
Day 2: 9th May:
| Start | End | Topic | Speaker |
| 30 | 08:30 | 09:00 | ARRIVALS | |
| 30 | 08:30 | 09:00 | Spectrum Scale Licensing | Carl Zetie (IBM) |
| 60 | 09:00 | 10:00 | AI at Scale at the example of Autonomous Driving (Beginner)
IBM Aspera Sync for Spectrum Scale | Nils Haustein (IBM) |
| | | Cloud Update
Spectrum Scale Support for Container | Harald Seipp (IBM) |
| | | Towards Proactive Service with Call Home
Spectrum Scale Reliability, Availability und Serviceability | Mathias Dietz (IBM) |
| 60 | 10:00 | 11:00 | Spectrum Scale installation and upgrade with Install Toolkit | Kedar Karmarkar (IBM) |
| | | Tiering to tape with Spectrum Archive | Khanh Ngo (IBM) |
| | | Spectrum Scale Watch Folder
Lessons from the field | Olaf Weiser (IBM)
Kai Korkow (IBM) / Luis Bolinches (IBM) |
| 60 | 11:00 | 12:00 | Overview: Spectrum Scale support for NFS and SMB
Spectrum Scale Best Practices for Snapshots | Ulf Troppens (IBM)
Kedar Karmarkar (IBM) |
| | | Spectrum Scale Policy Engine: Introduction and Use Cases | Nils Haustein (IBM) |
| | | Spectrum Scale Network Flow | John Lewars (IBM) |
| 60 | 12:00 | 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 30 | 13:00 | 13:30 | Lightning Talks - My favourite/worst Spectrum Scale feature | All - including attendees |
| 30 | 13:30 | 14:00 | Memory Consumption in Spectrum Scale | John Lewars (IBM) |
| 30 | 14:00 | 14:30 | BREAK | |
| 20 | 14:30 | 14:50 | Customer Talk - Migrating Spectrum Scale Filesystems with minimal downtime | Luke Sudbery (University of Birmingham) |
| 20 | 14:50 | 15:10 | Sponsor Talk [OCF]: Atempo - Large Filesystem Migration & Backup | Thomas Ahrens (Atempo) |
| 20 | 15:10 | 15:30 | Customer Talk - Experience with Spectrum Scale AFM | Alvise Dorigo (PSI) |
| 20 | 15:30 | 15:50 | High Performance Tier | Wayne Sawdon (IBM) |
| 10 | 15:50 | 16:00 | CLOSE | Simon Thompson (Chair) |
This event is sponsored by IBM, OCF, e8 Storage, Lenovo, DDN Storage, Mellanox Technologies and NVIDIA.
That’s a wrap!
Yes, we’ve made it to the end of another successful Spectrum Scale user group! This year has been our most highly attended group with over 110 registrations and around a 90% attendance rate. We had representation from 56 organisations and delegates from 13 countries as well as 29 speakers over 28 sessions. A big thank you goes out to all our IBM, sponsor and user speakers.
For 2018, we headed back to London and the IBM Client Centre London on the South Bank. The client centre team rightly deserve our thanks – where nothing was too much trouble for them. Finding us cables to plug our streaming kit and generally making sure the logistics of the venue were all dealt with.
Continue reading “Spectrum Scale UK April 2018 report”
Links to the live streams from the UK April 2018 meeting are here!
Spectrum Scale UK User group, 18th, 19th April 2018.
Videos are being edited into separate talks and will be posted in the YouTube Playlist.
18th April
19th April
Well that’s it for the user group in 2017! The last event of the year was held as part of Computing Insights UK (CIUK) in Manchester this week. CIUK is a much smaller event that SC or ISC, but its where the user group’s roots are. In fact, the user group on 12th December 2017, was the 7th birthday of the group which held its first meeting (of about 8 people) at MEW (the forerunner of CIUK).
Since then the group has grown, and whilst the CIUK meeting is never as large as the main events, we still had 20-30 attendees.
Continue reading “CIUK Event Report”
