Independent User group for users, VARs, BPs and developers of Spectrum Scale
The Spectrum Scale user group is holding an informal meeting at CIUK to provide you with an opportunity to learn more about the features of the latest release, hear from spectrum scale users on their experiences and to network with other users.
Please ensure you are registered for CIUK (https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/ciuk-2017) and select to attend the session when registering.
Date: 12th December 2017, 2-5pm
Venue: Manchester Central
The UK user group for 2018 is taking place on 18th & 19th April 2018 at IBM Client Centre, London.
The agenda for the day is listed below. Presentations are linked, where available from the talk title. Videos of the talks are available at in a YouTube playlist.
| 09:00 | 10:00 | ARRIVALS & REGISTRATION | |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Opening & welcome | Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole / Ted Hoover |
| 10:30 | 11:15 | Update Scale (video) / ESS / Support (video) | Mathias Dietz & Chris Maestas |
| 11:15 | 11:40 | MultiCloud Transparent Cloud Tiering (video) | Rob Basham |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Sponsor Talk E8 | Stuart Campbell |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 | 13:20 | User Talk – EBI and IBM update – MMAP issues (video – both talks) | Jordi Valls / Sven Oehme |
| 13:20 | 13:40 | Sponsor Talk NEC | Jan Erik Sundermann |
| 13:40 | 14:00 | Tooling Scale – Automation | Open Discussion |
| 14:00 | 14:20 | User Talk – Rohde&Schwarz | Oliver Gappa |
| 14:20 | 14:40 | Sponsor Talk – OCF | Laurence Horrocks-Barlow |
| 14:40 | 15:10 | BREAK | |
| 15:10 | 15:30 | Sponsor Talk – Ellexus | Dr. Rosemary Francis |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | User Talk – Scientific Computing & Storage at The Francis Crick Institute | Michael Holliday |
| 15:50 | 16:35 | Mixing storage systems in Spectrum Scale – Migrations & pools stories | Luis Bolinches |
| 16:35 | 17:20 | Burning Issues Discussion | Carl Zetie |
| 17:20 | 17:30 | WRAP UP | Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole |
In the evening there is a networking/social event (food + drinks) at a local restaurant. Further details will be provided on the day.
| 08:30 | 09:00 | ARRIVALS | |
| 09:00 | 10:00 | AWS Installation Live Demo & Container Update | John Lewars |
| Composable Infrastructure for Genomics Medicine Workloads | Ulf Troppens | ||
| GUI capabilities in multi-cluster setups like AFM and cross-cluster mount | Markus Rohwedder | ||
| 10:00 | 11:00 | File System Audit Logging / Running Spectrum Scale in a Vagrant environment | Chris Maestas |
| REST API – Update & Deep Dive in Health Monitoring and Zimon Queries | Andreas Koeninger | ||
| AFM Deep Dive – Tuning and debugging | Venkateswara Puvvada | ||
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Scale on Z / Mainframe | Susanne Wintenberger |
| Network Flows | John Lewars | ||
| System Health, Performance Monitoring & Call Home | Mathias Dietz | ||
| 12:00 | 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 | 13:20 | User Talk – QMUL | Peter Childs |
| 13:20 | 13:40 | Sponsor Talk – Lenovo | Michael Hennecke |
| 13:40 | 14:20 | The advent of NVMe. What does this mean for Scale? | Sven Oehme |
| 14:20 | 14:50 | BREAK | |
| 14:50 | 15:10 | User Talk – MAX IV | Andreas Mattsson |
| 15:10 | 15:30 | Sponsor Talk – DDN | Vic Cornell |
| 15:30 | 16:30 | Cognititive, ML, Hortonworks | Yong ZY Zheng |
| 16:30 | 16:40 | CLOSE | Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole |
With thanks to our sponsors for their support.
OK, OK, its been a while and I apologise for the delay in getting this written up (sorry Claire!), so many things have got in the way in my real job!
So the UK meeting this year saw a move from London to Manchester, but still saw a strong following of Spectrum Scale UGers attending. First off, lets talk about the elephant, or rather pillar in the room…. yes the conference venue had THE largest concrete pillars in the space … something to do with it once being a 1970’s office block so I’m told. But we managed, and DDN’s Vic even had some fun with laser pointers and the mirrors mounted on the pillars. Continue reading “May 2017 UK User Group Report”
We’re flattered that we’ve seen some advertising us as the Global Spectrum Scale user group event, and its great that we’re doing well. This year’s event will be bigger than ever with space for up to 200 attendees, we’ve had to move out of IBM Client Centre in South Bank and are heading north to Manchester!
The UK Spring user group will take place over two days on 9th and 10th May 2017 at the Macdonald Manchester Hotel, Manchester. We’d like to thank IBM and our sponsors for supporting the event and the evening networking/social event on the evening of 9th May 2017.
As usual, we will have a packed agenda with speakers from the IBM development teams, user talks as well as technical talks from our sponsors.
The hotel where the event is taking place has reserved a limited number of rooms for the night before the event (8th May) and the night of the event (9th May). The rates are £115 B&B and £145 B&B per room per night respectively and if anyone wishes to book they can call the hotel 0344 879 9088 and quote code OCFP090517 to benefit from these rates. Please ensure you have confirmed your ticket via the registration page before booking your hotel room.
The agenda for the day is a bit further down the page and we are looking for users to do a short presentation on their use of Spectrum Scale/GPFS. Please contact us if you’d like to volunteer. These are often the most valuable talks of the event so please don’t be shy!
We’d very much like to thank the following sponsors for supporting the user group meeting by providing funding to support the evening social event:
ArcaStream |
DDN |
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Ellexus |
Lenovo |
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IBM |
Mellanox |
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OCF |
Seagate |
Media Sponsor:
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Registration & Networking |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Opening & Welcome – Simon Thompson (UG), Michael Daubman (IBM) |
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Spectrum Scale Update – Ulf Troppens (IBM) |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | ESS Update – Christopher Maestas (IBM) |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Sponsor Talk 1 – Ellexus: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage: an I/O profiling case study – Dr. Rosemary Francis |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch & Networking |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Customer Talk – “The UK Research Data Facility” – Kieran Leach (EPCC) |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Sponsor Talk 2 – DDN: AFM Case Studies – Vic Cornell |
| 13:40 – 14:30 | Spectrum Scale Cloud Deployments – Christopher Maestas (IBM) |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Licensing – Carl Zetie (IBM) |
| 14:50 – 15:20 | Coffee and Networking |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Sponsor Talk 3 – Arcastream: Automated Data Curation and Discovery with Spectrum Scale and ArcaStream – Jez Tucker & Barry Evans |
| 15:40 – 16:30 | Problem Determination – Simon Lorenz (IBM) |
| 16:30 – 17:20 | Best Practices – Olaf Weiser (IBM) |
| 17:50 – 18:00 | Wrap up |
| 18:00 | Finish |
| 19:00 | Evening Social Event, drinks and food – Manchester Museum of Science and Industry |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Coffee and Networking |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Parallel Breakout/workshop session 1
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| 10:00 – 11:00 | Parallel Breakout/workshop session 2
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| 11:00 – 12:00 | Parallel Breakout/workshop session 3
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| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch & Networking |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Sponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: RoCE and Spectrum Scale – RDMA support and performance over Ethernet – Darren Harkins |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Customer Talk – AFM Migration – The road to perdition – Mark Roberts (AWE) & Laurence Horrocks-Barlow (OCF) |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Sponsor Talk 5 – Seagate: Accelerating Spectrum Scale with an Intelligent IO Manager – Ray Coetzee |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Customer Talk – TBC |
| 14:20 – 14:50 | Coffee and Networking |
| 14:50 – 16:00 | Research Topics – Sven Oehme (IBM) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Wrap-up and feedback – Simon Thompson (UG), Michael Daubman (IBM) |
| 16:30 | Finish |
To register for this year’s event, please use our EventBrite event page at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scalegpfs-user-group-spring-2017-tickets-32113696932
Registration is now open.
Please note that we are currently limiting registrations to 3 per organisation to ensure as many organisations as possible are able to attend and places are strictly limited due to room capacity. We will be operating a wait list, so if you can’t get a ticket now, then we’ll hold details in case they become available nearer the date.
We look forward to seeing you in May!
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.