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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The next meeting date is set for <b>Wednesday 24<sup>th</sup> April</b> and will be taking place at the fantastic Dolby Studios in London (Dolby Europe Limited, 4–6 Soho Square, London W1D 3PZ). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Getting to Dolby Europe Limited, Soho Square, London<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Leave the Tottenham Court Road tube station by the South Oxford Street exit [Exit 1].<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Turn left onto Oxford Street.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After about 50m turn left into Soho Street.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Turn right into Soho Square.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>4-6 Soho Square is directly in front of you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Our tentative agenda is as follows:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>10:30 Arrivals and refreshments<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>11:00 Introductions and committee updates<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'>Jez Tucker, Group Chair & Claire Robson, Group Secretary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>11:05 GPFS OpenStack Integration<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'>Prasenhit Sarkar, IBM Almaden Research Labs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> GPFS FPO<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Dinesh Subhraveti, IBM Almaden Research Labs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>11:45 SAMBA 4.0 & CTDB 2.0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Michael Adams, SAMBA Development Team<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>12:15 SAMBA & GPFS Integration<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Volker Lendecke, SAMBA Development Team<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>13:00 Lunch (Buffet provided)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>14:00 GPFS Native RAID & LTFS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'>Jim Roche, IBM <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>14:45 User Stories<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>15:45 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions & Committee matters<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'>Led by Jez Tucker, Group Chairperson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>16:00 Close<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We will be starting at 11:00am and concluding at 4pm but some of the speaker timings may alter slightly. I will be posting further details on what the presentations cover over the coming week or so. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We hope you can make it for what will be a really interesting day of GPFS discussions. <b>Please register with me if you would like to attend</b> – registrations are based on a first come first served basis.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Claire Robson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>GPFS User Group Secreatry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Tel: 0114 257 2200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Mob: 07508 033896<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fax: 0114 257 0022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Web: <u><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.gpfsug.org">www.gpfsug.org</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>