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<div>The GPFS UG meeting at SC15 is just a few days away. We have close to 200 signed up, so it should be a great time! </div>
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<div>The meeting starts at 1 PM US Central time at the JW Marriott in Austin. It’s pretty packed – I’m sure there will be time after and during the week for extended discussions. </div>
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<div>Here is the agenda:</div>
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<div>1:00 - 1:10 - GPFS-UG US chapter Overview – Bob Oesterlin /Kristy Kallback-Rose</div>
<div>1:10 - 1:20 Kick-off – Doris Conti/Akhtar Ali </div>
<div>1:20 - 2:10 Roadmap & technical deep dive - Scott Fadden</div>
<div>2:10 - 2:30 GUI Demo- Ben Randall</div>
<div>2:30 - 3:00 Product quality improvement updates - Hye-Young </div>
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<div>3:00 - 3:15 Break</div>
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<div>3:10 to 3:35 The Hartree Centre, Past, present and future - Colin Morey of UK HPC</div>
<div>3:35 to 4:00 Low Latency performance with Flash - Mark Weghorst of Travelport </div>
<div>4:00 to 4:25 "Performance Tuning & results with Latest ESS configurations” - Matt Forney & Bernard of WSU/Ennovar </div>
<div>4:25 to 4:50 "Large Data Ingest Architecture” - Martin Gasthuber of DESY </div>
<div>4:50 – 5:45 Panel Discussion: "My favorite tool for managing Spectrum Scale is...”</div>
<div>Panelists: </div>
<div>Bob Oesterlin, Nuance (Arxscan)</div>
<div>Wolfgang Bring, Julich (homegrown)</div>
<div>Mark Weghorst, Travelport (open source based on Graphana & FluxDB)</div>
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<div>5:45 –Welcome Reception by DSS (sponsoring reception)</div>
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<font face="Helvetica">Bob Oesterlin<br>
Sr Storage Engineer, Nuance Communications<br>
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