<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Here is where we’re at with the agenda. Still finalizing a few things, but wanted to keep you all in the loop. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Registration Web Site [Register for the SC16 UG event here]:</b></div><div class=""><a href="https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp305.nsf/Agenda.xsp?openform&seminar=357M7UES&locale=en_US&S_TACT=000001CP&S_OFF_CD=10001235" class="">https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp305.nsf/Agenda.xsp?openform&seminar=357M7UES&locale=en_US&S_TACT=000001CP&S_OFF_CD=10001235</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">IBM summary page:<br class=""></b><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/supercomputing/index.html" class="">http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/supercomputing/index.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Location: </b></div><div class="">Salt Lake City Downtown Marriott [Room Number TBD]</div>75 SW Temple Street, Salt Lake City UT 84101 <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Draft Agenda:</b></div><div class="">12:30 12:40 Welcome<br class="">12:40 12:50 Overview<br class="">12:50 13:35 The latest in IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS<br class="">13:55 14:20 NASA Goddard: Big Data in HPC<br class="">14:20 14:45 Nuance: Tiering to Object Storage<br class="">14:45 15:15 - break -<br class="">15:15 15:30 Sponsor Talk: TOPIC TBD (NetApp)<br class="">13:35 13:55 Virginia Tech ARC: SANDisk IF150 (IBM DeepFlash 150)<br class="">15:30 15:50 NASA Goddard: Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB<br class="">15:50 16:35 Spectrum Scale Enhancements for CORAL<br class="">16:35 17:20 News from IBM Research<br class="">17:20 17:30 Closing</div><div class="">[Reception to follow closing, details TBD]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Questions? Comments? Let us know. Hope to see many of you next month. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Final agenda will be made available before the event.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kristy & Bob</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kristy Kallback-Rose<br class="">Manager, Research Storage<br class="">Indiana University</div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 10, 2016, at 6:59 PM, GPFS UG USA Principal <<a href="mailto:usa-principal@gpfsug.org" class="">usa-principal@gpfsug.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>There have been some questions about the Spectrum Scale Users Group event for SC16 and we thought it best to publish our draft agenda and continue to fill it in as details get settled. That way you can make your travel plans and schedules. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The date and rough times are set, we may adjust the time range a bit depending upon the number of user talks that people would like to give. So note, yes! <i class=""><b class="">we are asking for user talks. Please consider doing this.</b> </i>We always receive positive feedback about talks given by users that describe real world experiences. If <b class=""><i class="">any</i></b> of the user talk slots below are of interest to you, please let us know as soon as you can. We may turn at least one user talk into a panel if we can get enough participants.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As always, your feedback is welcome. This is a <b class=""><i class="">users</i></b> group after all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, here’s what we have planned so far:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Date: Sunday November 13th</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Venue: TBD, but near the convention center in downtown SLC</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Time: ~12:30p - ~17:30p</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Agenda:</b></div><div class=""><b class="">12:30 - 12:50 Welcome / Overview<br class="">12:50 - 13:50 The latest in IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS<br class="">13:50 - 14:20 User Talk: Big Data in HPC<br class="">14:20 - 14:50 User Talk: Tiering to Object Storage<br class="">14:50 - 15:20 - break -<br class="">15:20 - 15:50 User Talk: TBD … volunteers! please! <br class="">15:50 - 16:35 Spectrum Scale Enhancements for CORAL<br class="">16:35 - 17:20 News from IBM Research<br class="">17:20 - 17:30 Closing</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kristy & Bob</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kristy Kallback-Rose</div><div class="">Manager, Research Storage</div><div class="">Indiana University</div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br class="">gpfsug-discuss at <a href="http://spectrumscale.org" class="">spectrumscale.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" class="">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>