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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SC17 is only 1 month away! <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Here are the GPFS/Scale User group meeting details. Thanks to IBM for finding the space, providing the refreshments, and help organizing the speakers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">NOTE: You MUST register to attend the user group meeting here</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">:
</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_it-2Dinfrastructure_us-2Den_supercomputing-2D2017_&d=DwMFAw&c=djjh8EKwHtOepW4Bjau0lKhLlu-DxM1dlgP0rrLsOzY&r=LPDewt1Z4o9eKc86MXmhqX-45Cz1yz1ylYELF9olLKU&m=limBdlvXovVa7sM5z86R01hS1h6MI7A_6UWLaT4KEJs&s=wStO0xrcnMhy-BB8okpykVGBRW5FGRiMMUXyb7aq3sw&e="><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif">https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/us-en/supercomputing-2017/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sunday November 12<sup>th</sup>, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Time:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> 12:30PM – 6PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Location: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Room Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Look for signs when you arrive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Agenda<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Start End Duration Title
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">12:30 13:00 30 Welcome, Kristy Kallback-Rose, Bob Oesterlin (User Group), Doris Conti (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:00 13:30 30 Spectrum Scale Update (including blueprints and AWS), Scott Fadden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:30 13:40 10 ESS Update, Puneet Chaudhary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:40 13:50 10 Licensing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:50 14:05 15 Customer talk - Children's Mercy Hospital<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">14:05 14:20 15 Customer talk - Max Dellbrück Center, Alf Wachsmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">14:20 14:35 15 Customer talk - University of Pennsylvania Medical<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">14:35 15:00 25 Live Debug Session, Tomer Perry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:00 15:30 30 Break
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:30 15:50 20 Customer talk - DESY / European XFEL, Martin Gasthuber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:50 16:05 15 Customer talk - University of Birmingham, Simon Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">16:05 16:25 20 Fast Restripe FS, Hai Zhong Zhou<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">16:25 16:45 20 TCT - 1 Bio Files Live Demo, Rob Basham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">16:45 17:05 20 High Performance Data Analysis (incl customer), Piyush Chaudhary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">17:05 17:30 25 Performance Enhancements for CORAL, Sven Oehme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">17:30 18:00 30 Ask the developers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Note: Refreshments will be served during this meeting
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Refreshments will be served at 5.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bob Oesterlin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance<o:p></o:p></p>
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