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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SC18 is only 3 weeks away! Here is the (more or less) final agenda for the user group meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">SSUG @ SC18 <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Sunday, November 11<sup>th</sup> 12:30PM - 18:00</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Omni Dallas Hotel<br>
555 S Lamar <br>
Dallas, Texas <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please register at the IBM site here:
<a href="https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp305.nsf/Agenda.xsp?locale=en_US&openform=&seminar=2DQMNHES#">
https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp305.nsf/Agenda.xsp?locale=en_US&openform=&seminar=2DQMNHES#</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Looking forward to seeing everyone in Dallas!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bob, Kristy, and Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">12:30 12:45 15 Welcome</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">12:45 13:15 30 Spectrum Scale Update</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">13:15 13:30 15 ESS Update</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">13:30 13:45 15 Service Update</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">13:45 14:05 20 Lessons learned from a very unusual year (Kevin Buterbaugh, Vanderbilt)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">14:05 14:25 20 Implementing a scratch filesystem with E8 Storage NVMe (Tom King, Queen Mary University of London)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">14:25 14:45 20 Spectrum Scale and Containers (John Lewars, IBM)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">14:45 15:10 25 Break</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">15:10 15:30 20 Best Practices for Protocol Nodes (Tomer Perry/Ulf Troppens, IBM)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">15:30 15:50 20 Network Design Tomer Perry/Ulf Troppens, IBM/Mellanox)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">15:50 16:10 20 AI Discussion</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">16:10 16:30 20 Improving Spark workload performance with Spectrum Conductor on Spectrum Scale (Chris Schlipalius, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">16:30 16:50 20 Spectrum Scale @ DDN – Technical update (Sven Oehme, DDN)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">16:50 17:10 20 Burst Buffer (Tom Goodings)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">17:10 17:30 20 MetaData Management</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">17:30 17:45 15 Lenovo Update (Michael Hennecke, Lenovo)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">17:45 18:00 15 Ask us anything</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">18:00 Social Event (at the hotel)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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