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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Registration is only open for a few more days!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Register here:<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scale-gpfs-user-group-us-spring-2019-meeting-tickets-57035376346" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scale-gpfs-user-group-us-spring-2019-meeting-tickets-57035376346"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scale-gpfs-user-group-us-spring-2019-meeting-tickets-57035376346</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">(directions,
locations, and suggested hotels)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Breakfast, Lunch included (free of charge) and Evening social event at NCAR!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Here is the “final” agenda:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tuesday, April 16th
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">8:30 9:00 Registration and Networking
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">9:00 9:20 Welcome Kristy Kallback-Rose / Bob Oesterlin (Chair) / Ted Hoover (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">9:20 9:45 Spectrum Scale: The past, the present, the future Wayne Sawdon (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">9:45 10:10 Accelerating AI workloads with IBM Spectrum Scale Ted Hoover (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">10:10 10:30 Nvidia: Doing large scale AI faster – scale innovation with multi-node-multi-GPU computing and a scaling data pipeline Jacci Cenci (Nvidia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">10:30 11:00 Coffee and Networking n/a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">11:00 11:25 AI ecosystem and solutions with IBM Spectrum Scale Piyush Chaudhary (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">11:25 11:45 Customer Talk / Partner Talk TBD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">11:45 12:00 Meet the devs Ulf Troppens (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">12:00 13:00 Lunch and Networking
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:00 13:30 Spectrum Scale Update Puneet Chauhdary (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:30 13:45 ESS Update Puneet Chauhdary (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:45 14:00 Support Update Bob Simon (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">14:00 14:30 Memory Consumption in Spectrum Scale Tomer Perry (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">14:30 15:00 Coffee and Networking n/a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:00 15:20 New HPC Usage Model @ Jülich: Multi PB User Data Migration Martin Lischewski (Forschungszentrum Jülich)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:20 15:40 Open discussion: large scale data migration All<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:40 16:00 Container & Cloud Update Ted Hoover (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">16:00 16:20 Towards Proactive Service with Call Home Ulf Troppens (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">16:20 16:30 Break
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">16:30 17:00 Advanced metadata management with Spectrum Discover Deepavali Bhagwat (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">17:00 17:20 High Performance Tier Tomer Perry (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">17:20 18:00 Meet the Devs - Ask us Anything All<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">18:00 20:00 Get Together n/a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:00 - 17:15 Breakout Session: Getting Started with Spectrum Scale
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Wednesday, April 17th
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">8:30 9:00 Coffee und Networking n/a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">8:30 9:00 Spectrum Scale Licensing Carl Zetie (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">9:00 10:00 "Spectrum Scale Use Cases (Beginner)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale Protocols (Overview) (Beginner)"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale backup and SOBAR Chris Maestas (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Getting started with AFM (Advanced) Venkat Puvva (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">10:00 11:00 How to design a Spectrum Scale environment? (Beginner) Tomer Perry (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale on Google Cloud Jeff Ceason (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale Trial VM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale Vagrant" "Chris Maestas (IBM Ulf Troppens (IBM)"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">11:00 12:00 "Spectrum Scale GUI (Beginner)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale REST API (Beginner)" "Chris Maestas (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale Network flow Tomer Perry (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale Watch Folder (Advanced)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Spectrum Scale File System Audit Logging "Deepavali Bhagwat (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">12:00 13:00 Lunch and Networking n/a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:00 13:20 Sponsor Talk: Excelero TBD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:20 13:40 AWE site update Paul Tomlinson (AWE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:40 14:00 Sponsor Talk: Lenovo Ray Padden (Lenovo)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">14:00 14:30 Coffee and Networking n/a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">14:30 15:00 TCT Update Rob Basham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:00 15:30 AFM Update Venkat Puvva (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:30 15:50 New Storage Options for Spectrum Scale Carl Zetie (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">15:50 16:00 Wrap-up Kristy Kallback-Rose / Bob Oesterlin<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>
<p class="MsoNormal">507-269-0413<o:p></o:p></p>
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