[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS discussions

Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services) S.J.Thompson at bham.ac.uk
Wed Apr 27 20:52:46 BST 2016


Hi Bill,

As a user community, we organise events in the UK and USA, we post them on the mailing list and the group website - www.spectrumscale.org.

There are a few types of events, meet the devs, which are typically a small group of customers, an integrator or two, and a few developers. We also do @conference events, for example at Super Computing (USA), Computing Insights UK, ibm are also trying to get a meeting running at ISC as well. We then have the larger annual events, for example in the UK we have a meeting in May. These are typically larger meetings with IBM speakers, customer talks and partner talks. Finally there are events organsied/advertised with other groups, for example SPXXL, where in the UK last year we ran with SPXXL's meeting. This is also happening in NYC in a few weeks.

In the UK we have a much smaller geographic problem than the USA, we've also been going a lot longer - the USA side chapter only launched September last year, and Kristy and Bob are building the activity over there.

I think if there was interest in a an informal (e.g.) state meeting that people wanted to coordinate with Kristy/Bob, then we could advertise to the list. Of course all of those involved in organising from the user side of things have real jobs as well and getting big meetings up and running takes quite a lot of work (agendas, speakers, venues, lunches, registration...)

Simon (uk group chair)
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Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS discussions

Where do other users in this group meet to discuss GPFS advancements and share experiences/how-tos? How often? I am speaking of conferences, etc.  Thank you,


Bill Pappas

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