[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS discussions

Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au
Thu Apr 28 00:27:03 BST 2016


Hi Bill,
       In Australia, I've been lobbying IBM to do something locally, after the great UG meeting at SC15 in Austin. It is looking like they might tack something onto the annual tech symposium they have here - no time frame yet but August has been when it happened for the last couple of years. At that event we should be able to gauge interest on whether we can form a local UG. The advantage of the timing is that a lot of experts will be in the country for the Tech Symposium. They are also talking about another local HPC focused event in the same time frame. My guess is it may well be all bundled together.

Here's hoping it comes off. It might give some of you an excuse to come to Australia! Seriously, I am jealous of the events I see happening in the UK.

Cheers,

Greg Lehmann
Senior High Performance Data Specialist
Data Services | Scientific Computing Platforms
CSIRO Information Management and Technology

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From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)
Sent: Thursday, 28 April 2016 5:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS discussions


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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From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org [gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org] on behalf of Bill Pappas [bpappas at dstonline.com]
Sent: 27 April 2016 20:38
To: gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org
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

901-619-0585

bpappas at dstonline.com



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