About LUG UK

Hosted alongside CIUK in Manchester, this event brings together the UK Lustre Community, with keynote speakers from Lustre open source contributors, engineers and partners, sharing their experience and technology roadmap updates.

Lustre User Group UK

DATE:
3rd December 2025

TIME:
13:00 – 14:30 (GMT) Lustre Tutorial – I/O Profiling with Darshan
14:50 – 17:00 (GMT) LUG UK
Followed by Networking Reception

LOCATION:
The Midland Hotel
16 Peter St, Manchester M60 2DS

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Featured Speakers

Dr. Robert Esnouf
Director of Research Computing
Dr. Mark Lovell
HPC Technical Manager
Tom Green
Infrastructure Specialist

Agenda

TimeSessionOrganisation
12:30 Coffee & Registration Lustre Tutorial
13:00 Dr. Jean-Thomas Acquaviva Research Engineer Lustre Tutorial - I/O Profiling with Darshan: Presentation
13:30 Dr. Jean-Thomas Acquaviva Research Engineer Lustre Tutorial - I/O Profiling with Darshan: Workshop
14:30 Coffee & Registration Lustre User Group UK
14:50 Dr. Robert Esnouf Director of Research Computing, Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford Welcome
14:55 Dr. Mark Lovell HPC Technical Manager Lustre filesystem monitoring @ COSMA
15:10 Tom Green Infrastructure Expert Lustre on Isambard-AI, the story so far
15:25 Guest Speaker TBC TBC
15:40 Break
16:00 Peter Jones Chief Executive Officer Community Release Update
16:20 Peter Jones Chief Executive Officer Lustre Roadmap
16:40 Panel Session with all Speakers
17:00-19:00 Networking Reception
18:00-21:00 CIUK Networking Event Lustre User Group UK attendees are invited to attend the pre-CIUK evening networking event on Wednesday 3 December at the Gas Works Brew Bar, 5 Jack Rosenthal St, Manchester M15 4RA. The event will start at 18:00. CIUK lanyards are required for entry and will be provided at LUG UK.

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Call for Papers

We welcome presentation proposals for the UK Lustre User Group, especially technical presentations to support the performance, security or usability of large-scale Lustre implementations. Session proposals could be for short 10-minute highlights, or for longer in-depth 20-minute technical reviews.

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Contact

Alternatively, to request information on sponsorship opportunities, contact us at lug-uk@whamcloud.com