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:
6th December 2023
TIME:
14:00 – 17:00 (GMT)
Followed by Networking Reception
LOCATION:
Manchester Central Convention Centre
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AGENDA
| Time | Session | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Coffee & Registration | |
| 14:00 | Dr. Robert Esnouf Director of Research Computing, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford Welcome | |
| 14:10 | Dr. Bryan Lawrence Professor of Weather and Climate Computing, University of Reading An Opportunity for Lustre Based Computational Storage | |
| 14:30 | Student Cluster Challenge Performance analysis of Lustre File Systems |  |
| 15:00 | Panel | |
| 15:20 | Break | |
| 15:40 | Dr. Renier Dreyer CEO, Crunchyard Lustre on Azure: Optimizing performance and costs in the cloud |  |
| 15:55 | Peter Jones Senior Director of Engineering, Whamcloud Lustre Community & Roadmap | |
| 16:10 | Artem Blagodarenko Senior Lustre FS Engineer, Whamcloud Client-Side Data Compression with Lustre | |
| 16:20 | Panel | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | 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 6th December at the Gas Works Brew Bar, 5 Jack Rosenthal St, Manchester M15 4RA.
The event will run from 17:30 until 21:00. Wristbands are required for entry and will be provided at LUG UK.
LUG UK Committee
There will be a meeting of the LUG UK committee meeting from 13:00 before the main sessions, to elect the steering committee and plan for user workshops during 2024. All are welcome to attend.
If you would like to attend the committee meeting, please let us know with a separate email to lug-uk@whamcloud.com to help us with planning.
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.
Contact
Alternatively, to request information on sponsorship opportunities, contact us at lug-uk@whamcloud.com