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.
Featured Speakers
Agenda
| Time | Session | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Coffee & Registration | |
| 14:00 | Dr. Robert Esnouf Director of Research Computing, Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford Welcome | |
| 14:05 | James Archer Rolls-Royce TBD | |
| 14:20 | James Beal Principal Systems Administrator Technical Lead, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute TBD |  |
| 14:35 | Janos Blum DKRZ TBD |  |
| 14:50 | Break | |
| 15:20 | Marc-André Vef Software Engineer, Whamcloud Erasure Coding for 2.18 |  |
| 15:40 | Peter Jones CEO, The Lustre Collective Community Release Update | |
| 16:00 | Peter Jones CEO, The Lustre Collective Lustre Roadmap | |
| 16:20 | Panel Session with all Speakers | |
| 16:40 | Dr. Robert Esnouf Director of Research Computing, Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford Wrap-up | |
| 16:45+ | Networking Reception | |
Lustre User Group UK
DATE:
2nd December 2026
TIME:
14:00 – 17:00 (GMT) LUG UK
Followed by Networking Reception
LOCATION:
The Midland Hotel
16 Peter St, Manchester M60 2DS
Gold Sponsors
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