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

Dr. Robert Esnouf
Director of Research Computing
Peter Jones
CEO, The Lustre Collective
Dr. Marc-André Vef
Software Engineer, DDN

Agenda

TimeSessionOrganisation
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 The Five Stages of Grief
14:35 Janos Blum Software Engineer, DKRZ From lustre-db to LimScaup: Open-Source Metadata Analytics for Lustre and Beyond
14:50 Break
15:20 Marc-André Vef Software Engineer, DDN Status of Read-Only 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
17:00-19:00 Networking Reception
17:30-21:00 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, so please pick up your CIUK pass before LUG UK.

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

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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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