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:
4th December 2024

TIME:
12:30 – 13:30 (GMT) New User Training
14:00 – 17:00 (GMT) LUG UK
Followed by Networking Reception

LOCATION:
Manchester Central Convention Centre

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Featured Speakers

Dr. Robert Esnouf
Director of Research Computing
Rich Mansfield
SE Technical Manager
Andreas Dilger
Lustre CTO

Agenda

TimeSessionOrganisation
12:00 Coffee & Registration
12:30 Dr. Richard Mansfield SE Technical Manager, DDN Lustre Tutorial – Introduction for New Users
13:30 Coffee & Registration
14:00 Dr. Robert Esnouf Director of Research Computing, Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford Welcome
14:10 Gwen Dawes Senior HPC Systems Specialist, University of Cambridge Lustre at Cambridge: Past, Present and Future
14:25 Dr. Michele Guidolin Expert HPC Analyst at Met Office Weathering the “data” storm: the Met Office’s new Lustre filesystems
14:45 Panel
15:10 Break
15:35 Dr. Frank Otto Principal Research Infrastructure Developer, UCL LNet routing between Omnipath and Infiniband - Experiences at UCL ARC
15:55 Andreas Dilger Lustre CTO, Whamcloud Lustre 2.17 and Beyond
16:10 Andreas Dilger Lustre CTO, DDN Charting the Future of EXAScaler
16:25 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 4 December at the Gas Works Brew Bar, 5 Jack Rosenthal St, Manchester M15 4RA. The event will start at 17:30. CIUK lanyards are required for entry and will be provided at LUG UK.

Other Resources and Events

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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.

Contact

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