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Head of WHG/BDI Research Computing
University of Oxford
As acting Chair of the Lustre User Group UK (LUG-UK), Dr. Robert Esnouf welcomes attendees to the relaunch of the LUG-UK on 30 November in Manchester. Meet with Lustre developers and socialise with your peers and vendors from across the UK. There will also be a chance to have your say in the future direction of LUG-UK and in shaping its schedule to meet your needs.
View SlidesKerberos Integration with Lustre
Head of WHG/BDI Research Computing
University of Oxford
In this session, Dr. Jon Diprose of WHG/BDI shows how his team has integrated Lustre with Kerberos authentication to support multi-tenancy in large-scale systems, including some of the key challenges and performance tests of client-side encryption.
View SlidesLustre Usage by DiRAC
Head of COSMA HPC Service
Durham University
Alastair Basden of Durham University shares his experiences of using Lustre-based storage systems in the memory-intensive DiRAC COSMA project, used for large cosmological simulations.
View SlidesWho ate my IOPS?! Identifying heavy hitters using jobstats
Principal Systems Administrator
Wellcome Sanger Institute
In this session, James Beal of the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge is joined by Richard Mansfield of DDN, to demonstrate a graphical tool to export Lustre performance metrics to an open source analysis tool.
View SlidesPanel: User Perspectives
An extended panel discussion with Dr. Jon Diprose of WHG, Alastair Basden of Durham University, James Beal of Wellcome Sanger Institute, and Richard Mansfield of DDN, to discuss their perspectives of managing large-scale Lustre systems in production with Dr. Robert Esnouf, acting Chair of LUG-UK.
Cambridge-1: An Approach to Dynamic Multitenancy
Storage Site Reliability Engineer
NVIDIA
In this session, Simon Traill shows how the NVIDIA Cambridge-1 system implements to create a dynamic storage platform using Lustre on DDN Exascaler. Cambridge-1 is a Slurm cluster consisting of 80 DGX A100 systems, and supports multiple tenants, each needing isolated compute and isolated storage.
View SlidesCommunity Release Update
Senior Director of Engineering
Whamcloud
Peter Jones of Whamcloud reviews the roadmap for the Lustre community edition, the latest LTS and forthcoming 2.16 release, and highlights contributions from developers across the community.
View SlidesLustre 2.16 and Beyond
Lustre CTO
Whamcloud
Andreas Dilger is the Lustre CTO at Whamcloud, and previews forthcoming Lustre releases, including new features such as enhancements to Lustre DNE, metadata writeback cache, and metadata redundancy.
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