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DMF Users Group Meeting number 5 - Agenda

Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 4-5 December 2012

 
Time Mins Presenter Organisation Topic (Items in blue have a synopsis - just hover your mouse over the title)
Tuesday 4th
9:30 15 Robert Bell & Ahmed El Zein Welcome and Introduction
9:45 60 Anthony Bayer & Steve Pettit NetApp DDP - Dynamic Disk Pooling
presentation and presentation
10:45 15 Break
11:00 60 All Site introductions (5 - 10 mins each)
  Lindsay Brebber Queensland Dept Natural Resources & Mines  
  Stephen Dart Monash University presentation
  Paul Newman iVec presentation
  Rob Bell CSIRO ASC presentation
12:00 30 Arun Ramakrishnan SGI R&D Storage Roadmap & DMF Feature Update
DMF 5.5/5.6 details provided afterwards
12:30 60 Lunch (sponsored by SGI)
13:30 30 Ahmed El Zein Australian National University The ANU Datacloud Storage Environment
presentation
14:00 30 Arun Ramakrishnan SGI R&D OpenVault features and roadmap
presentation
14:30 30 Robert Bell CSIRO ASC Monitoring DMF usage and reporting
presentation
15:00 15 Break
15:15 30 Arun Ramakrishnan SGI R&D Copan MAID Fast Mount Cache feature
presentation
15:45 30 Lindsay Brebber Queensland Dept Natural Resources & Mines Lessons learnt from a decade of use of dmmove
presentation
16:15 30 Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC Local tools used to administer DMF at CSIRO ASC
presentation and directory
16:45 15 All The DMF Users Group - review & planning
17:00 30 empty empty empty
Tuesday 4th (evening)
19:00 Ottoman Cuisine Restaurant (see notes below) Dinner (sponsored by NetApp)
Wednesday 5th
9:30 Wed  
16:30 CST 4th
14:30 PST 4th
04:00 IST 5th 		60 Arun Ramakrishnan and
other DMF team members		 SGI R&D Ask SGI
10:30 15 David Houlder Australian National University "mdss" - ANU's interface into DMF
presentation
10:45 15 Break
11:00 30 Adam Butler & Russell Noble Oracle Digital Preservation
presentation
11:30 30 Jason Lohrey Arcitecta Packaging data to reduce file counts both for network transmission and data storage
presentation
12:00 30 Arun Ramakrishnan SGI R&D Dmfman enhancements
presentation
12:30 60 Lunch (sponsored by SGI)
13:30 30 Jason Lohrey Arcitecta Dynamically generated file systems based on metadata
presentation
14:00 30 Arun Ramakrishnan SGI R&D DMF database scalability project
presentation
14:30 30 Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC dmunput - the under-appreciated DMF repair tool (tutorial)
presentation
15:00 15 Break
15:15 30 Arun Ramakrishnan SGI R&D DMF and Lustre HSM research project
presentation and audio (AIF) (MP3)
15:45 30 Jason Ozolins Australian National University SAM-FS to DMF Exodus
presentation
16:15 15 Arun Ramakrishnan SGI R&D Logical Block Protection
presentation
16:30 5 Rob Bell Close
 
 
Notes:
  • Our overseas guests include:
    • Arun Ramakrishnan (SGI)
    • Other members of SGI's DMF/MAID/tapes R&D team (by phone)

  • The location of the DMF User Group Meeting to be held on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th December 2011 is:
    Manning Clark Centre
    Australian National University
    Acton
    Australian Capital Territory

    Campus map
    Locality map

    If you get lost, you can call Sue Cameron on 6125 9801. (If there's no reply, try Peter Edwards on 046 7766 487.)

  • NB: Parking is not easy at the ANU.

  • Accomodation is available nearby, including:

  • Canberra's weather in December is usually warm to hot (but not humid) during the day, with cooler nights. You can check the forecasts here.

  • Lunch and coffee are sponsored by SGI (thank you!) and likely to be at the nearby Degree Café.

  • For catering reasons, please RSVP if you wish to attend the NetApp-sponsored dinner (thank you NetApp!)
    Ottoman Cuisine Restaurant
    9 Broughton Street (corner of Blackall St)
    Barton ACT
    Map

    7:00 PM in private room, booked in the name "NetApp"

  • The meeting room is fitted out with a projector; if presenting anything electronic, you can bring your own laptop, or plug a USB drive into ours. If you need something special, such as a whiteboard or an Internet connection, please let us know well in advance.

  • Attendees with Eduroam accounts should be able to use them to gain wifi Internet access.
    There is also a guest wireless service for those without Eduroam.

  • Presenters are encouraged to provide a copy of their talk where possible, to be placed on our web-site.

Last updated 6th December 2012