DMF Users Group Meeting number 6 - Agenda

iVEC/Pawsey Centre, Perth, Western Australia, 3-4 December 2013

Time	Mins	Presenter	Organisation	Topic (Items in blue have a synopsis - just hover your mouse over the title)
Tuesday 3rd
9:30	15	Robert Bell & Mark Favas		Welcome and Introduction
9:45 AWST 17:45 PST 2nd	60	Don Wake	NetApp	HPC solution sizing with IS5600 Presentation
10:45	15	Break
11:00	60	All		Site introductions (5 - 10 mins each)
		Stephen Dart	Monash University	Report
		Lindsay Brebber	Qld Dept Natural Resources & Mines
		Rob Davy & Grant Ward	NCI National Facility
		Rob Bell	CSIRO Scientific Computing
12:00	30	Neil Stringfellow	iVEC	iVEC/Pawsey Centre Overview Presentation
12:30	30	Greg Banks	SGI Engineering	Infinite Storage Gateway Overview Presentation
13:00	50	Lunch (Provided by SGI)
13:50	40		iVEC	Tour of the Pawsey Centre
14:30	30	David Leach	Weta Digital	Dealing with large numbers of files in DMF Presentation
15:00	30	Greg Banks	SGI Engineering	Cloud MSP options coming Presentation
15:30	15	Break
15:45	30	Peter Edwards	CSIRO Scientific Computing	DMF Hints for the Help Desk Presentation
16:15	30	Rob Mollard	SGI Perth	Extending DMF into the Enterprise Presentation
16:45	10	Rob Bell	CSIRO Scientific Computing	First impressions of SGI's new FileTek product, TrustedEdge Presentation-1 Presentation-2
16:55	30	Greg Banks	SGI Engineering	Integrated DMF backup and restore Presentation
17:25		End of day
Tuesday 3rd (evening)
19:00		Thai Orchid Restaurant (see notes below)		Dinner (provided by NetApp)
Wednesday 4th
9:00 AWST 19:00 CST 3rd 17:00 PST 3rd	45	Greg Banks, John Sygulla, Kevan Rehm & other DMF team members	SGI Engineering	Ask SGI Q & A
9:45	15	Lindsay Brebber	Qld Dept Natural Resources & Mines	Upgrading to ISSP 3.0 - our experience Presentation
10:00	30	Mike Cocks/Mike Grayson	Spectra Logic	Overview of future developments of TFinity produce line Presentation
10:30	30	Stephen Dart	Monash University	Integration of Samba servers with DMF Presentation
11:00	15	Break
11:15	30	Greg Banks	SGI Engineering	Update on ZeroWatt disk options coming Presentation
11:45	30	Rob Bell	CSIRO Scientific Computing	Why is storing data at multiple sites so hard? Presentation
12:15	30	Greg Banks	SGI Engineering	Why tapes might rewind without DMF knowing it resulting in corruption - a real life example from a large US site
12:45	15	Lindsay Brebber	Qld Dept Natural Resources & Mines	Log files - do you have them when you need them? Presentation
13:00	60	Lunch (Provided by SGI)
14:00	30	Greg Banks	SGI Engineering	Logical Block Protection with Oracle T10k tape drives Presentation
14:30	30	Peter Edwards	CSIRO Scientific Computing	dm_notify - informing users about recalls Presentation
15:00	30	Greg Banks	SGI Engineering	Update on the DMF database replacement Presentation
15:30	15	Break
15:45	10	All		The DMF Users Group - review & planning Notes
15:55	30	Greg Banks	SGI Engineering	Integrated LTFS support for data import/export Presentation
16:25	5	Rob Bell		Close
16:30		End of day

Notes:

Our overseas guests include:
- Greg Banks (SGI)
- Other members of SGI's DMF/MAID/tapes Development team (by phone)
- Don Wake (NetApp, by phone)
The location of the DMF User Group Meeting to be held on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th December 2013 is at:
Pawsey Vis Room
Pawsey Centre
Burvill Court
Kensington 6151
(Entry and carpark for the Pawsey Centre are on the East side)
Reception: (08) 6436 8830
(Map)

If you get lost, you can call Reception as above. (If there's no reply, try Peter Edwards on 046 7766 487.)
Accomodation used by CSIRO in the past include:
Each is about 10 minutes drive from the iVEC/ARRC Pawsey Centre.
Perth's weather in December is usually warm to hot (but not humid) during the day (maxima around 30° C).
You can check the daily forecasts here.
Lunch and coffee are provided by SGI (thank you!)
For catering reasons, please RSVP if you wish to attend the NetApp-provided dinner (thank you NetApp!)
Thai Orchid Restaurant
Level 2, 35 Mends Street
South Perth
(08) 9474 1888
(Map)
7:00 PM, booked in the name "SGI"
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 extra, 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.

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