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DMF Users Group Meeting number 7 - Agenda

University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 18-19 February 2015

 
Time Mins Presenter Organisation Topic (Items in blue have a synopsis - just hover your mouse over the title)
Wednesday 18th
9:30 15 Robert Bell & Luc Betbeder-Matibet Welcome and Introduction
Presentation  
9:45 60 All Site introductions (5 - 10 mins each)
  Lindsay Brebber Queensland Dept Natural Resources & Mines
  Kym Hill University of Tasmania/TPAC
  Jeremie Ryan Weta Digital
  Rob Davy & Grant Ward National Computational Infrastructure
  Luke Baker Intersect
  Al Davis National University of Singapore
  Robert Bell & Dave Morrison CSIRO Scientific Computing
(Data Store & LTSF resp.)		 Data Store Presentation   LTSF Presentation  
10:45 15 Break
11:00 30 Robert Mollard SGI Melbourne DMF recent features
Presentation  
11:30 30 Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing Hybrid filesystems revisited (tutorial)
Presentation   Scripts  
12:00 30 Robert Mollard SGI Melbourne DMF roadmap
12:30 30 Jason Lohrey (by phone) Arcitecta Zero data loss with DMF and Mediaflux
Presentation  
13:00 60 Lunch at Bluestone Cafe (self-funded)
14:00 30 Ashley Wright Queensland University of Technology QUT's experiences using DMF
Presentation  
14:30 30 Robert Mollard SGI Melbourne Design considerations and options for Lustre HSM with DMF
Presentation  
15:00 30 Joe Nemeth SGI Engineering DMF with Lustre
Presentation  
15:30 15 Break
15:45 45 Joe Nemeth & Susheel Gokhale SGI Engineering & SGI Melbourne DMF control from Windows (including demo)
Presentation  
16:30 20 Daniel Richards DDN Storage Testing experiences of S3, DDN Web Object Scaler and DMF
Presentation  
16:50 45 video SGI SC14 demo's of tier1/tier2 storage capabilities
17:35 End of first day
Wednesday 18th (evening)
18:30 Dinner (provided by SGI) (see notes below)
Thursday 19th
9:00 AEST
16:00CST18th
14:00PST18th		 66 Joe Nemeth,
John Sygulla, Kevan Rehm
and other storage team members		 SGI Engineering Ask SGI
Q & A  
10:06 40 All Round table discussion
Topics include:
  • Does anyone not run dmaudit regularly? (It may be faster once Postgres is in use)
  • Interest in DMF on GPFS
  • RAIT
  • Erasure coding for JBFS
  • When to migrate and not migrate data
  • Capacity sizing and IO performance relationships for each tier in a multi-tier configuration
10:46 14 Break
11:00 30 Al Davis National University of Singapore DMF without tapes
Presentation  
11:30 40 Joe Nemeth & Susheel Gokhale SGI Engineering & SGI Melbourne DMF queue view (including demo)
Presentation  
12:10 25 Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing Faking a snapshotting filesystem
Presentation  
12:35 25 Joe Nemeth SGI Engineering DMF with PostgreSQL
Presentation  
13:00 60 Lunch at JG's Cafe (self-funded)
14:00 45 Peter McGonigal SGI Melbourne Mineset for data analytics (demo)
Presentation  
14:45 30 Lindsay Brebber Queensland Dept Natural Resources & Mines DNRM's recent experiences with DMF
15:15 15 Break
15:30 15 Joe Nemeth SGI Engineering DMF integrated backup
Presentation  
15:45 15 Joe Nemeth SGI Engineering DMF cold storage
Presentation  
16:00 10 All DMF Users Group - review & planning
Notes  
16:10 5 Peter Edwards Close
16:15 End of last day

 
 
Notes:
  • Our overseas guests include:
    • Joe Nemeth (SGI Engineering)
    • Other members of SGI's DMF/MAID/tapes engineering team (by phone)

  • The location of the DMF User Group Meeting to be held on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th February 2013 is at:
    University of New South Wales
    Mathews bldg, Room 104
    near Oval Lane, Kensington 2033
    Phone: (02) 9385 8182
    (Locality map)
    (Campus map - ref F23)

    If you get lost, you can call Carola Chappell on 9385 8182. (If there's no reply, try Peter Edwards on 046 7766 487.)

  • Suggested accommodation - please see here.

  • There is a 10 level carpark in Oval Lane with metered car spaces on the top level floors; the meters take gold coins.

  • Sydney's weather in February is usually warm and sometimes humid during the day (maxima 19 - 26° C).
    You can check the daily forecasts here.

  • Lunch and coffee are available nearby at the AGSM Café and Blue Stone Café.

  • For catering reasons, please RSVP if you wish to attend the SGI-provided dinner on the evening of the 18th (thank you SGI!).
    Spatch Cock
    2/25-31 Perouse Rd
    Randwick
    (02) 9398 5757
    (Map)
    6:30 PM, booked in the name "SGI"

  • The meeting room is fitted out with a projector; to present 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.
    A guest wireless service is available for those without Eduroam access.

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

Last updated 26 February 2015