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The virtual HUF will be held on the following dates:
October 06, 07 (Week 1)
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Venue
The HPSS Slack community will be used for discussion and questions during the HUF.
The virtual HUF will be presented via Webex. Registration with Webex will be required to attend. HUF invitations have been sent out via the HPSS community Slack channel and the HPSS site reflector. We encourage all users to attend.
Price
There will be no cost to attend the virtual HUF event this year.
Session Start Times
Agenda
Red shading indicates restricted talks. | |
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 6 8:00 am + 5:00 pm | HPSS Collaboration Outlook | Todd Heer, LLNL |
Oct 6 8:30 am + 5:30 pm | HPSS Roadmap | Michael Meseke, IBM |
Oct 6 9:00 am + 6:00 pm | HPSS Futures | Michael Meseke, IBM |
Oct 6 9:30 am + 6:30 pm | HPSS Support | Aaron Watson, IBM |
Oct 7 8:00 am + 5:00 pm | A Unified Storage Namespace for High Performance Computing | Todd Heer, LLNL |
Oct 7 8:30 am + 5:30 pm | Sustainability of Tape Technologies | Rich Gadomski, FujiFilm |
Oct 7 9:00 am + 6:00 pm | IBM Tape Technologies Integration | Shawn Brume, IBM |
Oct 7 9:30 am + 6:30 pm | Spectra Logic Storage Technologies | Matt Ninesling, Spectra Logic |
Oct 13 8:00 am + 5:00 pm | HSB Status | Michael Meseke, IBM |
Oct 13 8:30 am + 5:30 pm | Containerization of HSI/HTAR clients | Melinda Jacobsen, NERSC Jon Procknow, IBM |
Oct 13 9:00 am + 6:00 pm | HPSS Developer Q&A | HPSS Developers |
Oct 13 9:30 am + 6:30 pm | HPSSADM has/hac Tool | Elena Summer, MPCDF |
Oct 14 8:00 am + 5:00 pm | Change Management Plan to upgrade HPSS from 7.5.3 to 8.3u11 on a test system | Jaime Pinto, SciNet |
Oct 14 8:30 am + 5:30 pm | Test Results with Limited Availability release of HSB | Guangwei Che, SLAC |
Oct 14 9:00 am + 6:00 pm | SL8500 DataEvac(tm): migrating from Oracle SL8500 to Spectra TFinity | Jose Rodriguez, LLNL Geoff Cleary, LLNL |
Oct 14 9:30 am + 6:30 pm | ATOS HPSS customers and community tool | Romain Simonin, ATOS |
Oct 20 8:00 am + 5:00 pm | General Site Update on Operations and Current Projects | Nick Balthaser, NERSC |
Oct 20 8:30 am + 5:30 pm | Performance Tuning and Testing | Jon Procknow, IBM |
Oct 20 9:00 am + 6:00 pm | HPSS Storage Archive Small File Disk Cache Hardware Refresh | Gregg Gawinski, ORNL |
Oct 20 9:30 am + 6:30 pm | Birds of a Feather | All |
Oct 21 8:00 am + 5:00 pm | General Site Update on Operations and Current Projects | Brenna Miller, ORNL |
Oct 21 8:30 am + 5:30 pm | GridKa Migration Progress | Dorin Lobontu, KIT |
Oct 21 9:00 am + 6:00 pm | Burning Issues Update | Zach Stace, IBM |
Oct 21 9:30 am + 6:30 pm | Burning Issues Update | Zach Stace, IBM |
Birds of a Feather
Host | Discussion |
Herb Wartens, LLNL | Topic: ZFS ZVOLs as HPSS Disk Devices (could also include info about RHEL 8 & Ansible if the audience is interested) |
Francis Dequenne, LBNL |
Topic: User Defined Attributes (UDAs) Objective: Discuss about the use of User Defined Attributes at various sites, Evaluate the interest in this feature. The BOF will give a chance to participants:
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