LUG 2026 was held in the NCAA National Headquarters Building at
Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana on April 28-30 2026
LUG 2026 Agenda
Tuesday, Apr 28 – Day 1
| 09:15-09:30
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Welcoming Remarks
- Megan Larkin, OpenSFS; Tom Crowe, IU
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| 09:30-10:00
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Lustre Community Update (video)
- Peter Jones, The Lustre Collective
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| 10:30-11:30
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Lustre 2.18 and Beyond (video)
- Andreas Dilger, The Lustre Collective
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| 11:30-12:00
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Lustre Upstreaming Efforts Progress (video)
- James Simmons, ORNL
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| 13:00-13:15
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DDN Sponsor Talk - LLM Experiments
- Morris Skupinsky, DDN
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| 13:15-13:45
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Lustre in the Works (video)
- Sebastien Buisson, DDN
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| 13:45-14:15
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Lustre Transition to Folio I/O (video)
- Shaun Tancheff, HPE
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| 14:15-14:45
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Status of Lustre's Hybrid I/O (video)
- Marc-Andre Vef, DDN
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| 15:15-15:45
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Lustre File Data Resilience - Erasure Coding with Friends (video)
- Patrick Farrell, The Lustre Collective
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| 15:45-16:15
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Lustre Metadata Redundancy (video)
- Oleg Drokin, Lai Siyao, DDN
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| 16:15-17:00
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OpenSFS Update
- OpenSFS Board
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| 17:30-21:30
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Networking and Social Event - The Rathskeller Restaurant
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Wednesday, Apr 29 – Day 2
| 09:00-9:30
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The MLPerf Benchmark and Lustre (video)
- Ellis Wilson, Microsoft
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| 09:30-10:00
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Enhancing Lustre for Modern AI (video)
- Sergei Platonov, Xinnor
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| 10:30-11:00
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LNet Observability and Monitoring (video)
- Timothy Day, The Lustre Collective
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| 11:00-11:30
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Data Management Practices on Large Multi-Tier Lustre Filesystems (video)
- Richard Mohr, Ethan Frenza, Brad Gipson, Jesse Hanley, ORNL
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| 11:30-12:00
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Tips and Tricks for Empowering LLMs with Lustre Knowledge (video)
- Ellis Wilson, Microsoft
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| 13:00-13:15
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AWS Sponsor Talk
- AWS
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| 13:15-13:45
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Practical Multi-Tenancy for HPC/Cloud in 2026 (video)
- Robert Read, Matt Raso-Barnett, The Lustre Collective
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| 13:45-14:15
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Operational Lessons and Case Studies from OCI's Managed Lustre Service (video)
- Aboo Valappi, Sonia Sharma, Vinod Johnson, Oracle
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| 14:15-14:45
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High Performance Cloud-Native Lustre on Object Storage with Active-Active HA (video)
- Supramani Sammandam, Zettalane Systems
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| 15:15-15:45
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Lustre on Kubernetes: Leveraging Advanced Lustre Features for AI/HPC Workloads via CSI Integration (video)
- Shuichi Ihara, DDN
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| 15:45-16:15
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HALO: A New System for Lustre HA Management (video)
- Thomas Bertschinger, LANL
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| 16:15-16:45
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Mount IAM Security Model with Lustre (video)
- Di Wang, Google
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| 16:45-17:15
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Empowering HPC and AI Workloads with Optimized Lustre Reliability and Performance (video)
- Duncan Vogel and Zanhua Huang, AWS
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| 17:15-17:30
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Closing Remarks
- OpenSFS Board
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Thursday, Apr 30 – Day 3
Developer Day
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