Lustre User Group 2019

LUG 2019 was held in Houston, Texas from May 14th-19th, 2019 at the University of Houston. For the first time this year, the agenda included two open tutorial sessions on the opening day for new and experienced users and administrators to learn about Lustre. Additionally, the Lustre Developer Day 2019 was held on May 14th.

LUG 2019 Agenda

Tuesday, May 14th

8:00am	Lustre New Users Tutorial Michael Timmerman, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1:00pm	Lustre Day‐to‐Day Operations Tutorial Dustin Leverman, ORNL & Rick Mohr, University of Tennessee

Wednesday, May 15th

8:45am	Opening Remarks OpenSFS/University of Houston
9:00am	Community Release Update (video) Peter Jones, Whamcloud
9:30am	IML Overview and Roadmap (video) Joe Grund, Whamcloud
10:30am	Lustre 2.13 and beyond (video) Andreas Dilger, Whamcloud
11:00am	Flexible Lustre Management (video) James Simmons, ORNL
11:30am	Lustre - A view from the outside (video) Neil Brown, SUSE
1:30pm	Lustre Security Update (video) Sébastien Buisson, Whamcloud
2:00pm	Long Distance Lustre Communication Raj Gautam, ExxonMobil
2:30pm	LNet Features Overview Amir Shehata, Whamcloud
3:30pm	A Quantitative Approach to Architecting All-flash Lustre File Systems Kirill Lozinskiy, LBNL/NERSC
4:00pm	Performance Evaluation of Lustre on All‐Flash Storage System at OIST Koji Tanaka, OIST Graduate University
4:20pm	Lustre Optimizations and Improvements for Flash Storage Shuichi Ihara, Whamcloud
4:30pm	Flash Based Lustre Filesystem for the Arm‐based Supercomputer‐Astra Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories
5:00pm	Hybrid Flash/Disk Storage Systems with Lustre Nathan Rutman, Cray

Thursday, May 16th

8:45am	Sponsor Presentation - Kmesh Vinay Gaonkar, Kmesh
9:00am	Lustre on Public Clouds‐Opportunities, Challenges & Learning Saravanan Purushothaman, Kmesh
9:30am	Managing Lustre on AWS Andy Pollock and Aurélien Degrémont, Amazon
10:30am	HSM, Data Movement, Tiering, Layouts and More Ben Evans, Cray
11:00am	Smart Policies for Data Placement and Storage Tiering of Lustre Xi Li, Whamcloud
11:30am	Robinhood Reports: A New Robinhood Web Front to Help Users Find Their Data Shawn Hall, NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group)
1:30pm	Sponsor Presentation - DDN Craig Vershon, DDN
1:45pm	Migratefs: Overlay Filesystem for Transparent, Distributed Migration of Active Data Stéphane Thiell, Stanford
2:05pm	Lustre 2.12 In Production Stéphane Thiell, Stanford
2:15pm	Cross‐tier Unified Namespace Update Mohamad Chaarawi, Intel
2:45pm	EOFS update Peter Jones, EOFS
2:50pm	LAD'19 Announcement CEA
2:55pm	OpenSFS update OpenSFS
3:45pm	A Performance Study of Lustre File System Checker: Bottlenecks and Potentials Dong Dai, UNC Charlotte
4:15pm	Lustre in the Compute Canada Federation and the Deployment of Beluga Simon Guilbault, Calcul Québec

Friday, May 17th

8:45am	Sponsor Presentation - Cray Cray
9:00am	Un‐scratching Lustre Cameron Harr, LLNL
9:30am	Introducing Pool Quotas Cory Spitz, Cray
10:00am	Layering ZFS Pools on Lustre Rick Mohr, University of Tennessee
11:00am	Lustre Overstriping‐Improving Shared File Write Performance Patrick Farrell, Whamcloud
11:30am	Solving I/O Slowdown: DoM, DNE and PFL Working Together John Fragalla and William Loewe, Cray
12:00pm	IO-500 - A Storage Benchmark for HPC Andreas Dilger, Whamcloud