Lustre User Group 2026

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	Welcoming Remarks Megan Larko, OpenSFS; Tom Crowe, IU
09:30-10:00	Lustre Community Update (video) Peter Jones, The Lustre Collective
10:30-11:30	Lustre 2.18 and Beyond (video) Andreas Dilger, The Lustre Collective
11:30-12:00	Lustre Upstreaming Efforts Progress (video) James Simmons, ORNL
13:00-13:15	DDN Sponsor Talk - LLM Experiments Morris Skupinsky, DDN
13:15-13:45	Lustre in the Works (video) Sebastien Buisson, DDN
13:45-14:15	Lustre Transition to Folio I/O (video) Shaun Tancheff, HPE
14:15-14:45	Status of Lustre's Hybrid I/O (video) Marc-Andre Vef, DDN
15:15-15:45	Lustre File Data Resilience - Erasure Coding with Friends (video) Patrick Farrell, The Lustre Collective
15:45-16:15	Lustre Metadata Redundancy (video) Oleg Drokin, Lai Siyao, DDN
16:15-17:00	OpenSFS Update OpenSFS Board
17:30-21:30	Networking and Social Event - The Rathskeller Restaurant

Wednesday, Apr 29 – Day 2

09:00-9:30	The MLPerf Benchmark and Lustre (video) Ellis Wilson, Microsoft
09:30-10:00	Enhancing Lustre for Modern AI (video) Sergei Platonov, Xinnor
10:30-11:00	LNet Observability and Monitoring (video) Timothy Day, The Lustre Collective
11:00-11:30	Data Management Practices on Large Multi-Tier Lustre Filesystems (video) Richard Mohr, Ethan Frenza, Brad Gipson, Jesse Hanley, ORNL
11:30-12:00	Tips and Tricks for Empowering LLMs with Lustre Knowledge (video) Ellis Wilson, Microsoft
13:00-13:15	AWS Sponsor Talk AWS
13:15-13:45	Practical Multi-Tenancy for HPC/Cloud in 2026 (video) Robert Read, Matt Raso-Barnett, The Lustre Collective
13:45-14:15	Operational Lessons and Case Studies from OCI's Managed Lustre Service (video) Aboo Valappi, Sonia Sharma, Vinod Johnson, Oracle
14:15-14:45	High Performance Cloud-Native Lustre on Object Storage with Active-Active HA (video) Supramani Sammandam, Zettalane Systems
15:15-15:45	Lustre on Kubernetes: Leveraging Advanced Lustre Features for AI/HPC Workloads via CSI Integration (video) Shuichi Ihara, DDN
15:45-16:15	HALO: A New System for Lustre HA Management (video) Thomas Bertschinger, LANL
16:15-16:45	Mount IAM Security Model with Lustre (video) Di Wang, Google
16:45-17:15	Empowering HPC and AI Workloads with Optimized Lustre Reliability and Performance (video) Duncan Vogel and Zanhua Huang, AWS
17:15-17:30	Closing Remarks OpenSFS Board

Thursday, Apr 30 – Day 3

Developer Day

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