From admin at opensfs.org Wed May 1 20:38:41 2019 From: admin at opensfs.org (OpenSFS Administration) Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 13:38:41 -0700 Subject: [Discuss] *** Reminder for LUG'19 registration! *** Message-ID: <004301d5005d$dd42d1c0$97c87540$@opensfs.org> Registration for The 17th Annual Lustre User Group Conference is closing soon! The regular registration fee is ending Monday, May 6, 2019. May 15-17, 2019 University of Houston Student Center 4455 University Drive Houston, TX 77204 LUG 2019 is the industry's primary venue for discussion and seminars on the Lustre parallel file system and other open source file system technologies. Don't miss your chance to actively participate in industry dialogue on best practices and emerging technologies, explore upcoming developments of the Lustre file system, and immerse in the strong Lustre community. The LUG 2019 conference website (conference.cacds.uh.edu ) has all the latest information, including how to obtain the LUG 2019 group rates at the conference hotel and information on all of the planned networking events. PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS-Tuesday, May 14 This year's LUG conference offers two brand new tutorial sessions, included in your registration fee. Space is limited so be sure to register early. The below session content is tentative and subject to change: Lustre for New Users: 8:00am to 12:00-This session will introduce the Lustre operating platform to new users. It is a hands-on session that will allow users to familiarize themselves with Lustre before the conference begins. Topics to be covered include: Structure of the file system; underlying Filesystem types; how to install; how to configure inet; how to create a Filesystem; how to mount on clients; configuring user mapping; striping and OST pools and much more. Lustre Day to Day Operations Session for Systems Administrators: 1:00pm to 5:00pm-This session is designed for users already familiar with the Lustre platform and who wish to take their depth of knowledge to the next level. Topics to be discussed are system crashes; LNet configuration/tuning; Luster HA/failover; understanding the Lustre recovery process; Lustre DNE; changing a server NID; writeconf process; adding a new OST; and Lustre monitoring. Welcoming Reception: 6pm to 9pm-Meet fellow attendees in this event sponsored by Whamcloud 2019 Networking Events: St Arnolds Brewery: May 15, 6pm to 9pm-- St. Arnold Brewing Company is Texas' oldest craft brewery, founded in 1994. They brew a wide variety of beers, some year-round, some seasonal, and some single batch. We will provide transportation to and from the brewery with stops at the UH Hilton and the downtown conference hotels (Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites). Please join us for this event in the Investor's Pub, which we have reserved for LUG-2019 attendees.. This event includes an optional tour of the brewery, games, hors d'oeuvres and of course, cold beer. UH Gameroom Night: May 16, 6pm to 9pm-- The UH Gameroom is located in the basement of the Student Center, two floors below our conference location. Join us for an evening of bowling, pool, and ping pong. (There are also video games and an air hockey table available). We will also bring in a Tex-Mex buffet of beef/chicken and grilled vegetable fajitas with all the fixings (guacamole, salsa, sour cream, cheese, rice and beans). We have the entire facility reserved for our exclusive use this evening. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From admin at opensfs.org Mon May 6 17:22:50 2019 From: admin at opensfs.org (OpenSFS Administration) Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 10:22:50 -0700 Subject: [Discuss] Closing Today: LUG Regular Registration Message-ID: <003a01d50430$56bd8560$04389020$@opensfs.org> Regular registration for The 17th Annual Lustre User Group Conference closes today. Be sure to register by the end of Monday, May 6, 2019 to secure your registration at the regular attendee price. LUG registration will increase to $750 on May 7th. May 15-17, 2019 University of Houston Student Center 4455 University Drive Houston, TX 77204 LUG 2019 is the industry's primary venue for discussion and seminars on the Lustre parallel file system and other open source file system technologies. Don't miss your chance to actively participate in industry dialogue on best practices and emerging technologies, explore upcoming developments of the Lustre file system, and immerse in the strong Lustre community. The LUG 2019 conference website (conference.cacds.uh.edu ) has all the latest information, including how to obtain the LUG 2019 group rates at the conference hotel and information on all of the planned networking events. PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS-Tuesday, May 14 This year's LUG conference offers two brand new tutorial sessions, included in your registration fee. Space is limited so be sure to register early. The below session content is tentative and subject to change: Lustre for New Users: 8:00am to 12:00-This session will introduce the Lustre operating platform to new users. It is a hands-on session that will allow users to familiarize themselves with Lustre before the conference begins. Topics to be covered include: Structure of the file system; underlying Filesystem types; how to install; how to configure inet; how to create a Filesystem; how to mount on clients; configuring user mapping; striping and OST pools and much more. Lustre Day to Day Operations Session for Systems Administrators: 1:00pm to 5:00pm-This session is designed for users already familiar with the Lustre platform and who wish to take their depth of knowledge to the next level. Topics to be discussed are system crashes; LNet configuration/tuning; Luster HA/failover; understanding the Lustre recovery process; Lustre DNE; changing a server NID; writeconf process; adding a new OST; and Lustre monitoring. Welcoming Reception: 6pm to 9pm-Meet fellow attendees in this event sponsored by Whamcloud 2019 Networking Events: St Arnolds Brewery: May 15, 6pm to 9pm-- St. Arnold Brewing Company is Texas' oldest craft brewery, founded in 1994. They brew a wide variety of beers, some year-round, some seasonal, and some single batch. We will provide transportation to and from the brewery with stops at the UH Hilton and the downtown conference hotels (Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites). Please join us for this event in the Investor's Pub, which we have reserved for LUG-2019 attendees.. This event includes an optional tour of the brewery, games, hors d'oeuvres and of course, cold beer. UH Gameroom Night: May 16, 6pm to 9pm-- The UH Gameroom is located in the basement of the Student Center, two floors below our conference location. Join us for an evening of bowling, pool, and ping pong. (There are also video games and an air hockey table available). We will also bring in a Tex-Mex buffet of beef/chicken and grilled vegetable fajitas with all the fixings (guacamole, salsa, sour cream, cheese, rice and beans). We have the entire facility reserved for our exclusive use this evening. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From admin at opensfs.org Wed May 29 22:00:15 2019 From: admin at opensfs.org (OpenSFS Administration) Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 15:00:15 -0700 Subject: [Discuss] Resource Availability: Why Lustre Overview Message-ID: <006201d51669$e5e820b0$b1b86210$@opensfs.org> The OpenSFS Board has created a one-page "Why Lustre?" overview document to help communicate the advantages of Lustre to potential new users. This document is available on the OpenSFS website at the following URL: http://opensfs.org/why-lustre We would welcome your input on the document. Please email any feedback or suggestions to admin at opensfs.org. Best Regards, OpenSFS Administration From admin at opensfs.org Thu May 30 23:19:43 2019 From: admin at opensfs.org (OpenSFS Administration) Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 16:19:43 -0700 Subject: [Discuss] June 10th Deadline: Lustre Benchmark Submissions to IO500 Message-ID: <009701d5173e$2a3894a0$7ea9bde0$@opensfs.org> OpenSFS encourages the Lustre community to submit benchmarks results to the IO500 list. Deadline is June 10th, 2019. Please see below for details and also a talk from Andreas Dilger on IO500 titled as “IO-500 - A Storage Benchmark for HPC” presented at LUG2019: https://conference.cacds.uh.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/LUG2019-IO500-Dil ger.pdf Best Regards, OpenSFS Administration Call for Submission Deadline: 10 June 2019 AoE The IO500 is now accepting and encouraging submissions for the upcoming 4th IO500 list to be revealed at ISC-HPC 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany. Once again, we are also accepting submissions to the 10 node I/O challenge to encourage submission of small scale results. The new ranked lists will be announced at our ISC19 BoF [2]. We hope to see you, and your results, there. The benchmark suite is designed to be easy to run and the community has multiple active support channels to help with any questions. Please submit and we look forward to seeing many of you at ISC 2019! Please note that submissions of all size are welcome; the site has customizable sorting so it is possible to submit on a small system and still get a very good per-client score for example. Additionally, the list is about much more than just the raw rank; all submissions help the community by collecting and publishing a wider corpus of data. More details below. Following the success of the Top500 in collecting and analyzing historical trends in supercomputer technology and evolution, the IO500 was created in 2017, published its first list at SC17, and has grown exponentially since then. The need for such an initiative has long been known within High-Performance Computing; however, defining appropriate benchmarks had long been challenging. Despite this challenge, the community, after long and spirited discussion, finally reached consensus on a suite of benchmarks and a metric for resolving the scores into a single ranking. The multi-fold goals of the benchmark suite are as follows: 1. Maximizing simplicity in running the benchmark suite 2. Encouraging complexity in tuning for performance 3. Allowing submitters to highlight their “hero run” performance numbers 4. Forcing submitters to simultaneously report performance for challenging IO patterns. Specifically, the benchmark suite includes a hero-run of both IOR and mdtest configured however possible to maximize performance and establish an upper-bound for performance. It also includes an IOR and mdtest run with highly prescribed parameters in an attempt to determine a lower-bound. Finally, it includes a namespace search as this has been determined to be a highly sought-after feature in HPC storage systems that has historically not been well-measured. Submitters are encouraged to share their tuning insights for publication. The goals of the community are also multi-fold: 1. Gather historical data for the sake of analysis and to aid predictions of storage futures 2. Collect tuning information to share valuable performance optimizations across the community 3. Encourage vendors and designers to optimize for workloads beyond “hero runs” 4. Establish bounded expectations for users, procurers, and administrators 10 Node I/O Challenge At ISC, we will announce our second IO-500 award for the 10 Node Challenge. This challenge is conducted using the regular IO-500 benchmark, however, with the rule that exactly 10 computes nodes must be used to run the benchmark (one exception is find, which may use 1 node). You may use any shared storage with, e.g., any number of servers. When submitting for the IO-500 list, you can opt-in for “Participate in the 10 compute node challenge only”, then we won't include the results into the ranked list. Other 10 compute node submission will be included in the full list and in the ranked list. We will announce the result in a separate derived list and in the full list but not on the ranked IO-500 list at io500.org< http://io500.org>. Birds-of-a-feather Once again, we encourage you to submit [1], to join our community, and to attend our BoF “The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O” at ISC 2019 [2] where we will announce the fourth IO500 list and second 10 node challenge list. The current list includes results from BeeGPFS, DataWarp, IME, Lustre, Spectrum Scale, and WekaIO. We hope that the next list has even more. We look forward to answering any questions or concerns you might have. § [1] http://io500.org/submission § [2] The BoF schedule will be announced soon” -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: