LAD12

EOFS

OpenSFS

Maison de la Chimie
Maison de la Chimie, Paris

LAD'12

September 24-25th, 2012 - France
La Maison de la Chimie, Paris

EOFS and OpenSFS are organizing the second European Lustre Workshop, now called Lustre Administrators and Developers Workshop. It will take place in Paris, at La Maison de la Chimie during 2 days, 24th and 25th of September, 2012.
This will be a great opportunity for LustreTM worldwide administrators and developers to gather and exchange their experiences, developments, tools, good practices and more.

Dates

This will be a two days event, starting from Monday, September 24th, 2012 in the morning, to Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 in the afternoon.

  • Presentations proposal deadline: July 31st, 2012
  • Workshop: September 24-25th, 2012

Agenda

LAD'12 Program Committee: EOFS and OpenSFS

Monday, September 24th, 2012

09:00 : Registration and Coffee

10:10 : Welcome and Logistics, Stéphane Thiell, CEA

10:20 : Update from Intel on the Whamcloud Acquisition and Joint statement by Intel, OpenSFS and EOFS, Norman Morse, Brent Gorda, Jacques-Charles Lafoucrière and Hugo Falter

10:30 : Lustre Releases, Peter Jones, Intel

11:00 : Lustre as a buffer and exchange area at TOTAL, Guy Chesnot, SGI France

11:30 : Lustre - finding the filesystem bottleneck, Daniel Kobras, science+computing ag

12:00 : Lustre at Exascale, Eric Barton, Intel

12:30 : Lunch

14:00 : Lustre Samba improvements, Alexey Lyashkov, Xyratex

14:30 : Lustre SMP scalability and data I/O performance on Bullx platforms, Grégoire Pichon, Bull

15:00 : Network Request Scheduler (NRS), Nikitas Angelinas, Xyratex

15:30 : Supporting Lustre Community Testing, Frank Heckes, JSC Forschungszentrum Jülich

16:00 : Coffee break

16:30 : HA metadata configuration for Lustre in CETA-CIEMAT and Incompatibilities between Grid software and Lustre, Alfonso Pardo Diaz, CETA-CIEMAT, Spain

17:00 : Virtualization for production class Lustre servers? Dr. Erich Focht, NEC Deutschland GmbH

17:30 : Shine - Open Source Lustre Administration Tool, Aurélien Degrémont, CEA

18:00 : End of session (1st day)

18:00 : Cocktail reception (sponsored by DataDirect Networks)

20:00 : Social Event (Dinner) at the Eiffel Tower

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

09:00 : Coffee

09:30 : Lustre failover experience, Francesco De Giorgi, eXact lab, Italy

10:00 : An overview of FEFS, a lustre-based filesystem, Kenichiro Sakai and Yuta Higuchi, Fujitsu Limited, Japan

10:30 : Coffee break

11:00 : Static Code Analysis with Coverity, Sébastien Buisson, Bull

11:30 : Ongoing effort to integrate the Lustre client into the upstream kernel, John Bent, EMC

12:00 : Exascale I/O Workgroup (EIOW), Nathan Rutman, Xyratex

12:30 : Lunch

14:00 : Simplifying Lustre operations with Chukwa & Hadoop, Travis Dawson, DataDirect Networks

14:30 : Lustre on ZFS, Andreas Dilger, Intel

15:00 : Improving Lustre Testing Framework, Nathan Rutman, Xyratex and Chris Gearing, Intel

15:45 : Lustre Upcoming Features, Andreas Dilger, Intel

16:00 : Coffee & Wrap up

Presentations

Presentation submission is now closed.

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Any questions? Contact us at lad2012(at)eofs.org

Venue

LAD'12 will be held in the Maison de la Chimie ("the House of Chemistry"), a prestigious historical site in the heart of the 7th district of Paris, France, located near the Palais Bourbon, the French National Assembly.

MAISON DE LA CHIMIE (Google Map)

28, rue Saint-Dominique

75007 PARIS

Transportation

The conference center is located near the metro stations Invalides (lines 8, 13 and RER C), Assemblée Nationale (line 12), and bus line 63 (Porte de la Muette - Gare de Lyon).

Hotels

Please make your room reservation as soon as possible, hotels tend to book fast at this time of year. Here is a sample of possible hotels:

Walking distance

    •    Hôtel Bourgogne & Montana (€€€€)
    •    Hôtel Bac Saint Germain (€€€)
    •    Hôtel Saint-Germain (€€€)
    •    Les Jardins d'Eiffel (€€€)
    •    Hôtel Royal Phare (€€)

By Metro

    •    Novotel Paris Vaugirard (€€) (line 12)
    •    Hôtel Mercure Paris XV (€€) (line 12)

Sponsors:

  • Bull

  • DDN

  • NetApp

  • Whamcloud

  • Xyratex