| Date | September 30th – October 1st, 2026 |
| Venue | Les Salons de l’Hôtel des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France |
Like every year, this is a great opportunity for Lustre administrators and developers from around the world to gather and exchange their experiences, developments, tools, best practices and much more.
Registration
Registration is opened over at https://www.billetweb.fr/lad-26.
If you have any question or issue, don’t hesitate to send a mail to lad@cea.fr.
Agenda
Wednesday, September 30th 2026
- 08:30: Registration and coffee
- 09:00: Welcome Pierre Coudercy, CEA
- 09:30: Lustre Community Update Peter Jones, TLC (slides)
- 10:00: Lustre 2.18 and Beyond Andreas Dilger, TLC (slides)
- 10:30: Break
- 10:45: Upstreaming: Final Requirements James Simmons, ORNL (slides)
- 11:15: Current Status of Lustre and Other Open Source File Systems at HPE Torben Kling Petersen, HPE (slides)
- 11:45: Lustre and AI-Assisted Development and Testing Oleg Drokin, DDN (slides)
- 12:15: Lunch
- 14:00: How LDISKFS Makes EXT4 Better (and Vice Versa) Artem Blagodarenko, TLC (slides)
- 14:30: Beyond RAID6: md-kmec, Many-Parity Software RAID for Lustre OSTs Hiroshi Nishida and Artem Blagodarenko, TLC (slides)
- 15:00: Lustre File Data Resiliency in 2.18: Erasure Coding with Friends Marc-André Vef, DDN (slides)
- 15:30: Break
- 15:50: Lustre Network Scheduler Chris Horn, DDN (slides)
- 16:20: GSSIAM: Identity and Access Managed Lustre Mounts for Multi-Tenant and Cloud Deployments Sebastien Buisson, DDN (slides)
- 16:50: Maintaining Lustre Write Performance on NVMe RAID with TRIM Daniel Landau and Dmitry Livshits, Xinnor (slides)
- 17:20: End of Sessions (1st day)
- 20:15: Social Event: Dinner
- 23:00/00:00: End of social event
Thursday, October 1st 2026
- 08:45: Coffee
- 09:10: Review of CSI Approaches for Lustre on Kubernetes Matt Raso-Barnett, TLC (slides)
- 09:40: Lustre on Shingles: Enabling SMR HDDs with XFS Matias Bjørling, Western Digital (slides)
- 10:10: Break
- 10:30: Making Lustre Boring: An Open-Source Ansible Collection for Deploying and Operating Lustre Gerhard Wolf, NetApp (slides)
- 11:00: Building Lustre – in Docker Experiences @ HU Berlin Detlev Conrad Mielczarek, HU (slides)
- 11:30: Migrating a Lustre-HSM filesystem (easily) Guillaume Courrier, CEA (slides)
- 12:00: Lunch
- 14:00: RobinHood v4 Progress Report Gauthier Evraerd and Yoann Valeri, CEA (slides)
- 14:30: From lustre-db to LimScaup: Open-Source Metadata Analytics for Lustre and Beyond Janos Blum, DKRZ (slides)
- 15:00: Lustre Find Utility (LFU) Artem Blagodarenko, TLC (slides)
- 15:30: Break
- 15:50: Parallel Tools for Large-Scale File Migration and Verification on HPC Storage Systems Sergey Noskov, JGU (slides)
- 16:20: Lustre Breaker Quentin Aniere, CEA (slides)
- 16:50: Wrap up
- 17:00: End of Sessions (2nd day)
Important dates
| Call For Paper | Registration – Early Bird | Registration – Regular rate | LAD’26 |
| April 10th -> September 4th | June 1st -> September 6th | September 7th -> September 20th | September 30th -> October 1st |
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Venue
LAD’26 will take place at the Salons de l’Hôtel des Arts et Métiers, Paris.
Between the Arc de Triomphe and the Trocadéro, this nineteenth century private mansion has been the headquarters of the Société des Ingénieurs des Arts et Métiers since 1925.
9 bis, avenue d’Iéna
75116 Paris
Social event
MADAME BRASSERIE IN THE EIFFEL TOWER
The social event will take place on the evening of Wednesday September 30th in one of the most famous bar-restaurant in Paris: the Madame Brasserie restaurant in the Eiffel Tower.
Madame Brasserie
Tour Eiffel, Av. Gustave Eiffel, 75007 Paris