Hello Lustre community members,

We hope you’re planning to join us for this year’s Supercomputing (SC’14) conference, which is being held in New Orleans, November 17-20th. OpenSFS will be hosting a booth, as well as several sessions on the Lustre® file system. As a member of the Lustre community, we hope you will mark your calendars to attend the following events:

 

·         SC’14 BoF Session: The Lustre® Community – At the Heart of HPC and Big Data

o    Tuesday, November 18th: 12:15-1:15pm in Room(s) 275-76-77

o    Speakers include: Eric Barton, Intel; Chris Morrone, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Nathan Rutman, Seagate Technology; Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Hugo Falter, EOFS

·         OpenSFS Community Update

o    Wednesday, November 19th: 1:30-2:00pm at the Seagate booth (#3239)

o    Steve Simms, OpenSFS Community Board member, Indiana University

·         OpenSFS booth party – stop by to join us for drinks and meet others in the community!

o    Wednesday, November 19th: 4:00-6:00pm at the OpenSFS booth (#2524)

·         Daily Technical Sessions: have questions about Lustre features, want to know how others are using Lustre? OpenSFS will be hosting dedicated sessions throughout SC’14 to “talk shop” with a Lustre expert. Feel free to join us throughout the show during the following times to learn more about Lustre:

o    Tuesday, November 18th: 2:30-3pm (Lustre tutorial)

o    Wednesday, November 19th: 11:00-11:30am (Lustre tutorial), 1:00-2:00pm (Lustre expert Q&A), 2:00-2:30pm (Lustre tutorial), 4:00-5:00pm (Lustre expert Q&A)

o    Thursday, November 20th: 11-11:30am (Lustre tutorial), 1:00-2:00pm (Lustre expert Q&A)

Lastly, we encourage you to spread the word about the SC events planned for the Lustre community! More information is available on our web site. We have also prepared the attached social media/website content for your marketing teams to use in promoting SC’14.

 

We look forward to seeing you at SC’14 and encourage you to take advantage of the opportunities to join these events!

 

Sincerely,

OpenSFS Administration 

 

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