DDN USER GROUP AT SC18
The DDN User Group at SC is an annual conference that brings together the best and brightest scientists, researchers and technologists to share and learn how leading global HPC organizations are executing cutting-edge initiatives that are transforming the world. Watch videos from the 2018 DDN User Group at SC18.
The goal of the event is to gather the community during SC to discover how HPC organizations are assessing and leveraging technology to raise the bar on HPC innovations and best practices. From exciting user presentations to engaging roundtable conversations and groundbreaking technology updates, this can’t-miss event delivers the ideas and inspiration to help your cutting-edge HPC initiatives transform the world.
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SC18 USER GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Sven Oehme, Chief Research Officer, DDN
As data centric workloads and application stacks emerge in our information driven world, i/o requirements are challenging current architectures and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Sven will talk about how DDN is addressing these challenges today, as well as innovations DDN is working on for the future.
Steve Hindmarsh, Head of Scientific Computing, Francis Crick Institute - Research Computing Storage at the Francis Crick Institute
This talk provides an overview of the institute’s research computing storage platform from its introduction in 2016, evolution and plans for the future. We will share our experience of implementing a very large storage system in a challenging life sciences environment.
Michael Holliday, Sr. HPC and Research Data Systems Engineer, Francis Crick Institute - Research Computing Storage at the Francis Crick Institute - Part 2
This talk provides an overview of the institute’s research computing storage platform from its introduction in 2016, evolution and plans for the future. We will share our experience of implementing a very large storage system in a challenging life sciences environment.
Alf Wachsmann, Head of Scientific Computing, Max Delbrück Center für Molecular Medicine
MDC has received a loaner AI200 NVMe-over-InfiniBand device from DDN that was connected to MDC’s NVIDIA DGX-1. We have used this setup for benchmarking the DL algorithm to estimate the total runtime of this project. We will present the results of these early tests.
Brock Palen, Director Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services, The University of Michigan
As a campus wide service provider Advanced Research Computing - Technology Services (ARC-TS) strives to meet the needs of the University of Michigan's large number of departments. Here Brock covers how they evaluated the use of our storage systems and established three tiers of storage to address our needs, while controlling complexity.
HPC Storage Panel at SC18 DDN User Group
Group panel at the DDN User Group at SC18, discussing "Convergence Has Happened: AI on HPC Platforms." Features: John Bent, DDN; Dean Hildebrand, Google Cloud; Brock Palen, University of Michigan; Raju Sheth, MBRDI; Vinil Vadakkepurakkal, MBRDI; and Alf Wachsmann, MDC.
James Coomer, Sr. Vice President of Products, DDN
This talk will cover new DDN platforms released in 2018, and what is to come in 2019. Performance details, use cases and user benefits will take center stage.
Robert Triendl, Senior Vice President of Sales, DDN
Whamcloud: Lustre for HPC and Ai In this video from DDN User Group at SC18, Robert Triendl describes how the company is building tomorrow's Exascale technology today.
Paul Bloch Welcome to DDN User Group
In this video, Paul Bloch, President and Co-Founder of DDN welcomes you to the DDN User Group