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Tuesday  Wednesday

All events are at Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center unless otherwise noted.  

Monday, March 31

TimeTitleDescriptionType/Duration
5:30 PMLUG’25 Opening Reception Dinner ReceptionSocial (2h)

Tuesday, April 1 

All April 1 slides in one PDF

TimeTitlePresenterType/Duration
8:00 AMWelcome/Breakfast  
9:15 AMWelcome TalkOpenSFS and Stanford University, LUG'25Start
9:30 AMKeynote TalkMarcelo Alvarez, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and CosmologyTalk (30min)
10:00 AMLustre Community UpdatePeter Jones, Whamcloud/DDNTalk (30min)
10:30 AMBreak 30 minutes Break (30min)
11:00 AMStreamlining AI Checkpoints: automatic data migration to object storeAurélien Degrémont, NVIDIATalk (30min)
11:30 AMLustre upstreaming effortsJames Simmons, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryTalk (30min)
12:00 PMLunch 1h Lunch (1h)
1:00 PMDDN sponsor talkEXAScaler Feature OverviewSponsor Talk (15min)
1:15 PMALCF Site UpdateAlex Kulyavtsev, Argonne National LaboratoryTalk (30min)
1:45 PMSandia Labs Lustre Filesystem Customer IO Dos mitigation using NRS Token Bucket filtersMichael Aguilar and Jason Peter, Sandia National LaboratoriesTalk (30min)
2:15 PMAmazon FSx for Lustre and Open SourceTimothy Day, AWSTalk (30min)
2:45 PMBreak / Student Mixer Event Break (45min)
3:30 PMImpact of Data Loader Caching on Lustre: A Hybrid I/O ApproachRajeev Mishra, Hewlett Packard EnterpriseTalk (30min)
4:00 PMOpenSFS UpdateOpenSFS BoardEvent (1h)
5:00 PMEnd of program for day 1 End
5:30 PMSocial Event at Barebottle Brewing Co.Transportation will be providedSocial (4h)

Wednesday, April 2

All April 2 slides in one PDF

TimeTitlePresenterType/Duration
8:00 AMWelcome/Breakfast  
9:00 AMLustre 2.17 and BeyondAndreas Dilger, Whamcloud/DDNTalk (1h)
10:00 AMBreak Break (30min)
10:30 AMRocks, Rabbits and Snakes, Oh my! - Lustre in LCCameron Harr, Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryTalk (30min)
11:00 AMLustre Multi-TenancySebastien Buisson, Whamcloud/DDNTalk (30min)
11:30 AMLustre DNE3 - Busting the small files mythSteve Crusan, Hudson TradingTalk (30min)
12:00 PMLunch 1h Lunch (1h)
1:00 PMAWS Sponsor Talk Sponsor Talk (15min)
1:15 PMAll-flash multinode High Availability for Lustre disaggregated implementationsDaniel Landau and Davide Villa, XinnorTalk (30min)
1:45 PMNCSA Lustre Site UpdateJ.D. Maloney, National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsTalk (30min)
2:15 PMLustre Timeout HierarchyChris Horn, Hewlett Packard EnterpriseTalk (30min)
2:45 PM Break Break (30min)
3:15 PMRobinhood 4: the policy engine toolboxGuillaume Courrier, CEATalk (30min)
3:45 PMPanel Q&A

Panelists:
Julie Bernauer – Director, Data Center Systems Engineering at NVIDIA
Andreas Dilger – Lustre Principal Architect at Whamcloud/DDN
Cameron Harr – Lustre operations lead and I/O Strategist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
JD Maloney – Lead HPC Storage Engineer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Panel (1h)
4:45 PMClosing RemarksOpenSFSClosing Remarks
5:00 PMEnd of program for day 2 - End of LUG'25 End