Cray User Group: Day One
May. 9th, 2016 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylFirst full day of the conference with an interesting morning session on power monitoring and management — far more interesting than it sound — which has left me full of exciting new ideas. Had lunch with an old friend from DMI and we caught up on the last decade and discussed some of new ideas inspired by the sessions.
Sat in on the afternoon session on the replacement for ESL. Sounds like the technology is headed in the right direction, with much tighter integration between CLE and the external services using OpenStack to automate the deployment process. I think I need time to digest it before drawing any serious conclusions but it's hard not to feel that it's going to be painful to use unless someone comes up with a way to ease migrate from the current offering to the eLogin solution. Still he session was short and we had a nice chat with the presenter afterwards.
The final session was a BOF on storage monitoring which involved lots of very clever people talking about the sorts of ways they might be able measure the performance of lustre with pin-point accuracy. It was so far beyond anything we've thought about, it was almost irrelevant.
The evening featured an event at the Dickens Inn in St Katherine's Dock. I got caught in the rain on the way and the place was heaving when I arrived. I got talking to Altair and we went out for a curry — my second of the conference — with their CTO and a fun evening was had by all.
Sat in on the afternoon session on the replacement for ESL. Sounds like the technology is headed in the right direction, with much tighter integration between CLE and the external services using OpenStack to automate the deployment process. I think I need time to digest it before drawing any serious conclusions but it's hard not to feel that it's going to be painful to use unless someone comes up with a way to ease migrate from the current offering to the eLogin solution. Still he session was short and we had a nice chat with the presenter afterwards.
The final session was a BOF on storage monitoring which involved lots of very clever people talking about the sorts of ways they might be able measure the performance of lustre with pin-point accuracy. It was so far beyond anything we've thought about, it was almost irrelevant.
The evening featured an event at the Dickens Inn in St Katherine's Dock. I got caught in the rain on the way and the place was heaving when I arrived. I got talking to Altair and we went out for a curry — my second of the conference — with their CTO and a fun evening was had by all.
