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7-8 April, 2016

Poznan, Poland

The GÉANT Task Force on storage (TF-Storage) coordinates the development of open and inter-operable data storage and management infrastructures and services among national research and education networks and academic and research institutions.

In Poznan, an OpenStack Swift hands-on tutorial will be organized for the benefit of the TF-Storage community. Everybody is encouraged to participate in the hands-on session regardless of your technical knowledge and experience with SWIFT. Staff will be there to assist you!

Venue

PSNC's new building

Poznan, Poland

Accommodation

We recommend you the following hotels:

  1. PURO Hotel - http://en.purohotel.pl/poznan
    1. price per night - 350 PLN / ~85 EUR 
    2. hotel-venue:
      1. 15 mintues by public transport (one tram line ~4 stops) from PSNC
      2. alternatively: 30 minutes from PSNC if you take a nice walk or 10 minutes by bike - there is a quite well working system of city bikes - you can take them for low cost or for free if for less than 30 minutes, automated rent stations are located very close to hotel and to PSNC.
    3. surroundings: close to the old market square in Poznan
  2. Hotel Śródka - http://www.hotelsrodka.pl
    1. price per night - 240 PLN / ~55 EUR
    2. hotel-venue:
      1. walking distance from PSNC: 5-8 minutes (depending on how quick you are)
    3. sourroundings: in the old district (being currently renovate and revived, close to cathedral and Malta lake (where you can do some sports if interested)
  3. IBIS Hotel Poznan - http://www.ibis.com/gb/booking/hotels-list.shtml
    1. price per night - 160 PLN / ~37 EUR single room, 180 PLN / 42 EUR double room
    2. hotel-venue:
      1. walking distance from PSNC: ~15-20 minutes (depending on how quick you are)
    3. sourroundings: close to Warta river, also a good starting point for old market square and malta lake

Remote participation

Call-in details will be distributed on the storage mailing list.

 

Quick links

Registration is OPEN

Venue

DRAFT Agenda

Thursday,  7 April 2016

Arrival

Arrival and registration, welcome coffee

10.00-12.00

Introduction to OpenStack Swift, updates and roadmap

Joe Topjian, Cybera

 
  • Use-cases and scenarios
 
  • Q&A
12.00-13.00Lunch
13.00-15.00

Tutorial and hands-on: Part I.

  • A brief introduction and overview of Swift
  • Deploying Swift in production
  • Difficulties running Swift in production
  • Learning to love Swift

For those who don't attend - separate room will be prepared

15.00-15.30Coffee
15.30-18.30

Tutorial and hands-on: Part II.

  • Recovering from failure
  • Setting and Managing Quotas
  • Tracking Usage
  • Syncing Containers
  • Static Web
  • Handling Large Objects

For those who don't attend - separate room will be prepared

Social dinner at 8pm TBC...

Friday, 8 April 2016

09:00-11.00

Object / cloud storage systems and their deployments:

  • Vendor's slot: TBC
    • EMC's software for cloud storage and orchestration: ECS, ScaleIO and ViPR (TBC)
    • ...
  • NREN's slot: 
    • PROPOSALS WELCOME!!!
11.00-11.30Coffee
11.30-13.00

Platforms for cloud storage:

  • Hardware platforms vendor slot:
    • Low-energy server platforms for Software Defined Storage (Dominik Dziarczykowski, Huawei Poland)
  • NRENs slot: test/benchmarking results, analyses:
    • PROPOSALS WELCOME!!!

 

13.00-14.00Lunch
13.30-14.30

Beyond storage (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, green computing etc.)

  • Green IaaS/HPC platform
  • Storage TCO and hardware "guide"
  • Contribution to SIG-CBP
15.30-16.00Visit to PSNC data center - DLC cooled HPC and Green storage platforms
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