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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

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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
      1. 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. PURO is situated close 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:It is situated in a
        1. walking distance from PSNC: 5-8 minutes (depending on how quick you are)
      1. it is also close to the nice district with cathedral as well as 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 - 180 PLN / ~55 EUR
      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