Date	Nov 19 from 8:45am to 1:30pm (Central Time)
Venue	Zoom meeting

The 5th annual DAOS User Group meeting was held around SC21.
Due to the pandemic situation, the DUG was virtual this year with live presentations.
No registration required.

Agenda

Please find below the DUG agenda (Central time). Youtube playlist with all the videos is available here.

Time (CT)	Presentation
8:45am	Gathering
8:50am	Welcome & DAOS Update (video) Kelsey Prantis, Director of DAOS engineering, Intel AXG
9:00am	DAOS Async API Support & Performance Tunning in Spark (video) Jiafu Zhang, Big Data Machine Learning Engineer, Intel SATG
9:20am	DAOS Feature Update (video) Liang Zhen, DAOS architect, Intel AXG
9:40am	Status and Roadmap of ROOT's RNTuple and DAOS (video) Javier Lopez Gomez, EP R&D Fellow, CERN
10:00am	High Energy Physics experiment data processing with DAOS in multi-tier storage environment based on RSC Storage on-Demand (video) Martin Vala, Senior Researcher, JINR Anton Brekhov, Team Lead, RSC Group
10:20am	Break
10:30am	Leveraging DAOS storage system for seismic data storage (video) Omar Marzouk, Associate Software Engineer, Brightskies
10:50pm	Lenovo Update (video) Sigrun Eggerling, DAOS POC Lead, Lenovo Steve Eiland, HPC Storage Product Management, Lenovo
11:10am	Assessment of DAOS as a backend for ECMWF's FDB (video) Nicolau Manubens, Analyst, ECMWF
11:30am	Moving DAOS from a Lab to a Commercial Offering (video) Darren Soothill, VP of Presales, Croit
11:50am	Break
12:00pm	Tools to Migrate and Store DAOS containers on POSIX filesystems (video) Danielle Sikich, DAOS developer, Intel AXG
12:20pm	DAOS Updates from HPE (video) Lance Evans, HPC CTO Chief Storage Architect, HPE
12:40pm	Update on Omni-Path Express Support for DAOS (video) Paul Stasurak, Program Manager for Storage, Cornelis Networks
1:00pm	DAOS on Google Cloud Platform (video) Carlos Boneti, HPC Software Engineer, Google Johann Lombardi, Lead DAOS architect, Intel AXG
1:20pm	Closing remarks Kelsey Prantis, Direct of DAOS Engineering, Intel AXG
1:30pm	End of conference

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