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9th DAOS User Group (DUG) at SC’25
November 16, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm UTC-6
Thank you for joining us for the 9th annual DAOS User Group (DUG) which took place November 16th, 2025 from 9am – 1pm CST, in St. Louis, MO. This user group meetup was an in person event co-located with Supercomputing’25.
You can view the recordings from the event here, and view slides for each presentation below.
Agenda:
- 9:00 – 9:05 Welcome/Introduction – DAOS Foundation Board
- 9:05 – 9:15 DAOS Foundation Update – Kevin Harms, Foundation Chair
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- 9:15 – 9:30 ORNL Update – Mike Brim, ORNL – View Slides
- 9:30 – 9:45 Enakta Update – Denis Nuja, Enakta
- 9:45 – 10:05 Bumps and Bliss in Cloud – Jeff Olivier and Dean Hildebrand, Google
- 10:05 – 10:25 DAOS 2.8 and Beyond – Johann Lombardi, TSC Chair – View Slides
- 10:25 – 10:40 BREAK
- 10:40 – 10:55 PyTorch +DAOS on Aurora – Kaushik Velusamy, Argonne – View Slides
- 10:55 – 11:10 Enabling DAOS Usage on User and Application Level: A Real World HPC Center Story – Steffen Christgau, Zuse-Institut Berlin (ZIB) – View Slides
- 11:10 – 11:25 DAOS at VDURA – Samantha Clarke, VDURA – View Slides
- 11:25 – 11:40 ALCF Update – Kevin Harms, Argonne – View Slides
- 11:40 – 11:55 The Future of Supercomputing Storage – Andrey Kudryavtsev, HPE – View Slides
- 11:55 – 12:10 DAOS Performance Update – Michael Hennecke, HPE – View Slides
- 12:10 – 12:25 Let DrAgOnS Train Your LLM – Pete Mendygral, HPE – View Slides
- 12:25 – 12:40. Building the Access Layer for DAOS – Denis Barakhtanov, Enakta – View Slides
- 12:40 – 12:55 DAOS Client: Progress & Plans – Mohamad Chaarawi, HPE – View Slides
- 12:55 – 13:00 DAOS Community Feedback and Opportunities, Q&A