9th DAOS User Group (DUG) at SC’25

Join us for the 9th annual DAOS User Group (DUG) taking place November 16th, 2025 from 9am – 1pm CST, in St. Louis, MO. No registration is required to attend. This user group meetup will be an in person event co-located with Supercomputing’25 – don’t miss it!

Check out the preliminary agenda below: 

• Welcome/Introduction – DAOS Foundation Board
• DAOS Foundation Update – Kevin Harms, Foundation Chair
• ORNL Update – Mike Brim,  ORNL
• Enakta Update – Denis Nuja, Enakta
• Bumps and Bliss in Cloud – Jeff Olivier and Dean Hildebrand, Google
• 2.8 and Beyond – Johann Lombardi, TSC Chair
• PyTorch on Aurora – Kaushik Velusamy, Argonne
• Enabling DAOS Usage on User and Application Level: A Real World HPC Center Story – Steffen Christgau, Zuse-Institut Berlin (ZIB)
• DAOS Client Progress & Plans – Mohamad Chaarawi, HPE
• VDURA Update – Samantha Clark, VDURA
• Argonne Update – Kevin Harms, Argonne
• HPE Update – Andrey Kudryavtsev, HPE
• Performance Update – Michael Hennecke, HPE
• Let DrAgOnS Train Your LLM – Pete Mendygral, HPE
• Scaling DAOS Performance for AI/ML Work Loads – Denis Barakhtanov, Enakta