The DAOS Foundation hosted a virtual DAOS User Group on May 22, 2025, from 7am – 11am PT/10am – 2pm ET. The DAOS User Group is targeted towards storage customers and partners who are a part of the DAOS community or follow DAOS development. View the slide decks and recordings below (full event recording here):

• Welcome/Introduction – Kevin Harms, DAOS Governing Board Chair (slides)
• DAOS Foundation Update – DAOS Governing Board Members (slides)
• Using Model-Driven Development Technology to Enable Service Capabilities for Open Source Project – Zhen Zeng (video)
• DAOS QLC Support – Jun Zeng, Intel (video | slides)
• Enakta Update – Denis Nuja, Enakta (video)
• Google’s Journey to Adopt DAOS – Jeff Olivier, Google (video | slides)
• TSC Update/Roadmap – Johann Lombardi, TSC Chair (slides)
• Pytorch Performance – Michael Macdonald, Google (video | slides)
• DAOS Best Practices and Performance Tuning – Mohamad Chaarawi, HPE (video)
• Evaluating DAOS as AI-Optimized Storage – Mike Brim, ORNL (video | slides)
• CI Overview – Sylvia Chan, HPE (video | slides)
• Argonne Update – Kevin Harms, Argonne (video)
• The future of supercomputing storage – Andrey Kudryavtsev, HPE (video | slides)
• Community Opportunities – Kevin Harms, DAOS Governing Board Chair & Johann Lombardi, TSC Chair (slides)
• Q&A