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Virtual DUG’26
May 21 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT
The 2026 virtual DUG (DAOS User Group) took place on May 21, 2026. The DAOS User Group is targeted towards storage customers and partners who are a part of the DAOS community or follow DAOS development. Check out the recordings and slides below:
Agenda
- Welcome/Introduction – Kevin Harms, DAOS Governing Board Chair [video | slides]
- DAOS Foundation Update – DAOS Governing Board Members [video | slides]
- DAOS v2.8 Features Discussion/Demo – Kenneth Cain, Tom Nabarro, and Wei Li, HPE [video | slides]
- DAOS Benchmarks and Findings – Xinxin (Cissie) Mei, Jefferson Lab & Rebecca George, William & Mary [video | slides]
- Fabrics Performance and Support – Michael Hennecke, HPE [video | slides]
- TSC Update/Roadmap – Johann Lombardi, TSC Chair [video | slides]
- Pytorch on Aurora – Kaushik Velusamy and Kevin Harms, Argonne National Laboratory [video | slides]
- MD on SSD: the Practical Part – Michael Hennecke & Johann Lombardi, HPE [video | slides]
- Converged DAOS on HGX B200/B300: AI-Assisted Engineering of a High-Performance Storage Tier for ML – Alex Timofeyev, LinkedIn [video | slides]
- Argonne Update – Kevin Harms, Argonne National Laboratory [video | slides]
- HPE K3000 Storage Platform Update – Andrey Kudryavtsev, HPE [video | slides]