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SUMMARY:Virtual DUG'26
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual DUG (DAOS User Group) on May 21\, 2026! This virtual event will take place 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. Have a topic in mind? Submit interested content or ask for a speaking opportunity here.  \nRegister to attend here \nPreliminary Agenda \n\nWelcome/Introduction – Kevin Harms\, DAOS Governing Board Chair\nDAOS Foundation Update – DAOS Governing Board Members\nDAOS v2.8 Features Discussion/Demo – Kenneth Cain\, Tom Nabarro\, and Wei Li\, HPE\nDAOS Benchmarks and Findings – Xinxin (Cissie) Mei\, Jefferson Lab & Rebecca George\, William & Mary\nFabrics Performance and Support – Michael Hennecke\, HPE\nTSC Update/Roadmap – Johann Lombardi\, TSC Chair\nPytorch on Aurora – Kaushik Velusamy\, Argonne National Laboratory\nMD on SSD: the Practical Part – Michael Hennecke & Johann Lombardi\, HPE\nConverged DAOS on HGX B200/B300: AI-Assisted Engineering of a High-Performance Storage Tier for ML – Alex Timofeyev\, LinkedIn\nArgonne Update – Kevin Harms\, Argonne National Laboratory\nHPE K3000 Storage Platform Update – Andrey Kudryavtsev\, HPE\nQ&A
URL:https://daos.io/event/virtual-dug26
CATEGORIES:DUG,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251116T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20250421T192546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T222319Z
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SUMMARY:9th DAOS User Group (DUG) at SC'25
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nYou can view the recordings from the event here\, and view slides for each presentation below. \nAgenda:  \n\n9:00 – 9:05 Welcome/Introduction – DAOS Foundation Board\n9:05 – 9:15  DAOS Foundation Update – Kevin Harms\, Foundation Chair\n– View Slides\n9:15 – 9:30  ORNL Update – Mike Brim\,  ORNL – View Slides\n9:30 – 9:45  Enakta Update – Denis Nuja\, Enakta\n9:45 – 10:05  Bumps and Bliss in Cloud – Jeff Olivier and Dean Hildebrand\, Google\n10:05 – 10:25  DAOS 2.8 and Beyond – Johann Lombardi\, TSC Chair – View Slides\n10:25 – 10:40  BREAK\n10:40 – 10:55  PyTorch +DAOS on Aurora – Kaushik Velusamy\, Argonne – View Slides\n10:55 – 11:10  Enabling DAOS Usage on User and Application Level: A Real World HPC Center Story – Steffen Christgau\, Zuse-Institut Berlin (ZIB) – View Slides\n11:10 – 11:25  DAOS at VDURA – Samantha Clarke\, VDURA – View Slides\n11:25 – 11:40  ALCF Update – Kevin Harms\, Argonne – View Slides\n11:40 – 11:55  The Future of Supercomputing Storage – Andrey Kudryavtsev\, HPE – View Slides\n11:55 – 12:10  DAOS Performance Update – Michael Hennecke\, HPE – View Slides\n12:10 – 12:25  Let DrAgOnS Train Your LLM – Pete Mendygral\, HPE – View Slides\n12:25 – 12:40. Building the Access Layer for DAOS – Denis Barakhtanov\, Enakta – View Slides\n12:40 – 12:55  DAOS Client: Progress & Plans – Mohamad Chaarawi\, HPE – View Slides\n12:55 – 13:00  DAOS Community Feedback and Opportunities\, Q&A
URL:https://daos.io/event/9th-daos-user-group-dug-at-sc25
LOCATION:America’s Center Convention Comple St Louis\, 701 Convention Plaza\, St. Louis\, 63101\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG,In Person Event
ORGANIZER;CN="DAOS Foundation":MAILTO:info@daos.io
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T140000
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20250205T215830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250623T140357Z
UID:559-1747908000-1747922400@daos.io
SUMMARY:Virtual DUG '25
DESCRIPTION: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): \n  \n\nWelcome/Introduction – Kevin Harms\, DAOS Governing Board Chair (slides)\nDAOS Foundation Update – DAOS Governing Board Members (slides)\nUsing Model-Driven Development Technology to Enable Service Capabilities for Open Source Project – Zhen Zeng (video)\nDAOS QLC Support – Jun Zeng\, Intel (video | slides)\nEnakta Update – Denis Nuja\, Enakta (video)\nGoogle’s Journey to Adopt DAOS – Jeff Olivier\, Google (video | slides)\nTSC Update/Roadmap – Johann Lombardi\, TSC Chair (slides)\nPytorch Performance – Michael Macdonald\, Google (video | slides)\nDAOS Best Practices and Performance Tuning – Mohamad Chaarawi\, HPE (video)\nEvaluating DAOS as AI-Optimized Storage – Mike Brim\, ORNL (video | slides)\nCI Overview – Sylvia Chan\, HPE (video | slides)\nArgonne Update – Kevin Harms\, Argonne (video)\nThe future of supercomputing storage – Andrey Kudryavtsev\, HPE (video | slides)\nCommunity Opportunities – Kevin Harms\, DAOS Governing Board Chair & Johann Lombardi\, TSC Chair (slides)\nQ&A
URL:https://daos.io/event/virtual-dug-25
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241118T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241118T120000
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CREATED:20241114T214010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T181149Z
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SUMMARY:DAOS User Group at SC'24 (DUG'24)
DESCRIPTION:The DAOS Foundation organized the 8th annual DAOS User Group (DUG’24) at the SC24 conference in Atlanta (GA). \n\n\n\nDUG’24 was an in-person event hosted by HPE. It took place on November 18th from 9am to 12pm (EST) in the Omni Atlanta Hotel (GA) at Centennial Park- 190 Marietta St NW\, Atlanta\, Georgia – South Tower – Atrium Level Pine Meeting Room. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe DAOS User Group is an annual event targeted towards storage customers and partners who are a part of the DAOS community or follow DAOS development. The agenda included updates from the DAOS foundation\, various partners presenting their offerings and development activities\, as well as end customers sharing their DAOS experiences.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe agenda (with slides linked) is available below: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime (EST)\nPresentation\nSpeaker\n\n\n9am\nWelcome\nLance Evans – DAOS Governing Board Member\n\n\n9:05am\nDAOS Foundation Update\nKevin Harms – DAOS Governing Board Chair\n\n\n9:20am\nIntel Update\nBrad Hoagland – DAOS Governing Board Member\n\n\n9:35am\nTSC Update\nJohann Lombardi – DAOS TSC Chair\n\n\n9:50am\nGoogle Technical Update\ncorwin\, Google\n\n\n10:05am\nPyTorch Update\nDenis Barkhtanov\, Enakta\n\n\n10:20am\nHPE Update\nLance Evans\, HPE\n\n\n10:35am\nBreak\n \n\n\n10:50am\nPerformance Impacts of Replication and Sharding\nAdrian Jackson\, EPCC Nicolau Manubens\, ECMWF\n\n\n11:05am\nEnakta Update\nDenis Nuja\, Enakta\n\n\n11:20am\nMD-on-SSD Update\nLiang Zhen\, Intel\n\n\n11:35am\nArgonne Site Update\nKevin Harms\, Argonne National Laboratory\n\n\n11:40am\nDAOS Data Protection and Fault Recovery – Lessons from the Field\nMichael Hennecke\, Intel\n\n\n11:45am\nVDURA Update\nChris Girard\, VDURA\n\n\n11:50am\nQ&A / Discussion\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://daos.io/event/daos-user-group-at-sc24-dug24
LOCATION:Omni Hotel Atlanta – Pine Meeting Room\, 190 Marietta St NW\, Atlanta\, Georgia - South Tower - Atrium Level\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG,In Person Event
ORGANIZER;CN="DAOS Foundation":MAILTO:info@daos.io
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231113T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231113T235959
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20241122T231422Z
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UID:494-1699833600-1699919999@daos.io
SUMMARY:DUG'23
DESCRIPTION:The Intel DAOS team will be hosting the 7th annual DAOS User Group (DUG’23) during the SC23 conference in Denver (CO). \nDUG’23 will be an in-person event. It will take place on November 13th at the Hyatt Regency Denver Hotel\, which is across the street from the Colorado Convention Center. The DAOS User Group is targeted towards storage customers and partners who are a part of the DAOS community or follow DAOS development. The agenda includes updates from the Intel development team\, various partners presenting their offerings and development activities\, as well as end customers sharing their DAOS experiences. \nNo registration is required. | Learn More
URL:https://daos.io/event/dug23
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221114T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221114T235959
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20241122T231533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T231533Z
UID:496-1668384000-1668470399@daos.io
SUMMARY:DUG'22
DESCRIPTION:The Intel DAOS team invites you to join us for the 6th annual DAOS User Group (DUG22) during SC22. \nThis will be the first in-person user group since the pandemic. The event will take place on November 14th at the Fairmont Hotel\, which is within one mile from the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. The event targeted towards storage customers and partners who are a part of DAOS community or follow DAOS development. The agenda includes updates from the Intel development team\, various partners presenting their offerings and end customers sharing their DAOS experiences.  | Learn More
URL:https://daos.io/event/dug22
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211119T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211119T235959
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20241122T231700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T231700Z
UID:498-1637280000-1637366399@daos.io
SUMMARY:DUG'21
DESCRIPTION:The 5th annual DAOS User Group meeting was held around SC21.\nDue to the pandemic situation\, the DUG was virtual this year with live presentations. View the agenda and recordings of presentations here. 
URL:https://daos.io/event/dug21
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201119T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201119T235959
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20241122T231805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T231805Z
UID:501-1605744000-1605830399@daos.io
SUMMARY:DUG'20
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the 4th annual DAOS User Group meeting to be held around SC20 on November 19\, 2020.\nDue to the pandemic situation\, the DUG will be virtual this year with live presentations. | Learn More
URL:https://daos.io/event/dug20
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191120T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191120T235959
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20241122T231926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T231926Z
UID:503-1574208000-1574294399@daos.io
SUMMARY:DUG'19
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the 3rd annual DAOS User Group meeting to be held at SC19 on Wednesday\, November 20\, 2019 from 3pm Mountain Time to 5pm.  This will be held at the Grand Hyatt Denver located at 1750 Welton Street\, Denver. | Learn More
URL:https://daos.io/event/dug19
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181114T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181114T235959
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20241122T232028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T232028Z
UID:505-1542153600-1542239999@daos.io
SUMMARY:DUG'18
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the 2nd annual DAOS User Group meeting to be held at SC18 on Wednesday\, November 14\, 2018 from 4pm CST – 5:30pm.  This will be held at One Intel Station (OIS) in the Station Master’s Lounge\, located in Union Station Dallas\, 400 South Houston Street. | Learn More
URL:https://daos.io/event/dug18
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171114T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T120029
CREATED:20241122T232156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T232156Z
UID:507-1510646400-1510678800@daos.io
SUMMARY:DUG'17
DESCRIPTION:The first DAOS User Group (DUG) meeting took place November 14\, 2017 at SC’17. | Learn More
URL:https://daos.io/event/dug17
CATEGORIES:All Events,DUG
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