DAOS

9th DAOS User Group (DUG) at SC'25
2025-11-16 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | America’s Center Convention Comple St Louis, 701 Convention Plaza, St. Louis, 63101, United States
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
– View Slides
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

IXPUG Workshop at HPC Asia 2026
2026-01-26 13:30 - 16:30 (Asia/Tokyo)
Michael Hennecke (HPE) will be presenting at the IXPUG Workshop at HPC Asia 2026, taking place January 26. View full details here

Virtual DUG'26
2026-05-21 10:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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.
Register to attend here
Check out last year’s event, and stay tuned for the preliminary agenda!
