UK Scientific Ceph Face-to-Face

Name: UK Scientific Ceph Face-to-Face
Start: 2025-12-03T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-03T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Manchester University, Schuster Building

Wednesday 3 Dec 2025, 14:00 → 17:00 Europe/London

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre (Manchester University, Schuster Building)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre

Manchester University, Schuster Building

Manchester University Manchester M13 9PY

Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester), Robert Appleyard (STFC), Thomas Byrne (STFC)

Description

This is a face-to-face workshop for UK-based scientific Ceph users. It's an occasion to discuss our experiences with Ceph storage systems.

Ceph is a mature storage technology, proven at scale, and sufficiently flexible to support extremely diverse use cases.

The goal of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for UK Ceph administrators to share experiences, learn from one another, and establish some connections.

We will have talks from institutes running Ceph, a Cephalocon report from Tom Byrne (RAL's storage architect), and plenty of time for open discussion and a chance to share some war stories.

After the formal element of the meeting is done, we will adjourn to a nearby pub for further discussions.

This meeting will be held in parallel with CIUK's day 0, but is not affliated to or endorsed by the CIUK meeting.

- 14:00 → 17:00
  UK Scientific Ceph F2F
  
  Convener: Robert Appleyard (STFC)
  - 14:00
    
    Introduction and Welcome 10m
    
    Speaker: Robert Appleyard (STFC)
  - 14:10
    
    10 years and 100PB of Ceph - What could possibly go wrong? 20m
    
    Speaker: Robert Appleyard (STFC)
    
    10 years and 100PB of Ceph - What could possibly go wrong.pptx
  - 14:30
    
    Ceph Show and Tell/Lightning Talks 40m
    
    An open session for participants to present their Ceph use cases and discuss their experiences
    
    Speakers: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester), Anthony Holloway (University of Manchester), Gerard Hand
    
    Anthony Holloway.pdf
    
    Ceph at Lancaster University.pdf
    
    Ceph at Lancaster University.pptx
    
    Manchester HEP ceph
  - 15:10
    
    Hardware: What do you Run? 20m
  - 15:30
    
    Tea, Coffee and Biscuits 20m
  - 15:50
    
    Cephalocon 2025 Report 20m
    
    Speaker: Thomas Byrne (STFC)
    
    Cephalocon Roundup.pdf
  - 16:10
    
    Open Discussion - What are Ceph's biggest pain points? 30m
  - 16:40
    
    Conclusion and Next Steps - Building a UK Scientific Ceph Community 20m
    
    This will also include directions to the pub for further discussion
    
    Speaker: Robert Appleyard (STFC)