UK Scientific Ceph Face-to-Face

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

2.45 (Manchester University, Williamson Building)

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

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 → 14:10 Introduction and Welcome

Speaker: Robert Appleyard (STFC)

14:00 → 17:00 UK Scientific Ceph F2F

Convener: Robert Appleyard (STFC)

14:10 → 14:30 10 years and 100PB of Ceph - What could possibly go wrong?

Speaker: Robert Appleyard (STFC)

14:30 → 14:50 Cephalocon 2025 Report

Speaker: Thomas Byrne (STFC)

14:50 → 15:20 Open Discussion - What are Ceph's biggest pain points?

15:20 → 15:40 Tea, Coffee and Biscuits

16:40 → 17:00 Conclusion and Next Steps - Building a UK Scientific Ceph Community

This will also include directions to the pub for further discussion

Speaker: Robert Appleyard (STFC)