BOOTH #4811
Booth Presentation Schedule
Please join us for presentations with NetApp experts and partners.
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17TH
10:00 AM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
10:30 AM
Advancements in Lustre with TLC and NetApp
Peter Jones | The Lustre Collective
Cory Spitz | NetApp
Come learn about NetApp's newest portfolio offering - NetApp AFX - which provides a disaggregated approach to NetApp ONTAP for greater scale, performance, and capacity density. This new platform delivers all of the feature richness of ONTAP while bringing new possibilities for HPC and other high-performance workloads.
11:00 AM
Same sbatch, new system of record
Matt Bonyak | Domino
HPC runs the biggest jobs but often keeps the fewest records. A simulation runs for three days, its output lands in results-final-v2, and six months later nobody can trace the inputs, code, or environment behind the reported results. As AI workloads move onto the same clusters, that gap becomes more costly.
In this session, we'll show how Domino adds a system of record to Slurm without changing existing workflows. With real Slurm managed by Slinky, scripts still run through sbatch, squeue, and sacct. Domino Workspaces serve as login nodes, where coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor can write and submit jobs, with prompts routed through the LLM Gateway and logged alongside each job. Domino captures requested and actual resources, environment and code revisions, file versions, and NetApp data snapshots at execution time.
We'll demonstrate an unchanged Slurm script, workers autoscaling across x86 or ARM tiers and back to zero, and one-click reproduction of a months-old run—including its original environment and data.
11:30 AM
Empowering the AI Era with Scalable Infrastructure
Jesse Lin | Supermicro
As enterprises race to build dedicated AI factories, compute density and data pipelines must scale in balance to avoid bottlenecks. This session explores the strategic partnership between Supermicro and NetApp, highlighting co-engineered reference architectures and high-throughput data platforms designed to accelerate AI training, inference, and agentic workloads. Discover how pre-validated infrastructure helps organizations overcome power, cooling, and data challenges to bring AI solutions online faster.
12:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
12:30 PM
Query Everything, Move Nothing: AI-Ready Data with Starburst & NetApp
Kyle Payne | Starburst
Storage and infrastructure teams want their data AI-ready without building new pipelines or new copies. Starburst and NetApp already let you query structured data in databases, and structured and semi-structured data in data lakehouses, all in place on NetApp storage. NetApp's AI Data Engine (AIDE) extends that same approach to unstructured content, starting with metadata today and moving toward full semantic search. Join Starburst's Kyle Payne to see what an AI-ready data estate looks like, and how to get there without moving a single file.
1:00 PM
NVIDIA AI Reference Architectures: Designing AI factories for performance, predictability and scale
John Fragalla | NVIDIA
Sateesh Iyer | NVIDIA
David Arnette | NetApp
AI factories require a full stack infrastructure approach where compute, storage and networking are designed together to ensure predictability and performance for maximum GPU utilization. This session will explain how NetApp is working with NVIDIA and our compute and networking partners to simplify Enterprise AI deployments with validated AI Reference Architectures. Whether you are looking to do agentic AI, inferencing workloads or training and fine-tuning, an AI Reference Architecture can help you get the most out of your investment today and plan for growth in the future.
1:30 PM
NetApp Novus: Enterprise Scale-Out pNFS Metadata for Gigawatt scale AI
Steven Pruchniewski | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
2:00 PM
Lenovo AI Factory Solutions
Hapsara Sukasdadi | Lenovo
Explore why successful AI deployments depend as much on data architecture as compute architecture. Learn how organizations are modernizing storage, governance, and data movement strategies to support the next generation of AI workloads.
2:30 PM
The statistical computing environment meets the cluster
Matt Bonyak | Domino
Pharma R&D has HPC too, under other names. Trial simulations and sensitivity analyses with thousands of replicates run on a Slurm cluster next door to a GxP statistical computing environment, with scp as the integration between them. When a regulator asks which replicates produced the number in the submission, someone goes looking.
This session shows an R simulation study parallelized with future and mirai, fanned out to Slurm workers from the same place the statistician writes the analysis. The code is the same as what ran on a laptop; only the backend changes. Every replicate is tracked as a job, the results land in versioned shared storage with a NetApp snapshot taken at the point of analysis, and the software environment and code revision are captured with them. Compute spins up for the study and releases when it ends. When the regulator asks which replicates produced the number, you look it up.
3:00 PM
Feed the GPUs
Minith Patel | NetApp
When storage can’t keep up, expensive accelerators sit idle, and AI and HPC jobs now share the same clusters and the same bottlenecks. This session explains why metadata and data contention limits GPU utilization, and walks through a sample architecture that splits the two planes using standard NFS/pNFS clients. We’ll compare NetApp EF-Series, AFX and the new Novus architecture so you can match the right engine to your tier, from parallel file system scratch to AI-factory scale. Bring your GPU count and target feed rate for a live sizing conversation.
3:30 PM
NetApp AutoEdge Intelligence: AI on the Edge
Garrett Raymond | NetApp
Jan Beyen | NetApp
NetApp AutoEdge brings localized computing to where you need it. By putting Localized AI determination in close to proximity to your source you can reduce bandwidth constraints, increase accuracy, and allow autonomous decisioning. Leveraging NetApp ONTAP you are able to bring security and fleet wide management enmass remotely. Learn how NetApp's data fabric, and reference design can bring intelligence where you need it most.
4:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
4:30 PM
Data, Context, Intelligence: Fueling Agentic AI with NVIDIA and NetApp
Emily Chen | NVIDIA
As agentic AI reasons across more data and longer context, every token depends on efficient access to both enterprise knowledge and working memory. Explore how NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NetApp provide the compute and data foundation for these workloads. See how NVIDIA STX extends this story by addressing growing demands on accelerated storage and context memory. Discover how compute, data, and context work together to improve token throughput and AI factory efficiency.
5:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
5:30 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!