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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=694 style='width:520.35pt'><tr><td width=694 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:520.35pt;background:white;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.opensfs.org/events/lug14/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=407 height=117 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CF41CE.2DD73260"></span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>LUG 2014: Last Chance for the Early Bird Discount<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Early Bird Registration Ends Today </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width=512 valign=top style='width:384.0pt;background:white;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Today is the last day to take advantage of the early bird discount for <a href="http://www.opensfs.org/lug14/">the 12th Annual Lustre® User Group (LUG) Conference</a>.<span style='color:black'> </span>Be sure to register by <b>11:59 P.M. PT tonight, March 17<sup>th</sup></b>, to receive a <b>$50 discount</b> on registration. <span style='color:black'>After March 17<sup>th</sup>, the LUG registration rate will be $575. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.opensfs.org/lug14/">LUG 2014</a> will be held </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>April 8-10<sup>th</sup> at the </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay<span style='color:black'>, and </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>will feature three days of sessions and panels led by the world’s leading developers, administrators, solution providers, and users of Lustre. Event highlights include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>25+ Lustre Focused Sessions <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The LUG 2014 agenda will feature talks on the Lustre roadmap, Lustre performance comparison and tuning, Exascale, proposed new features, Hadoop, log analysis, and much more. Additionally, this year’s event will include the first Lustre Annual Report that will examine the current status of Lustre in multiple vertical markets spanning high performance computing, Big Data, and enterprise computing markets, including the drivers and barriers for future adoption.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Networking Reception <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in an evening reception on April 8<sup>th</sup> to meet and network with OpenSFS leaders, event speakers, and fellow attendees<b>. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Technical Poster Exhibition <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Technical Poster Exhibition will include posters on Lustre challenges, <i>Data separation on</i> <i>Lustre systems with ZFS</i>, <i>Lustre experience at DLS, Cooperative work with SAMBA on Lustre</i>, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>OpenSFS Working Group Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Attendees are also invited to join the OpenSFS Working Group meetings following LUG on April 10th, regardless of their OpenSFS membership status.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We encourage you to review the <a href="http://www.opensfs.org/lug-2014-agenda/" title="LUG 2014 Agenda">LUG 2014 Agenda</a><span style='color:black'> </span>to learn more about the networking opportunities and sessions at this year’s conference.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://opensfs.wufoo.com/forms/lug-conference-2014/"><b>Register</b></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><b> today</b></span><span style='color:black'> to secure the early bird discount! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact </span><a href="mailto:admin@opensfs.org">admin@opensfs.org</a><span style='color:black'>. <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>OpenSFS LUG Planning Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>_________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>OpenSFS Administration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>3855 SW 153<sup>rd</sup> Drive Beaverton, OR 97006 USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Phone: +1 503-619-0561 | Fax: +1 503-644-6708<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/opensfs"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>@OpenSFS</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Email: </span><a href="mailto:admin@opensfs.org"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>admin@opensfs.org</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> | Website: </span><a href="http://www.opensfs.org"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.opensfs.org</span></a><u><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:mediumblue'> </span></u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=182 valign=top style='width:136.35pt;background:white;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.opensfs.org/lug-2014-sponsorship/"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=149 height=627 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CF41CE.2DD73260" alt="SponsorBanner_March12"></span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.opensfs.org/lug-2014-sponsorship/"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Click here to learn how to become a 2014 LUG Sponsor</span></b></a></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:40.35pt'><td width=694 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:520.35pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:40.35pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:-9.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#767171'>Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. was founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development, ensuring it remains vendor-neutral, open, and free. Since its inception, OpenSFS has been responsible for advancing the Lustre file system and delivering new releases on behalf of the open source community. Through working groups, events, and ongoing funding initiatives, OpenSFS harnesses the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation and growth of the Lustre file system worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>