====== SIG-IO-UK June ======

This workshop is the inaugural meeting in the attempt to forming a special interest group for high-performance I/O in the UK. It brings together: storage vendors, system and middleware developers, and users of data-intensive workloads in order to develop strategies for research, funding but also product development.
It covers all aspects of data access and management including I/O workflow handling, parallel file systems, middleware, data compression, tuning, performance monitoring, novel interfaces, storage technology, data center perspectives.
Participants present relevant RD&E in this field and discuss opportunities to bring forward the research in the UK.
Talks should include challenges faced dealing with I/O and ongoing activities to overcome these challenges.
Vendor talks focus on technical solutions for certain challenges accompanied by use cases demonstrating the benefit.

|| Date || Wed June 6th, 2018 ||
|| Venue || AI lab, room 185, 1st floor, Polly Vacher, CS department, Reading University, [[:about:visits|Travel information]] || 
|| Contact || [[about:people:julian kunkel]] ||

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This workshop is funded by the [[http://reading.ac.uk/computer-science/|department of computer science]] and powered by the [[https://www.vi4io.org|Virtual Institute for I/O]] and  [[http://www.esiwace.eu|ESiWACE]] ((ESiWACE has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 675191)).

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===== Organization =====

The workshop is organized by 
  * [[mailto:j.m.kunkel@reading.ac.uk|Julian Kunkel]] (University of Reading, UK)

===== Agenda =====

  * //09:30 Welcome coffee//
 
  * 10:00 **Welcome** \\ //Julian Kunkel// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-intro.pdf|Slides}}
  * 10:15 **Dealing with I/O performance issues within the UM**  \\ //Adam Voysey//   \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-voysey.pdf|Slides}}
  * 10:45 **I/O challenges for the LFRic Project**  \\ //Samantha Adams// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-adams.pdf|Slides}}
  * 11:15 **Challenges at Diamond**  \\ //Andrew J. Richards// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-richards.pdf|Slides}}

  * //11:45 lunch, sponsored by the department of computer science//

  * 12:30 **Composing HPC Micro-Services to Build Application-Tailored Distributed Object Stores**  \\ //Matthieu Dorier// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-dorier.pdf|Slides}}
  * 13:00 **Exploiting Nonvolatile memory for HPC**  \\ //Adrian Jackson// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-jackson.pdf|Slides}}
  * 13:30 **IME, Lustre and Machine Learning**  \\ //Jean-Thomas Acquaviva// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-acquaviva.pdf|Slides}}
  * 14:00 **Discussion: Limitations of Current Systems; Big Data Workflows in 2020+**

  * //14:30 Coffee break// 

  * 15:00 **Fast, Agile and Cloud ready: taking control of application I/O**  \\ //Rosemary Francis// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-francis.pdf|Slides}}
  * 15:30 **Understanding Burst Buffers with NetCDF-Bench**  \\ //Eugen Betke// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-betke.pdf|Slides}}
  * 16:00 **s3netCDF / SemSL**  \\ //Neil Massey// \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-massey.pdf|Slides}}
  * 16:30 **The Need for Next Generation Semantic Interfaces to Process Climate/Weather Workflows**  \\ //Julian Kunkel//  \\ {{:events:2018:sig-io-uk-kunkel.pdf|Slides}}

  * //17:00 Adjourn//


===== Participants =====


  * Samantha Adams (Met Office)
  * Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN)
  * Eugen Betke (DKRZ)
  * Jeff Cole (NCAS)
  * Matthieu Dorier (Argonne National Laboratory)
  * Paul Fillery (Panasas)
  * Rosemary Francis (Ellexus)
  * Michele Guidolin (Met Office)
  * Adrian Jackson (EPCC)
  * Julian Kunkel (University of Reading)
  * Bryan Lawrence (NCAS, University of Reading)
  * Grenville Lister (NCAS)
  * Neil Massey (STFC)
  * Steve Perkins (Panasas)
  * Andrew Richards (Diamond Light Source)
  * Jean-Christoph Rioual (Met Office)
  * Tiago Quintino (ECMWF)
  * Adam Voysey (Met Office)
  * Simon Wilson (NCAS)
===== Registration =====

Send an email to [[mailto:j.m.kunkel@reading.ac.uk|Julian Kunkel]].

Speakers, please check the [[http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/policy/External-Speaker-Code-of-Conduct.pdf|universities code of conduct]].