====== SIG-IO-UK September ======

This workshop is the second meeting of the 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.

This workshop is composed of two parts:
A) presentations: Participants present relevant RD&E in this field and discuss opportunities to bring forward the research in the UK to stimulate the later discussion. Talks 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.
B) preparation of a whitepaper about future perspective for interfaces, this is composed of:
1) collection of requirements/challenges for future workflows.
Example workflows for climate/weather will be given to stimulate the discussion.
2) design and architectural sketches how could we meet the requirements.

|| Date || Tuesday September 11th, 2018 ||
|| Venue || AI lab, room 185, 1st floor, Polly Vacher, CS department, Reading University, [[:about:visits|Travel information]] || 
|| Contact || [[about:people:julian kunkel]] ||

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//
  * 10:10 **Understanding Workflow I/O Performance Using Holistic I/O Monitoring** \\ //Jakob Lüttgau//
  * 10:45 **CoSS: Towards a Contract-based Storage System** \\ //Matthieu Dorier//
  * 11:25 **Machine Learning for Smarter Earth System Modelling Workflows** \\ //Samantha Adams//
 
  * //12:00 lunch, sponsored by the department of computer science//

  * 12:30 **Discussion of future workflows**

  * //14:30 Coffee break// 
  * 15:00 **Discussion of interfaces**

  * //17:00 Adjourn//


===== Participants =====

  * Adrian Jackson (EPCC)
  * Tiago Quintino (ECMWF)
  * Adam Voysey (Met Office)
  * Rosemary Francis (Ellexus)
  * Samantha Adams (Met Office)
  * Neil Massey (STFC)
  * Steve Perkins (Panasas)
  * Matthieu Dorier (Argonne National Laboratory)
  * Frederik Ferner (Diamond Light Source)
  * Dave Bond
  * Julian Kunkel (University of Reading)
  * Jakob Lüttgau (DKRZ)

===== 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]].