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.

This workshop is funded by the department of computer science and powered by the Virtual Institute for I/O and ESiWACE ¹⁾.

The workshop is organized by

• Julian Kunkel (University of Reading, UK)

• 09:30 Welcome coffee

• 10:00 Welcome
  Julian Kunkel
  Slides
• 10:15 Dealing with I/O performance issues within the UM
  Adam Voysey
  Slides
• 10:45 I/O challenges for the LFRic Project
  Samantha Adams
  Slides
• 11:15 Challenges at Diamond
  Andrew J. Richards
  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
  Slides
• 13:00 Exploiting Nonvolatile memory for HPC
  Adrian Jackson
  Slides
• 13:30 IME, Lustre and Machine Learning
  Jean-Thomas Acquaviva
  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
  Slides
• 15:30 Understanding Burst Buffers with NetCDF-Bench
  Eugen Betke
  Slides
• 16:00 s3netCDF / SemSL
  Neil Massey
  Slides
• 16:30 The Need for Next Generation Semantic Interfaces to Process Climate/Weather Workflows
  Julian Kunkel
  Slides

• 17:00 Adjourn

• 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)

Send an email to Julian Kunkel.

Speakers, please check the universities code of conduct.