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.

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
• 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

• 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)

Send an email to Julian Kunkel.

Speakers, please check the universities code of conduct.