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2nd Workshop on High-Performance Storage
HPS 2021
Held in conjunction with IPDPS 2021.
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https://sites.google.com/view/hps-2021/home
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Created in 2020, HPS is a newly established workshop that covers all aspects of High-Performance I/O and storage, including storage hardware, storage systems, libraries, and I/O intensive applications.
The recent years are seeing an accelerated evolution of high-end storage systems, libraries, and services, due to several reasons:
Technology: The availability of an increasing number of persistent solid-state storage technologies that can replace either memory or disk is creating new opportunities for the structure of storage systems.
Performance Requirements: Disk-based parallel file systems cannot satisfy the performance needs of high-end systems. It is not clear how solid-state storage is best used to alleviate the problem.
Infrastructure evolution: HPC technology will not only be deployed in dedicated supercomputing centers in the future. “Embedded HPC”, “HPC in the box”, “HPC in the loop”, “HPC in the cloud”, “HPC as a service”, “near- to-real-time simulation” are concepts requiring new small-scale deployment environments for HPC. A federation of systems and functions with consistent mechanisms for managing I/O, storage and data processing across all participating systems will be required to create a “continuum” of computing.
Application Evolution: Data analysis, including graph analytics and machine learning training, are becoming increasingly important high-end applications. I/O is often a major bottleneck for such applications, both in a cloud environment and in an HPC environment – especially when fast turnaround or integration of heavy computation with heavy analysis are required. This is becoming more and more frequent in the context of the current emergence of the computing continuum described above, in support of hybrid workflows combining simulation and analytics.
Virtualization and disaggregation: As virtualization and disaggregation become broadly used in cloud and HPC computing, the issues of virtualized storage and storage disaggregation have increasing importance.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and developers working on high-end storage systems, libraries and applications in HPC and clusters, and users of such systems that are interested in these issues.
HPS 2021 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to:
• High-end storage systems
• Parallel and distributed high-end storage architecturesorganizations
• The synergy between different storage models (POSIX file system, object storage, key-value, row-oriented, and column-oriented databases)
• Storage and data processing architectures and systems for hybrid HPC/cloud/edge infrastructures, in support of complex workflows potentially combining simulation and analytics
• Structures and interfaces for leveraging persistent solid-state storage
• High-performanceing I/O libraries and services
• I/O performance in high-end systems and applications
• Data reduction and compression
• Benchmarks and performance tools for high-end I/O
• Language and library support for data-centric computing
• Storage virtualization and disaggregation
• Active processing in storage technologies.
• Ephemeral storage media and consistency optimizations
• Storage architectures and systems for scalable stream-based processing
• Study cases of I/O services in support of various application domains (bioinformatics, scientific simulations, large observatories, experimental facilities, etc.)
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
The workshop will accept traditional research papers (8-10 pages) for in-depth topics and short papers (4-8 pages) for work in progress on hot topics. Papers should present original research and provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community.
Paper format: single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Submission site: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=HPSWorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2021
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission (optional) deadline: January 25th, 2021
Paper submission deadline: February 21st, 2021 (Extended, Hard Deadline)
Acceptance notification: March 7th, 2021
Camera-ready deadline: March 20th, 2021
Workshop date: May 21st, 2021
ORGANIZATION
Workshop Chairs:
Gabriel Antoniu, Inria, France - Chair - gabriel.antoniu@inria.fr
Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Co-Chair- snir@illinois.edu
Program Co-Chairs:
Bogdan Nicolae, Argonne National Lab, USA - Chair - bogdan.nicolae@acm.org
Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan, Co-Chair - tatebe@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp
Program Committee:
Angelos Bilas, Forth, Greece
Suren Byna, LLBL, USA
Franck Cappello, ANL, USA
Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Alexandru Costan, Inria and INSA Rennes, France
Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Lab, USA
Dana Petcu, University West Timisoara, Romania
Michael Schoettner, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Kento Sato, RIKEN, Japan
François Tessier, Inria, France
Weikuan Yu, Florida State University, USA
For additional details, see web site: https://sites.google.com/view/hps-2021/home