Agenda

The workshop will be held fully virtual on Tuesday, September 7, 2021.

All Times are in PDT

  • 6AM - 7AM - Keynote: Trends, Challenges, and Potential Solutions in Scalable Storage and I/O [Slides]

      • Speaker: Suren Byna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA.


  • 7AM - 8:30AM - Session I: I/O Optimization Techniques

  • Paper 1: A Scalability Study of Data Exchange in HPC Multi-component Workflows, Jie Yin, Atsushi Hori, Balazs Gerofi, Yutaka Ishikawa. National Institute of Informatics, Japan and RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan. [Slides]

  • Paper 2: The Case for Storage Optimization Decoupling in Deep Learning Frameworks, Ricardo Macedo, Cláudia Correia, Marco Dantas, Cláudia Brito, Weijia Xu, Yusuke Tanimura, Jason Haga and João Paulo. INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. [Slides]

  • Paper 3: MONARCH: Hierarchical Storage Management for Deep Learning Frameworks, Marco Dantas, Diogo Leitão, Cláudia Correia, Ricardo Macedo, Weijia Xu and João Paulo. INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal and Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA. [Slides]


  • 8:30AM - 9AM - Break


  • 9AM - 11AM - Session II: I/O Libraries and Evaluation Methodologies

  • Expert Talk 1: How to leverage multi-tiered storage to accelerate I/O, Anthony Kougkas, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. [Slides]

  • Paper 4: pMEMCPY: a simple, lightweight, and portable I/O library for storing data in persistent memory, Luke Logan, Jay Lofstead, Scott Levy, Patrick Widener, Anthony Kougkas and Xian-He Sun. Illinois Institute of Technology, USA and Sandia National Laboratories, USA. [Slides]

  • Expert Talk 2: Advanced data-driven frameworks to develop reproducible data science applications at scale, Rosa Filgueira, Heriot-Watt University, UK. [Slides]

  • Paper 5: Parallel I/O Evaluation Techniques and Emerging HPC Workloads: A Perspective, Sarah Neuwirth and Arnab K. Paul. Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. [Slides]


  • 11AM - 11:30AM - Expert Panel: Emerging HPC Workloads and the Future Direction of Parallel I/O Research

      • Panelists: Suren Byna, Anthony Kougkas, Rosa Filgueira, Ricardo Macedo

      • Moderators: Arnab K. Paul, Sarah Neuwirth