Storage Systems and Input/Output (SSIO) Workshop

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
September 19 – 20, 2018

Agenda

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Wednesday September 19, 2018

7:00am – 8:15am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
 
8:15am – 8:35am
Welcome

Opening remarks:
Reminder of charge, overview of meeting (7.84 MB)
Barbara Helland, US Department of Energy
Lucy Nowell, US Department of Energy
8:35am – 8:50am
Talk: Experimental and Observational Data (7.15 MB)
Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
8:50am – 9:05am
Talk: Streaming Data (1.85 MB)
Graham Heyes, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
9:05am – 9:20am
Talk: Workflow Management (7.91 MB)
Tom Peterka, Argonne National Laboratory
9:20am – 10:00am
Talk: Science requirements for SSIO at the LCFs (6.74 MB)
Talk: Drivers for Storage at ALCF (1.77 MB)
Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kevin Harms, Argonne National Laboratory
10:00am – 10:30am
Break
 
10:30am – 11:45am
Panel: Applications and Facilities Requirements (Application Pull)

Participants: Wes Bethel, Graham Heyes, Jack Wells, Kevin Harms, Evan Felix, Tom Peterka, Kristy Kallback-Rose
Moderator: Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:45am –12:35pm
Lunch
 
12:35pm – 2:05pm
Working Session 1:
Integrating with Science Workflows
Moderator: Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scribe: Brad Settlemyer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2:05pm – 2:35pm
Break
 
2:35pm – 4:05pm
Working Session 2: Understanding SSIO Systems
Moderator: Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory

Scribe: Galen Shipman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
4:05pm – 4:25pm
Break
 
4:25pm – 5:55pm
Working Session 3: Streaming data
Moderator: Matt Wolf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scribe: Glenn Lockwood, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Thursday, September 20, 2018

7:00am – 8:15am
Continental Breakfast
 
8:15am – 8:30am
Talk: Extreme Heterogeneity Workshop Report (789 KB)
Lucy Nowell, US Department of Energy
8:30am – 8:50am
Talk: Storage Technologies (1.29 MB)
Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory
8:50am – 9:10am
Talk: Memory Technologies; Blurring the Lines (1.68 MB)
Dan Ernst, Cray, Inc
9:10am – 10:15am
Panel: Storage Technologies (Tech Push Panel)

Participants: Gary Grider, Kevin Harms, Eric Pouyoul, Dan Ernst, Lance Evans
Moderator: Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories
10:15am – 10:45am
Break
 
10:45am – 12:15pm
Working Session 4: Heterogeneous/multi-tier storage systems
Moderator: Kathryn Mohror Scribe: Kevin Harms
Moderator: Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Scribe: Kevin Harms, Argonne National Laboratory
12:15pm – 1:15pm
Lunch
 
1:15pm – 1:30pm
Talk: ISDM Workshop (436 KB)
Tom Peterka, Argonne National Laboratory
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Working Session 5: Metadata, Name Spaces, and Provenance
Moderator: Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories

Scribe: Quincey Koziol, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
3:00pm – 3:25pm
Break
 
3:25pm – 4:55pm
Working Session 6: HW/SW architectures
Moderator: Brad Settlemyer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scribe: Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory
4:55pm – 5:00pm
Closing remarks and adjourn
 
5:00pm – 5:30pm
Writing team meet to discuss homework
 

Friday September 21, 2018

7:00am – 8:00am
Continental Breakfast
 
8:00am - 12:00pm
Writing
Organizers and Section Leads