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Challenges and Opportunities of HPC Storage Systems (CHAOSS)
The first workshop on “Challenges and Opportunities of HPC Storage Systems” (CHAOSS) is aimed at researchers, developers of scientific applications, engineers and everyone interested in the evolution of HPC storage systems. As the developments of computing power, storage and network technologies continue to diverge, the performance gap between them widens. This trend, combined with the growing data volumes, results in I/O and storage bottlenecks that become increasingly serious especially for large-scale HPC storage systems. The hierarchy of different storage technologies to ease this situation leads to a complex environment which will become even more challenging for future exascale systems.
The main objective of this workshop is to explore the intersection of self-describing data formats and other data organizations with multi-tier memory and storage hierarchies. The goal is to find the right balance for different workloads. This workshop is a venue for papers exploring topics related to data organization and management along with the impacts of multi-tier memory and storage for optimizing application throughput. We encourage submissions of early stages of research.
The workshop will take place at the Euro-Par 2020 conference in Warsaw, Poland. It is organized in conjunction with the CoSEMoS project.
Important Dates
Paper Submission | May 8, 2020 |
Notification to Authors | June 30, 2020 |
Registration | July 10, 2020 |
Camera-Ready Deadline (for Informal Proceedings) | July 10, 2020 |
Workshop Dates | August 24 or 25, 2020 |
Camera-Ready Deadline | September 11, 2020 |
Submission Guidelines
Only original and novel work not currently under review in other venues will be considered for publication. The papers should not exceed 12 pages (including title, text, figures, appendices and references). Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but will not be published in the proceedings. They must be submitted electronically as PDF files formatted according to Springer's LNCS guidelines. All submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. One author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and present the paper.
Submissions will be submitted and managed via EasyChair. The submission link will be added here once available.
If there are any questions regarding submission or other aspects of the workshop, please feel free to contact the organizers.
Topics of Interest
Submissions may be more hands-on than research papers and we therefore explicitly encourage submissions in the early stages of research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Kernel and user space file/storage systems
- Parallel and distributed file/storage systems
- Data management approaches for heterogeneous storage systems (such as SCM and NVRAM combined with HDDs)
- Management of self-describing data formats
- Metadata management
- Approaches using query and database interfaces
- Hybrid solutions using file systems and databases
- Optimized indexing techniques
- Data organizations to support online workflows
- Domain-specific data management solutions
- Related experiences from users: what worked, what didn't?
Agenda
The preliminary structure of the workshop is as follows. Please note that the agenda is not final and may be changed closer to the workshop.
09:00 | Opening and Welcome |
09:15 | Keynote 1 (Invited Speaker) |
10:00 | Paper Presentation 1 |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | Paper Presentation 2 |
11:30 | Paper Presentation 3 |
12:00 | Panel Discussion |
12:30 | Lunch |
14:00 | Keynote 2 (Invited Speaker/Organizer) |
14:45 | Paper Presentation 4 |
15:15 | Open Discussion |
15:30 | Coffee Break |
16:00 | Paper Presentation 5 |
16:30 | Paper Presentation 6 |
17:00 | Conclusion and Discussion |
The timeslots are 45 minutes for keynotes and 30 minutes for paper presentations both including the discussion. The timeslot for the panel discussion is 30 minutes.
Organization
The workshop is organized by:
- Michael Kuhn, Universität Hamburg (michael.kuhn@informatik.uni-hamburg.de)
- Kira Duwe, Universität Hamburg (kira.duwe@informatik.uni-hamburg.de)
- Margaret Lawson, University of Illinos, Urbana-Champaign and Sandia National Laboratories (mlawso@sandia.gov, mlawson4@illinois.edu)
- Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories (gflofst@sandia.gov)
- Johann Lombardi, Intel Corporation (johann.lombardi@intel.com)
Program Committee
- Gabriel Antoniu - National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA)
- Konstantinos Chasapis - DDN
- Andreas Dilger - DDN
- Kira Duwe - University of Hamburg (UHH)
- Wolfgang Frings - Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
- Elsa Gonsiororowski - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- Anthony Kougkas - Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
- Michael Kuhn - University of Hamburg (UHH)
- Margaret Lawson - University of Illinos (UIUC), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
- Jay Lofstead - Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
- Johann Lombardi - Intel
- Jakob Lüttgau - German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ)
- Anna Queralt - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
- Yue Zhu - Florida State University (FSU)