Michael Kuhn is a postdoctoral researcher in the Scientific Computing group at Universität Hamburg, where he also received his doctoral degree in computer science in 2015. He conducts research in the area of high performance I/O with a special focus on I/O interfaces and data reduction techniques. Other interests of his include file systems and high performance computing in general. Moreover, he is the lead developer of the JULEA storage framework and a regular contributor to the Spack package manager.

• IPCC for Lustre
• BigStorage
• LSDMA
• SCALUS
• PeCoH
• i_SSS

• 2019, Program Committee at IEEE BigData Congress 2019
• 2018, Program Committee at International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP) 2018
• 2016–2018, Tutorials Committee at SC Conference 2016–2018
• 2018, Technical Program Committee at IEEE BigData Congress 2018
• 2018, Program Committee at Workshop on the Convergence of Extreme Scale Computing and Big Data Analysis (CEBDA) 2018
• 2017, Project Posters Committee at ISC High Performance 2017
• 2017, Technical Program Committee at International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP) 2017
• 2017, Program Committee at Workshop on the Integration of Extreme Scale Computing and Big Data Management and Analytics (EBDMA) 2017
• 2010–2011, Program Committee at International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) 2010 and 2011

• 2016, Organizer at Technical Forum “Performance and Power Optimization” for the LSDMA Spring Event
• 2014–2015, Organizer at Workshop on Cluster Storage Technology (CluStor) 2014 and 2015
• 2010–2011, Local Organizer at International Conference on Energy-Aware High Performance Computing (EnA-HPC) 2010 and 2011

• 2017, Subreviewer at ISC High Performance 2017
• 2016–2017, Reviewer at Computation (MDPI)
• 2016, Subreviewer at SC Conference 2016
• 2016, Reviewer at SpringerPlus (Springer)
• 2016, Reviewer at Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Elsevier)
• 2014, Subreviewer at International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2014
• 2012, Subreviewer at Euro-Par 2012
• 2012, Subreviewer at International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2012
• 2010, Subreviewer at International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2010

• Dynamically Adaptable I/O Semantics for High Performance Computing (Michael Kuhn), PhD Thesis, Advisors: Thomas Ludwig, 2015-04-27, Thesis BibTeX URL
• Simulation-Aided Performance Evaluation of Input/Output Optimizations for Distributed Systems (Michael Kuhn), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Thomas Ludwig, Julian Kunkel, 2009-09-30, Thesis BibTeX URL
• Directory-Based Metadata Optimizations for Small Files in PVFS (Michael Kuhn), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Thomas Ludwig, Julian Kunkel, 2007-09-03, Thesis BibTeX URL

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt mit Seminar „Paralleles Rechnen für Fortgeschrittene“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Praktikum „C-Programmierung“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Effiziente Programmierung“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „Speicher- und Dateisysteme“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungs-Ein-/Ausgabe“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „Effiziente Programmierung“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Wettbewerb „Student Cluster Competition“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Effiziente Programmierung“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt mit Seminar „Paralleles Rechnen für Fortgeschrittene“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „Speicher- und Dateisysteme“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Praktikum „Aufbau eines Clusters“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungs-Ein-/Ausgabe“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt mit Seminar „Paralleles Rechnen für Fortgeschrittene“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „Neueste Trends im Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)
• Wettbewerb „Student Cluster Competition“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Effiziente Programmierung“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt mit Seminar „Paralleles Rechnen für Fortgeschrittene“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungs-Ein-/Ausgabe“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Speicher- und Dateisysteme“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt mit Seminar „Paralleles Rechnen für Fortgeschrittene“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Wettbewerb „Student Cluster Competition“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Neueste Trends im Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)
• Praktikum „Kernel Programming“ (Ansprechpartner: Konstantinos Chasapis)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt mit Seminar „Paralleles Programmieren“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungs-Ein-/Ausgabe“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „Speicher- und Dateisysteme“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Wettbewerb „Student Cluster Competition“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Energy-Efficient Programming“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Manuel Dolz)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt mit Seminar „Energieeffizienzanalysen für Parallelrechner“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Proseminar „Werkzeuge für das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „C - Grundlagen und Konzepte“ (Ansprechpartner: Michaela Zimmer)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Wettbewerb „Student Cluster Competition“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Effiziente Programmierung in C“ (Ansprechpartner: Nathanael Hübbe)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Proseminar „C - Grundlagen und Konzepte“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „Ein-/Ausgabe - Stand der Wissenschaft“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „Architekturen von Hochleistungsrechnern“ (Ansprechpartner: Nathanael Hübbe)
• Seminar „Effiziente Programmierung in C“ (Ansprechpartner: Nathanael Hübbe)
• Praktikum „Aufbau eines (heterogenen) Clusters“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Workshop „Versionsverwaltung mit Git“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Proseminar „Speicher- und Dateisysteme“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Vorlesung „Programmierung für Naturwissenschaften“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Leistungsanalyse unter Linux“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)
• Workshop „Programmierung mit C“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)
• Workshop „Versionsverwaltung mit Git“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Workshop „Programmierung mit C“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)
• Praktikum „Betriebssystemnahe C-Programmierung“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „C-Programmierung - Grundlagen und Konzepte“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Timo Minartz)
• Vorlesung „Programmierung für Naturwissenschaften“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Projekt „Parallelrechnerevaluation“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Proseminar „Speicher- und Dateisysteme“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Workshop „Programmierung mit C“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)
• Workshop „Versionsverwaltung mit Git“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)

• Vorlesung „Hochleistungsrechnen“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Michael Kuhn)
• Seminar „Systemmonitoring unter Linux“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)

• Seminar „Android: Plattform für mobile Geräte“ (Ansprechpartner: Dr. Julian Kunkel)

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• Towards Green Scientific Data Compression Through High-Level I/O Interfaces (Yevhen Alforov, Anastasiia Novikova, Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig), In TBD, SBAC-PAD 2018, Lyon, France, 2018-09
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• Mission possible: Unify HPC and Big Data stacks towards application-defined blobs at the storage layer (Pierre Matri, Yevhen Alforov, Álvaro Brandon, María S. Pérez, Alexandru Costan, Gabriel Antoniu, Michael Kuhn, Philip Carns, Thomas Ludwig), In Future Generation Computer Systems, (Editors: Peter Sloot), Elsevier, 2018-07
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• Poster: Performance Conscious HPC (PeCoH) – 2018 (Kai Himstedt, Nathanael Hübbe, Sandra Schröder, Hendryk Bockelmann, Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig, Stephan Olbrich, Matthias Riebisch, Markus Stammberger, Hinnerk Stüben), Frankfurt, Germany, ISC High Performance 2018, 2018-06-26
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• Towards an HPC Certification Program (Julian Kunkel, Kai Himstedt, Nathanael Hübbe, Hinnerk Stüben, Sandra Schröder, Michael Kuhn, Matthias Riebisch, Stephan Olbrich, Thomas Ludwig, Weronika Filinger, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Anja Gerbes, Lev Lafayette), In Journal of Computational Science Education, (Editors: Steven I. Gordon), 2018 (to be published)
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• Poster: Adaptive Tier Selection for NetCDF and HDF5 (Jakob Lüttgau, Eugen Betke, Olga Perevalova, Julian Kunkel, Michael Kuhn), Denver, CO, USA, SC17, 2017-11-14
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• JULEA: A Flexible Storage Framework for HPC (Michael Kuhn), In High Performance Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (10524), (Editors: Julian Kunkel, Rio Yokota, Michela Taufer, John Shalf), Springer International Publishing, ISC High Performance 2017, Frankfurt, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-319-67629-6, 2017-11
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• Poster: The use of ICON data within SAGA GIS for decision support in agricultural crop land utilisation (Jannek Squar, Michael Bock, Olaf Conrad, Christoph Geck, Tobias Kawohl, Michael Kuhn, Lars Landschreiber, Hermann Lenhart, Sandra Wendland, Thomas Ludwig, Jürgen Böhner), Hamburg, Germany, DKRZ user workshop 2017, 2017-10-09
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• Could Blobs Fuel Storage-Based Convergence Between HPC and Big Data? (Pierre Matri, Yevhen Alforov, Alvaro Brandon, Michael Kuhn, Philip Carns, Thomas Ludwig), In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pp. 81–86, IEEE Computer Society, CLUSTER 2017, Honolulu, USA, ISBN: 978-1-5386-2326-8, 2017-09
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• Poster: Performance Conscious HPC (PeCoH) (Julian Kunkel, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig, Matthias Riebisch, Stephan Olbrich, Hinnerk Stüben, Kai Himstedt, Hendryk Bockelmann, Markus Stammberger), Frankfurt, Germany, ISC High Performance 2017, 2017-06-20
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• Poster: i_SSS – integrated Support System for Sustainability (Jannek Squar, Michael Bock, Olaf Conrad, Christoph Geck, Tobias Kawohl, Michael Kuhn, Lars Landschreiber, Hermann Lenhart, Sandra Wendland, Thomas Ludwig, Jürgen Böhner), Frankfurt, Germany, ISC High Performance 2017, 2017-06-20
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• Poster: Enhanced Adaptive Compression in Lustre (Anna Fuchs, Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig), Frankfurt, Germany, ISC High Performance 2017, 2017-06-20
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• Poster: Towards Energy-Efficient Data Reduction Through High-Level I/O Interfaces (Yevhen Alforov, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), Frankfurt, Germany, ISC High Performance 2017, 2017-06-19
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• Performance and Power Optimization (Michael Kuhn, Konstantinos Chasapis, Manuela Kuhn, Janusz Malka, Thomas Stibor, Gvozden Nešković), In Helmholtz Portfolio Theme Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis (LSDMA) (Christopher Jung, Jörg Meyer, Achim Streit), pp. 141–160, KIT Scientific Publishing (Karlsruhe, Germany), ISBN: 978-3-7315-0695-9, 2017
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• Analyzing the energy consumption of the storage data path (Pablo Llopis, Manuel F. Dolz, Javier Garcia Blas, Florin Isaila, Mohammad Reza Heidari, Michael Kuhn), In The Journal of Supercomputing, Series: Number 11227, pp. 1–18, (Editors: Hamid Arabnia), Springer US, ISSN: 0920-8542, 2016
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• ArduPower: A low-cost wattmeter to improve energy efficiency of HPC applications (Manuel F. Dolz, Mohammad Reza Heidari, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig, Germán Fabregat), In Sixth International Green Computing Conference and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC) 2015, pp. 1–8, IEEE, IGSC 2015, Las Vegas, USA, 2015-12
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• MPI-Checker - Static Analysis for MPI (Alexander Droste, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC, LLVM '15, ACM (New York, USA), SC15, Austin, Texas, USA, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4005-2, 2015-11
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• Analyzing Power Consumption of I/O Operations in HPC Applications (Pablo Llopis, Manuel F. Dolz, Javier García-Blas, Florin Isaila, Jesús Carretero, Mohammad Reza Heidari, Michael Kuhn), In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS 2015), pp. 107–116, (Editors: Jesus Carretero, Javier Garcia Blas, Roman Wyrzykowski, Emmanuel Jeannot), Computer Architecture, Communications and Systems Group (ARCOS) (Madrid, Spain), NESUS 2015, Jesus Carretero, Krakow, Poland, ISBN: 978-84-608-2581-4, 2015-10
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• A Best Practice Analysis of HDF5 and NetCDF-4 Using Lustre (Christopher Bartz, Konstantinos Chasapis, Michael Kuhn, Petra Nerge, Thomas Ludwig), In High Performance Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9137), pp. 274–281, (Editors: Julian Martin Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig), Springer International Publishing (Switzerland), ISC 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-319-20118-4, ISSN: 0302-9743, 2015-06
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• Dynamically Adaptable I/O Semantics for High Performance Computing (Michael Kuhn), In High Performance Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9137), pp. 240–256, (Editors: Julian Martin Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig), Springer International Publishing (Switzerland), ISC 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-319-20118-4, ISSN: 0302-9743, 2015-06
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• Big Data Research at DKRZ – Climate Model Data Production Workflow (Michael Lautenschlager, Panagiotis Adamidis, Michael Kuhn), In Big Data and High Performance Computing (Lucio Grandinetti, Gerhard Joubert, Marcel Kunze, Valerio Pascucci), Series: Advances in Parallel Computing, Edition: 26, pp. 133–155, IOS Press, ISBN: 978-1-61499-582-1, 2015
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• Poster: Performance Implications of NUMA and Multi-Core in Lustre's Metadata Server (Konstantinos Chasapis, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), Leipzig, Germany, International Supercomputing Conference 2014, 2014-06-23
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• Poster: Compression By Default – Reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Storage Systems (Michael Kuhn, Konstantinos Chasapis, Manuel Dolz, Thomas Ludwig), Leipzig, Germany, International Supercomputing Conference 2014, 2014-06-23
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• Compression By Default - Reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Storage Systems (Michael Kuhn, Konstantinos Chasapis, Manuel Dolz, Thomas Ludwig), In Supercomputing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (8488), (Editors: Julian Martin Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig, Hans Werner Meuer), Springer International Publishing (Berlin, Heidelberg), ISC 2014, Leipzig, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-319-07517-4, ISSN: 0302-9743, 2014-06
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• Evaluating Power-Performace Benefits of Data Compression in HPC Storage Servers (Konstantinos Chasapis, Manuel Dolz, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), In IARIA Conference, pp. 29–34, (Editors: Steffen Fries, Petre Dini), IARIA XPS Press, ENERGY 2014, Chamonix, France, ISBN: 978-1-61208-332-2, ISSN: 2308-412X, 2014-04-20 – Awards: Best Paper
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• Evaluating Lustre's Metadata Server on a Multi-socket Platform (Konstantinos Chasapis, Manuel Dolz, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), In Proceedings of the 9th Parallel Data Storage Workshop, PDSW (2014), pp. 13–18, IEEE Press (Piscataway, NJ, USA), SC14, New Orleans, Louisiana, ISBN: 978-1-4799-7025-4, 2014
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• Poster: An Analysis of Lustre Metadata Server Scalability (Konstantinos Chasapis, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), Leipzig, Germany, International Supercomputing Conference 2013, 2013-06-17
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• A Semantics-Aware I/O Interface for High Performance Computing (Michael Kuhn), In Supercomputing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (7905), pp. 408–421, (Editors: Julian Martin Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig, Hans Werner Meuer), Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg), ISC 2013, Leipzig, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-642-38749-4, ISSN: 0302-9743, 2013-06
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• A Study on Data Deduplication in HPC Storage Systems (Dirk Meister, Jürgen Kaiser, Andre Brinkmann, Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Toni Cortes), In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing (SC), IEEE Computer Society, SC'12, Salt Lake City, USA, 2012-11-10
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• Optimizations for Two-Phase Collective I/O (Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Yuichi Tsujita, Hidetaka Muguruma, Thomas Ludwig), In Applications, Tools and Techniques on the Road to Exascale Computing, Advances in Parallel Computing (22), pp. 455–462, (Editors: Koen De Bosschere, Erik H. D'Hollander, Gerhard R. Joubert, David Padua, Frans Peters), IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Tokyo, Washington DC), ParCo 2011, University of Ghent, ELIS Department, Ghent, Belgium, ISBN: 978-1-61499-040-6, ISSN: 0927-5452, 2012
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• Simulation-Aided Performance Evaluation of Server-Side Input/Output Optimizations (Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig), In 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, pp. 562–566, (Editors: Rainer Stotzka, Michael Schiffers, Yiannis Cotronis), IEEE Computer Society (Los Alamitos, Washington, Tokyo), PDP 2012, Munich Network Management Team, Garching, Germany, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4633-9, ISSN: 1066-6192, 2012
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• Evaluating the Influence of File System Interfaces and Semantics on I/O Throughput in High Performance Computing (Christina Janssen, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), In Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session, 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, SEA-Publications (31), (Editors: Erwin Grosspietsch, Konrad Klöckner), Institute for Systems Engineering and Automation (Johannes Kepler University Linz), PDP 2012, Munich Network Management Team, Garching, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-902457-31-8, 2012
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• Scientific Computing: Performance and Efficiency in Climate Models (Sandra Schröder, Michael Kuhn, Nathanael Hübbe, Julian Kunkel, Timo Minartz, Petra Nerge, Florens Wasserfall, Thomas Ludwig), In Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session, 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, SEA-Publications (31), (Editors: Erwin Grosspietsch, Konrad Klöckner), Institute for Systems Engineering and Automation (Johannes Kepler University Linz), PDP 2012, Munich Network Management Team, Garching, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-902457-31-8, 2012
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• Tool Environments to Measure Power Consumption and Computational Performance (Timo Minartz, Daniel Molka, Julian Kunkel, Michael Knobloch, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), In Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing (Ishfaq Ahmad, Sanjay Ranka), Chapters: 31, pp. 709–743, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group (6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Boca Raton, FL 33487), ISBN: 978-1-4398-5040-4, 2012
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• Towards an Energy-Aware Scientific I/O Interface – Stretching the ADIOS Interface to Foster Performance Analysis and Energy Awareness (Julian Kunkel, Timo Minartz, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), In Computer Science - Research and Development, Series: 1, (Editors: Thomas Ludwig), Springer (Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany), 2011
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• Poster: Benchmarking Application I/O in the Community (Julian Kunkel, Olga Mordvinova, Dennis Runz, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), Hamburg, Germany, International Supercomputing Conference, 2010-06-01
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• Collecting Energy Consumption of Scientific Data (Julian Kunkel, Olga Mordvinova, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), In Computer Science - Research and Development, Series: 3, pp. 1–9, (Editors: Thomas Ludwig), Springer (Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany), ISSN: 1865-2034, 2010
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• Dynamic file system semantics to enable metadata optimizations in PVFS (Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig), In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Series: 21-14, pp. 1775–1788, John Wiley and Sons Ltd. (Chichester, UK), ISSN: 1532-0626, 2009
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• Directory-Based Metadata Optimizations for Small Files in PVFS (Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig), In Euro-Par '08: Proceedings of the 14th international Euro-Par conference on Parallel Processing, pp. 90–99, Springer-Verlag (Berlin, Heidelberg), Euro-Par-08, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, ISBN: 978-3-540-85450-0, 2008 – Awards: Best Paper
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• Analysis of the MPI-IO Optimization Levels with the PIOViz Jumpshot Enhancement (Thomas Ludwig, Stephan Krempel, Michael Kuhn, Julian Kunkel, Christian Lohse), In Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4757), pp. 213–222, (Editors: Franck Cappello, Thomas Hérault, Jack Dongarra), Springer (Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany), EuroPVM/MPI-07, Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatique, Paris, France, ISBN: 978-3-540-75415-2, 2007
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• CATO - Compiler assisted source-to-source transformation of OpenMP kernels to utilise distributed memory (Jannek Squar, Michael Blesel, Tim Jammer, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig), OpenMPCon 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 2018-09-25 Presentation
• Data-Intensive High-Performance Computing (Michael Kuhn), Gauß-Allianz Booth at ISC High Performance, Frankfurt, Germany, 2018-06-26 Presentation
• Convergence of High Performance Computing and Big Data (Michael Kuhn), DKRZ Tour “Computational Sciences in Engineering”, Hamburg, Germany, 2018-05-23 Presentation

• High Performance Computing and I/O (Michael Kuhn), PIER Graduate Week 2017, Hamburg, Germany, 2017-10-09 Presentation
• Accelerating Storage System Research Through a Common Framework (Michael Kuhn), 6th International LSDMA Symposium, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2017-08-29 Presentation
• JULEA: A Flexible Storage Framework for HPC (Michael Kuhn), Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS), Frankfurt, Germany, 2017-06-22 Presentation
• High Performance I/O (Michael Kuhn), DKRZ Tour “Computational Sciences in Engineering”, Hamburg, Germany, 2017-06-08 Presentation
• The Case for a Flexible HPC Storage Framework (Michael Kuhn), Dagstuhl Seminar “Challenges and Opportunities of User-Level File Systems for HPC” (17202), Wadern, Germany, 2017-05-18 Presentation

• BigStorage (Michael Kuhn), LSDMA Technical Forum, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2016-10-06 Presentation
• Lustre usage and compression at DKRZ (Michael Kuhn), Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2016, Paris, France, 2016-09-21 Presentation
• Enhanced Adaptive Compression in Lustre (Michael Kuhn), LSDMA Spring Meeting 2016, Technical Forum, Darmstadt, Germany, 2016-03-09 Presentation
• Storage expenses and data reduction techniques (Michael Kuhn), BigStorage Initial Training School, Barcelona, Spain, 2016-03-04 Presentation
• Parallel distributed file systems (Michael Kuhn), BigStorage Initial Training School, Barcelona, Spain, 2016-03-03 Presentation

• Exploiting Semantical Information for Performance Optimization and Data Reduction (Michael Kuhn), CluStor 2015, Hamburg, Germany, 2015-07-30
• A Best Practice Analysis of HDF5 and NetCDF-4 Using Lustre (Michael Kuhn), ISC High Performance 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, 2015-07-15 Presentation
• Dynamically Adaptable I/O Semantics for High Performance Computing (Michael Kuhn), ISC High Performance 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, 2015-07-14 Presentation
• I/O Semantics for Future Storage Systems (Michael Kuhn), 14th HLRS/hww Workshop on Scalable Global Parallel File Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, 2015-04-29 Presentation

• Compression By Default – Reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Storage Systems (Michael Kuhn), International Supercomputing Conference 2014, Leipzig, Germany, 2014-06-23 Presentation
• Exascale Storage Systems – An Analytical Study of Expenses (Michael Kuhn), CluStor 2014, Hamburg, Germany, 2014-06-19

• A Semantics-Aware I/O Interface for High Performance Computing (Michael Kuhn), International Supercomputing Conference 2013, Leipzig, Germany, 2013-06-18 Presentation

• A Semantics-Aware I/O Interface (Michael Kuhn), HPC Workshop, Leogang, Austria, 2012-02-29
• Scientific Computing: Performance and Efficiency in Climate Models (Michael Kuhn), PDP 2012, Munich, Germany, 2012-02-17 Presentation
• Evaluating the Influence of File System Interfaces and Semantics on I/O Throughput in High Performance Computing (Michael Kuhn), PDP 2012, Munich, Germany, 2012-02-17 Presentation
• Simulation-Aided Performance Evaluation of Server-Side Input/Output Optimizations (Michael Kuhn), PDP 2012, Munich, Germany, 2012-02-16 Presentation

• Optimizations for Two-Phase Collective I/O (Michael Kuhn), ParCo 2011, Ghent, Belgium, 2011-09-02 Presentation

• Directory-Based Metadata Optimizations for Small Files in PVFS (Michael Kuhn), Euro-Par 2008, Gran Canaria, Spain, 2008-08-29 Presentation

• File Systems for Mass Storage of Image Data in Bioinformatics (Michael Kuhn, Christian Lohse), CluStor 2006, Heidelberg, Germany, 2006-09-21

• Learned Index Structures: An Evalution of their Performance in Key-Value Storage Solutions (Leonhard Reichenbach), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Jakob Lüttgau, Reviewers: Michael Kuhn, Jakob Lüttgau, 2018-09-10, Thesis BibTeX
• Leistungsverbesserung der Simulation von 3D Strahlung auf extrasolare Planeten (Oliver Pola), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Peter Hauschildt, Michael Kuhn, Jannek Squar, Reviewers: Michael Kuhn, Peter Hauschildt, 2018-08-06, Thesis BibTeX
• Development of a decision support system for performance tuning in Lustre (Julius Plehn), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Anna Fuchs, 2018-05-23, Thesis BibTeX
• Optimizing ArduPower (Daniel Bremer), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Mohammad Reza Heidari, 2018-03-07, Thesis BibTeX
• Modern Storage Stack with Key-Value Store Interface and Snapshots Based on Copy-On-Write Bε-Trees (Felix Wiedemann), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2018-01-11, Thesis BibTeX Sources

• Compiler assisted translation of OpenMP to MPI using LLVM (Michael Blesel), Bachlor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2017-10-14, Thesis BibTeX
• Simulation of Storage Tiering and Data Migration (Kira Duwe), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2017-09-18, Thesis BibTeX URL
• Efficient interaction between Lustre and ZFS for compression (Sven Schmidt), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Anna Fuchs, Michael Kuhn, 2017-08-28, Thesis BibTeX
• Page-Based Compression in the Linux Kernel (Benjamin Warnke), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Anna Fuchs, 2017-08-18, Thesis BibTeX
• Dynamic decision-making for efficient compression in parallel distributed file systems (Janosch Hirsch), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Anna Fuchs, 2017-08-12, Thesis BibTeX
• Static Code Analysis for HPC Use Cases (Frank Röder), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Alexander Droste, Michael Kuhn, 2017-07-26, Thesis BibTeX
• Database VOL-plugin for HDF5 (Olga Perevalova), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Eugen Betke, 2017-07-05, Thesis BibTeX
• A Numerical Approach to Nonlinear Regression Analysis by Evolving Parameters (Christopher Gerlach), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2017-06-29, Thesis BibTeX
• Quality of service improvement in ZFS through compression (Niklas Bunge), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Anna Fuchs, 2017-05-31, Thesis BibTeX
• Support for external data transformation in ZFS (Niklas Behrmann), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Anna Fuchs, 2017-04-06, Thesis BibTeX
• Suitability analysis of Object Storage for HPC workloads (Lars Thoms), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2017-03-23, Thesis BibTeX

• Energy usage analysis of HPC applications (Tim Jammer), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Hermann Lenhart, Michael Kuhn, 2016-12-06, BibTeX
• MPI-3 algorithms for 3D radiative transfer on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (Jannek Squar), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Peter Hauschildt, Michael Kuhn, 2016-10-20, Thesis BibTeX URL
• Suitability Analysis of GPUs and CPUs for Graph Algorithms (Kristina Tesch), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2016-09-27, Thesis BibTeX
• Leistungs- und Genauigkeitsanalyse numerischer Löser für Differentialgleichungen (Joel Graef), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Fabian Große, Michael Kuhn, 2016-09-12, Thesis BibTeX
• Performanceanalyse der Ein-/Ausgabe des Ökologiemodells ECOHAM5 (Simon Kostede), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Fabian Große, Hermann Lenhart, 2016-08-22, Thesis BibTeX
• Client-Side Data Transformation in Lustre (Anna Fuchs), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2016-05-25, BibTeX

• Advanced Data Transformation and Reduction Techniques in ADIOS (Tim Alexander Dobert), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2015-10-07, BibTeX
• Static Code Analysis of MPI Schemas in C with LLVM (Alexander Droste), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2015-09-25, BibTeX
• Evaluation of performance and productivity metrics of potential programming languages in the HPC environment (Florian Wilkens), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Sandra Schröder, 2015-04-28, BibTeX
• Adaptive Compression for the Zettabyte File System (Florian Ehmke), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2015-02-24, Thesis BibTeX

• Performance Evaluation of Data Encryption in File Systems – Benchmarking ext4, ZFS, LUKS and eCryptfs (Hajo Möller), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, Konstantinos Chasapis, 2014-12-16, BibTeX
• Implementierung und Leistungsanalyse numerischer Algorithmen zur Methode der kleinsten Quadrate (Niklas Behrmann), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Petra Nerge, Michael Kuhn, 2014-12-16, BibTeX
• Einsatz von Beschleunigerkarten für das Postprocessing großer Datensätze (Jannek Squar), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Petra Nerge, Michael Kuhn, 2014-12-03, Thesis BibTeX URL
• Comparison of kernel and user space file systems (Kira Duwe), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2014-08-28, Thesis BibTeX URL
• Optimization and parallelization of the post-processing of a tidal simulation (Dominik Rupp), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Petra Nerge, Michael Kuhn, 2014-04-25, BibTeX
• An in-depth analysis of parallel high level I/O interfaces using HDF5 and NetCDF-4 (Christopher Bartz), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Konstantinos Chasapis, Michael Kuhn, Petra Nerge, 2014-04-07, Thesis BibTeX

• Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Low-Level Extent-Based Object Store (Sandra Schröder), Master's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2013-12-18, Thesis BibTeX
• Automated File System Correctness and Performance Regression Tests (Anna Fuchs), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2013-09-23, Thesis BibTeX URL
• Evaluating Distributed Database Systems for Use in File Systems (Roman Michel), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2013-09-18, BibTeX
• Evaluation of Different Storage Backends and Technologies for MongoDB (Johann Weging), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2013-02-28, BibTeX

• Evaluation of File Systems and I/O Optimization Techniques in High Performance Computing (Christina Janssen), Bachelor's Thesis, Advisors: Michael Kuhn, 2011-12-05, Thesis BibTeX URL