[DMANET] [Call for Participation] REX-IO Workshop at Cluster 2024: 4th Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to invite you to attend the 4th Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads (REX-IO 2024) to be held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2024 in Kobe, Japan.

* When: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 10:45 AM - 6:15 PM (Japan Standard Time)
* Where: Kobe International Conference Center, Room 403
* Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rexio/

Please find our workshop program below.

We look forward to welcoming you to the REX-IO 2024 workshop in Kobe!

Kind regards,
Arnab K. Paul (arnabp@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in<mailto:arnabp@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in>)
BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, India

Sarah M. Neuwirth (neuwirth@uni-mainz.de<mailto:neuwirth@uni-mainz.de>)
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Jay Lofstead (gflofst@sandia.gov<mailto:gflofst@sandia.gov>)
Sandia National Laboratories, USA

REX-IO 2024 Workshop Co-Chairs


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10:45am - 11:00am – Welcome Message & Speed Introduction

11:00am - 12:00pm – Keynote: Recent Trends in Ad-hoc HPC File Systems and Caching File Systems, Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba (Japan)

12:00pm - 1:15pm – Lunch Break

1:15pm - 1:45pm – Expert Talk I: Data in HPC: Data Optimization, Compression and Analysis, Kento Sato, RIKEN (Japan).

1:45pm - 2:15pm – Paper Talk I: Enabling High-Throughput Parallel I/O in Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations with openPMD and Darshan I/O Monitoring, Jeremy Williams, Daniel Medeiros, Stefan Costea, David Tskhakaya, Franz Poeschel, René Widera, Axel Huebl, Scott Klasky, Norbert Podhorszki, Leon Kos, Ales Podolnik, Jakub Hromadka, Tapish Narwal, Klaus Steiniger, Michael Bussmann, Erwin Laure and Stefano Markidis. KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), LeCAD, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS (Czechia), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA), and Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (Germany).

2:15pm - 2:45pm – Paper Talk II: Understanding Adaptable Storage for Diverse Workloads, Olga Kogiou, Hariharan Devarajan, Chen Wang, Weikuan Yu and Kathryn Mohror. Florida State University (USA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA).

2:45pm - 3:00pm – Coffee Break

3:00pm - 3:30pm – Expert Talk II: Unveiling I/O Insights of HPC Applications Using the Metric Proxy and FTIO, Ahmad Tarraf, TU Darmstadt (Germany).

3:30pm - 3:50pm – Short Paper Talk I: Object-Centric Data Management in HPC Workflows - A Case Study, Chen Wang, Houjun Tang, Jean Luca Bez and Suren Byna. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) and The Ohio State University (USA).

3:50pm - 4:10pm – Short Paper Talk II: Studying the Effects of Asynchronous I/O on HPC I/O Patterns, Arnav Gupta, Druva Dhakshinamoorthy and Arnab K. Paul. BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus (India).

4:10pm - 4:30pm – Short Paper Talk III: Challenges in Understanding Metadata Performance: A Case of Metadata Analysis Using Score-P, Boris Kosmynin and Radita Liem. RWTH Aachen University (Germany).

4:30pm - 4:45pm – Coffee Break

4:45pm - 5:15pm – Expert Talk III: Learning on the Edge: Unlocking the Storage Bottleneck with a Divide and Conquer Approach, Jalil Boukhobza, ENSTA Bretagne (France).

5:15pm - 5:45pm – Expert Talk IV: Measuring Mayhem, why current IO monitoring is not enough and what to do about it, Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories (USA).

5:45pm - 6:14pm – Expert Panel: Emerging HPC Workloads and the Future Direction of Parallel I/O Research
Panelists: Osamu Tatebe, Jay Lofstead, Ahmad Tarraf, Jalil Boukhobza
Moderator: Arnab K. Paul

6:14pm - 6:15pm – Closing Remarks


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Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Neuwirth
Co-Director, NHR South-West HPC Center
Research Group Head, High Performance Computing and its Applications

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzelweg 12
55099 Mainz | Germany

Office: ZDV, Room 01-339
Phone: +49 6131 39 23643
Email: neuwirth@uni-mainz.de<mailto:neuwirth@uni-mainz.de>
Website: https://www.hpca-group.de/
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