[lustre-devel] PDSW-DISCS'16 Call for Papers deadline extended

[Dilger, Andreas]

The deadline for paper submissions for PDSW-DISCS'16 has been extended
to this Sunday, September 11th.  Please consider contributing a paper
related to any interesting work that you are doing with or on Lustre.

Cheers, Andreas
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Held in conjunction with SC16: The International Conference for
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,
Salt Lake City, UT, and in cooperation with SIGHPC.

Monday, November 14, 2016 9:00am ­ 5:30pm
General Co­Chairs: Garth Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University)
                   Yong Chen (Texas Tech University)
Program Co­Chairs: Shane Canon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
                   Dean Hildebrand (IBM Research)
URL: http://www.pdsw.org/

Workshop Abstract:

We are pleased to announce that the first Joint International Workshop
on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems
(PDSW­DISCS’16) will be hosted at SC16: The International Conference
for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. The
objective of this one-day joint workshop is to combine two overlapping
communities and to better promote and stimulate researchers’ interactions
to address some of the most critical challenges for scientific data
storage, management, devices, and processing infrastructure for both
traditional compute intensive simulations and data­intensive high
performance computing solutions. Special attention will be given to
issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem
identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards
with community buy­in, and shared tools.

Many scientific problem domains continue to be extremely data intensive.
Traditional high performance computing (HPC) systems and the programming
models for using them such as MPI were designed from a compute­centric
perspective with an emphasis on achieving high floating point computation
rates. But processing, memory, and storage technologies have not kept
pace and there is a widening performance gap between computation and
the data management infrastructure. Hence data management has become
the performance bottleneck for a significant number of applications
targeting HPC systems. Concurrently, there are increasing challenges in
meeting the growing demand for analyzing experimental and observational
data. In many cases, this is leading new communities to look towards
HPC platforms. In addition, the broader computing space has seen a
revolution in new tools and frameworks to support Big Data analysis
and machine learning.

There is a growing need for convergence between these two worlds.
Consequently, the U.S. Congressional Office of Management and Budget
has informed the U.S. Department of Energy that new machines beyond the
first exascale machines must address both the traditional simulation
workloads as well as data intensive applications. This coming convergence
prompts integrating these two workshops into a single entity to address
the common challenges.

The scope of the proposed joint PDSW­DISCS workshop is summarized as:
- Scalable storage architectures, archival storage, storage
  virtualization, emerging storage devices and techniques
- Performance benchmarking, resource management, and workload studies
  from production systems including both traditional HPC and data­
  intensive workloads.
- Programmability, APIs, and fault tolerance of storage systems
- Parallel file systems, metadata management, and complex data
  management, object and key­value storage, and other emerging data
  storage/retrieval techniques
- Programming models and frameworks for data intensive computing
  including extensions to traditional and nontraditional programming
  models, asynchronous multi­task programming models, or to data
  intensive programming models
- Techniques for data integrity, availability and reliability especially
- Productivity tools for data intensive computing, data mining and
  knowledge discovery
- Application or optimization of emerging “big data” frameworks towards
  scientific computing and analysis
- Techniques and architectures to enable cloud and container­based models
  for scientific computing and analysis
- Techniques for integrating compute into a complex memory and storage
  hierarchy facilitating in situ and in transit data processing
- Data filtering/compressing/reduction techniques that maintain
  sufficient scientific validity for large scale compute­intensive
  workloads
- Tools and techniques for managing data movement among compute and data
  intensive components both solely within the computational infrastructure
  as well as incorporating the memory/storage hierarchy

Paper Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdswdiscs2016
Paper (in pdf format) due Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, 11:59PM AoE
Notification: Friday, Sept. 30, 2016
Camera ready due: Friday, Oct. 7, 2016
Slides due before workshop: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016, 5:00 pm PDT

Paper Submission Details:

The PDSW­DISCS Workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for
selecting short papers. Submit a not previously published short paper
of up to 5 pages, not less than 10-point font and not including
references, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site.
Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop
program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations.
Papers must not be longer than 5 pages (excluding references). Selected
papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop
web site; the papers will also be published in the digital libraries of
the IEEE and ACM.  Submissions must be in the IEEE format, see:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Work­in­progress (WIP) Submissions: http://www.pdsw.org/

There will also be a WIP session at the workshop, where presenters give
5­minute brief talks on their on­going work, with fresh problems and
solutions, but may not be mature or complete yet for paper submission.
A 1­page abstract is required as instructed on the workshop web site.
WIP Submission Deadline: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016
WIP Notification: Monday, Nov. 7, 2016

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger

Lustre Principal Architect
Intel High Performance Data Division