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<div>We are cancelling tomorrow’s Benchmark Working Group session. We will resume next week June 8<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font>.</div>
<div>Please excuse the last minute cancellation notice. </div>
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<div>Richard Vanderbilt Co-Chair BWG</div>
<div>Sarp Oral Co-Chair</div>
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<div>The OpenSFS Benchmarking Workgroup aims to provide an I/O benchmark suite to satisfy the benchmarking requirements of the scalable parallel file system users and facilities. Towards this end, as a first step, the workgroup aims to characterize the I/O
workloads from small- to very large-scale scalable parallel file systems deployed at various high-performance computing and parallel computing facilities and institutions. Using these gathered characteristics, the workgroup will then collect and build the required
I/O benchmarks to emulate these workloads and provide required documentation about the benchmark suite.</div>
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<div>The workgroup meeting will reoccur every Friday at 8:30am Pacific time. 1 hour each. The dial-in is as follows: 1(866)844-9418 id# 4088226016.</div>
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<div>Also note: we will be having our first face to face meeting on Sunday April 22nd from 2:00-5:00pm at the LUG. Details to come.</div>
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<div>On Tuesday April 24 4:10-5:00pm there will be a Benchmark panel discussion moderated by Sarp Oral. Panelist will be Jeremy Filizetti (DOD), Andrew Uselton (NERSC), Eric Barton (Whamcloud), Nathan Rutman (Xyratex), Stephane Thiell (CEA), and Stephen Simms
(IU).</div>
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<div>If you are interested in contributing to this work group, please email Sarp Oral at <a href="mailto:oralhs@ornl.gov">oralhs@ornl.gov</a> or myself at <a href="mailto:richard.vanderbilt@netapp.com">richard.vanderbilt@netapp.com</a>.</div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
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<div>Sarp Oral, PhD</div>
<div>National Center for Computational Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory <a href="mailto:oralhs@ornl.gov">oralhs@ornl.gov</a></div>
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<div>Richard Vanderbilt Co-chair</div>
<div>Netapp Inc.</div>
<div>(408)822-6016</div>
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