Upcoming BoF at Supercomputing 2019

Distributed data services can enhance HPC productivity by providing storage, analysis, and visualization capabilities not otherwise present in conventional parallel file systems. Such services are difficult to develop, maintain, and deploy in a scientific workflow, however, due to the complexities of specialized HPC networks, RDMA data transfers, protocol encoding, and fault tolerance.

This BoF will bring together a growing community of researchers, developers, vendors, and facility operators who are either using or developing HPC data services. Participants will share and discuss practical experiences, implementation examples, new features, and best practices to construct and deploy production-quality, high-performance distributed services.

The BoF is held in conjunction with the Supercomputing conference. The schedule is listed here, see also the following link.

Date	Time	Location
Tuesday, November 19th 2019	5:15pm - 6:45pm	501/502

Agenda

Slides from the BoF are available at this link.

• Introduction to Data Services in HPC and BoF directions (Jerome Soumagne)
• Panel Discussion (moderator: Rob Ross)
  • Hardware and Facilities: trends and challenges
  • Software: development, test, scaling, maintenance challenges
  • User/developer Adoption: barriers and challenges
  • Vision and long term directions

Q&A with the panelists and experience sharing are very much encouraged!

Panelists

Will be leading the panel discussion and provide each their own perspective on HPC data services:

• André Brinkmann (JGU)
• Stéphane Ethier (PPPL)
• Paolo Faraboschi (HPE)
• Glenn Lockwood (NERSC)
• Carlos Maltzahn (UC Santa Cruz)

Organization

The BoF is organized by:

• Jerome Soumagne (The HDF Group)
• Phil Carns (Argonne National Laboratory)
• Mohamad Chaarawi (Intel Corporation)
• Kevin Huck (University of Oregon)
• Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)
• Robert B. Ross (Argonne National Laboratory)