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CALL
FOR PAPERS
IEEE
Workshop on High-Performance Storage (HPS), in conjunction with IPDPS’20, New Orleans, Louisiana
Abstract
submission (optional) deadline: January 25th, 2020
Paper
submission deadline: [January 31st, 2020] NEW DEADLINE February 7th, 2020.
Submission
page:
HPS
is a newly established workshop that covers all aspects of High-Performance I/O and storage, including storage hardware, storage systems, libraries, and I/O intensive applications.
The
recent years are seeing an accelerated evolution of high-end storage systems, libraries, and services, due to several reasons:
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Technology: The availability of an increasing number of persistent solid-state storage technologies that can replace either memory or disk is creating new opportunities for the structure of storage systems.
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Performance Requirements: Disk-based parallel file systems cannot satisfy the performance needs of high-end systems. It is not clear how solid-state storage is best used to alleviate the problem.
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Infrastructure evolution: HPC technology will not only be deployed in dedicated supercomputing centers in the future. “Embedded HPC”, “HPC in the box”, “HPC in the loop”, “HPC in the cloud”, “HPC as a service”, “near- to-real-time simulation” are concepts
requiring new small-scale deployment environments for HPC. A federation of systems and functions with consistent mechanisms for managing I/O, storage and data processing across all participating systems will be required, to creating a “continuum” of computing.
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Application Evolution: Data analysis, including graph analytics and machine learning training, are becoming increasingly important high-end applications. I/O is often a major bottleneck for such application, both in a cloud environment and in an HPC environment
– especially when fast turnaround or integration of heavy computation with heavy analysis are required.
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Virtualization and disaggregation: As virtualization and disaggregation become broadly used in cloud and HPC computing, the issues of virtualized storage and storage disaggregation have increasing importance.
The
workshop aims to bring together researchers and developers working on high-end storage systems, libraries and applications in HPC and clusters, and users of such systems that are interested in these issues.
HPS
20120 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to:
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High-end storage systems
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Parallel and distributed high-end storage organizations
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The synergy between different storage models (POSIX file system, object storage, key-value, row-oriented, and column-oriented databases)
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Storage and data processing architectures and systems for hybrid HPC/cloud/edge infrastructures
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Structures and interfaces for leveraging persistent solid-state storage
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High-performing I/O libraries and services
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I/O performance in high-end systems and applications
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Data reduction and compression
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Benchmarks and performance tools for high-end I/O
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Language and library support for data-centric computing
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Storage virtualization and disaggregation
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Active processing in storage technologies.
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Ephemeral storage media and consistency optimizations
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Storage architectures and systems for scalable stream-based processing
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Study cases of I/O services in support of various application domains (bioinformatics, scientific simulations, large observatories, and experimental facilities, etc.)
Papers
should present original research and provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community.
Submission
Info:
The
workshop will accept traditional research papers (8-10 pages) for in-depth topics and short papers (4-8 pages) for works in progress on hot topics.
Paper
format: single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates
for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available here:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Important
Dates:
Abstract
submission (optional) deadline: January 25th, 2020
Paper
submission deadline: January 31st, 2020
Acceptance
notification: February 28th, 2020
Camera-ready
deadline: March 20th, 2020
Workshop:
May 22th, 2020
Organization
Conference
Co-Chairs
Kathryn
Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Marc
Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Program
Co-Chairs
Gabriel
Antoniu, Inria, Rennes
Toni
Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Program
Committee
John
Bent, Seagate Systems, USA
Angelos
Bilas, Forth, Greece
André
Brinkmann, U Mainz, Germany
Suren
Byna, LLBL, USA
Franck
Cappello, ANL, USA
Jesus
Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Alexandru
Costan, Inria and INSA Rennes, France
Matthieu
Dorier, Argonne National Lab, USA
Carlos
Maltzan, University of California, Santa Cruz
Bogdan
Nicolae, Argonne National Lab, USA
Manish
Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Maria
Pérez, UPM, Spain
Dana
Petcu, University West Timisoara, Romania
Rob
Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Michael
Schoettner, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Xuanhua
Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Domenico
Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Osamu
Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Kento
Sato, RIKEN, Japan
Weikuan
Yu, Florida State University, USA