4th Petascale Data Storage Workshop
Supercomputing '09

Session Chair: Garth Gibson, CMU

Sunday, November 15, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room A106, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon

SC09 Workshop Web Page

Abstract | Attending the Workshop | Agenda | Call for Papers | Call for Posters
Camera Ready Submission Instructions | Submit a Proposal for the Poster Session
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Petascale Data Storage Workshops

WORKSHOP ABSTRACT

Petascale computing infrastructures make petascale demands on information storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in petascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: performance and benchmarking results and tools, failure tolerance problems and solutions, APIs for high performance features, parallel file systems, high bandwidth storage architectures, wide area file systems, metadata intensive workloads, autonomics for HPC storage, virtualization for storage systems, data-intensive and cloud storage,archival storage advances, resource management innovations, etc.

Submitted extended abstracts (up to 5 pages, due Sept. 18, 2009) will be peer reviewed for presentation and publication on www.pdsi-scidac.org and in the ACM digital library.

AGENDA

CALL FOR POSTERS

There will also be a poster presentation opportunity at the workshop. Parties interested in presenting a related technical poster should register their intentions, including a title and author list and short abstract paragraph, through the poster submission web site no later than November 9, 2009.

We have openings for up to 20 posters, at a maximum size of 36 x 48 inches, portrait orientation. Poster presenters will also be asked to provide a pdf copy of their poster for inclusion on the PDSW09 web site.

CALL FOR PAPERS

PDF of CFP poster [200K]

Paper Submission: Submission closed
Paper due (extended abstract in pdf format) Friday Sept. 18, 2009,
Deadline extended to Sunday, September 20, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EDT
Notification: Monday Oct. 12, 2009
Camera-ready due Monday Nov. 9, 2009 - INSTRUCTIONS
Slides due Friday Nov. 13, 2009 BEFORE the workshop

Paper Submission Details:
The petascale data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a not previously published extended abstract of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, 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. Selected papers and associated talks will be made available on the workshop web site. The workshop proceedings will be published in association with SC09 in the ACM digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site.

ATTENDING THE WORKSHOP

Please be aware that all attendees to the workshop, both speakers and participants, will have to pay an SC09 registration fee. However, there will be available a one-day Workshop-only registration fee at a much reduced rate relative to the weeklong conference registration fee ($150).

STUDENT VOLUNTEERS TO SC09: Student volunteers that have free SC09 registration also have free PDSW registration.

To attend the workshop, please register through the Supercomputing '09 registration web page.

Committee:
Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc.
Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Information Technology Integration
Gary A. Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratory
Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
William T. C. Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Other Workshops & Panels of Interest at SC09

pNFS: Parallel Storage Client and Server Development Panel Update

Primary Session Leader:
Joshua Konkle (NetApp)

Birds-of-a-Feather Session Tuesday, 05:30PM - 07:00PM
Room E143-144

This panel will appeal to Virtual Data Center Managers, Database Server administrators, and those that are seeking a fundamental understanding pNFS. This panel will cover the four key reasons to start working with NFSv4 today. Explain the storage layouts for parallel NFS; NFSv4.1 Files, Blocks and T10 OSD Objects. We’ll engage the panel with a series of questions related to client technology, storage layouts, data management, virtualization, databases, geoscience, video production, finite element analysis, MPI-IO client/file locking integration, data intensive searching, etc . You’ll have an opportunity to ask detailed questions about technology and panel participant plans from SNIA’s NFS Special Interest Group which is part of the Ethernet Storage Forum.