Fifth Workshop on Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platforms - Scalable Infrastructures

Next-generation HPC platforms have increasing heterogeneity in their communications, I/O and storage subsystems. These subsystems include internal high-speed fabrics and SmartNICs for inter-node communication; storage systems integrated with programmable data processing units (DPUs) and infrastructure processing units (IPUs) to support software-defined networks; traditional storage infrastructures with parallel POSIX-based filesystems complemented with scalable object storage; and heterogeneous compute nodes configured with a diverse spectrum of CPUs and accelerators (e.g., GPU, FPGA, AI accelerators). The workshop will pursue multiple objectives, including: (1) develop and provide a holistic overview of next-generation platforms with an emphasis on communication, I/O, and storage at scale, (2) showcase application-driven performance analysis with various HPC fabrics, (3) present early experiences with emerging storage and I/O concepts like object stores using next-generation HPC fabrics, (4) share experience with performance tuning on heterogeneous platforms from multiple vendors, and (5) share best practices for application programming with complex communication, I/O, and storage at scale.

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Organizers:

• David Martin
• Amit Ruhela
• Steffen Christgau
• John Pennycook
• Glenn Brooke
• Oscar Hernandez Mendoza