CHEOPS 21: Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems Virtual Edinburgh, UK, April 26, 2021 |
Conference website | https://cheops-workshop.github.io/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cheops21 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 10, 2021 |
Submission deadline | February 17, 2021 |
The first workshop on “Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems” (CHEOPS) is aimed at researchers, developers of scientific applications, engineers and everyone interested in the evolution of storage systems. As the developments of computing power, storage and network technologies continue to diverge, the bandwidth performance gap between them widens. This trend, combined with the ever growing data volumes and data-driven computing such as machine learning, results in I/O and storage limitations, impacting the scalability and efficiency of current and future computing systems. Some of these challenges are quantitative, such as scale to match Exascale system requirements, or latency reduction of the software stack to efficiently integrate new generations of hardware like storage class memory (SCM). Some other issues are more subtle and arise with the increased complexity of the storage solutions, like new smarter and more potent data management tools, monitoring systems or interoperability between I/O components or data formats.
The main objective of this workshop is to present state-of-the-art research, innovative ideas and experiences that focus on the design and implementation of storage systems in both academic and industrial worlds.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
In order to guarantee the quality of the submissions, we have formed a globally distributed, diverse program committee. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. We will use EasyChair to manage the submissions. The reviewing process will be double blind with at least 3 reviews for each submission. An online discussion will determine which papers to accept.
Only original and novel work not currently under review in other venues will be considered for publication. Submissions can either be full papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). The page count includes the title, text, figures, appendices but excludes the references. They must be submitted electronically as PDF files formatted according to the submission rules of EuroSys. Accepted submissions will have to comply with the EuroSys proceedings format. One author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and present the paper.
Since the workshop will take place virtually, attendance will by done via video conferencing and a chat. Attendees can watch the workshop using a video conferencing solution or a video streaming solution such as YouTube. Questions can be asked via a chat system such as Slack. Presentations have to be given either via pre-recorded video or live stream. In both cases, the organizers will collect questions during the workshop and perform a live Q&A session with the presenter. More details will be published closer to the workshop.
List of Topics
Submissions may be more hands-on than research papers and we therefore explicitly encourage submissions in the early stages of research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Operating system optimizations
- Kernel and user space file/storage systems
- Including virtual file systems
- Cloud, parallel and distributed file/storage systems
- Network challenges, such as scalability, QoS and partitionability
- Approaches for low-latency and heterogeneous storage systems
- Non-volatile memory technology and integration
- Metadata management
- Machine Learning and AI
- Storage requirements of ML and AI applications
- Using ML and AI within storage systems (e.g., to replace heuristics)
- Hybrid solutions using file systems and databases
- Approaches using query and database interfaces
- Optimized indexing techniques
- Data organizations to support online workflows
- Domain-specific data management solutions
- Application I/O characterization
- Storage systems modeling and analysis tools
- Data reduction techniques such as compression and deduplication
- Security approaches for storage systems
- Encryption on different levels of the storage stack
- UI/UX for storage systems
- Related experiences from users: what worked, what didn’t?
- Feedback and empirical evaluation of storage systems
Committees
Program Committee
- Marco Aldinucci - University of Turin, Italy
- Julien Bigot - French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France
- Andreas Dilger - Whamcloud, USA
- Leonardo Bautista Gomez - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
- Christos Kozanitis - Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece
- Julian Kunkel - University of Reading, UK
- Jay Lofstead - Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), USA
- Johann Lombardi - Intel, France
- Sebastian Lührs - Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany
- Jakob Lüttgau - German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), Germany
- George Markomanolis - IT Center for Science Ltd. (CSC), Finland
- Ramon Nou - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
- Anastasios Papagiannis - Facebook, UK
Steering committee
- Michael Kuhn - Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), Germany
- Kira Duwe - Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), Germany
- Jean-Thomas Acquaviva - DDN, France
- Konstantinos Chasapis - DDN, France
- Jalil Boukhobza - National Institute of Advanced Technologies of Brittany (ENSTA Bretagne), France
Key note speaker
Suren Byna from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA will deliver a keynote: " "Parallel I/O at Exascale with HDF5 and Proactive Data Containers"
Publication
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review journal.
Venue
Initially planned to be held in the beautiful city of Edinburg, for obvious reason the 2021 edition of the conference will be held in remotely.
CHEOPS is co-hosted by Eurosys'21 Conference.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to michael.kuhn@ovgu.de