Second workshop on Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platforms – Scalable Infrastructures

ISC 2023 IXPUG Workshop

Event Description: The workshop intends to attract system architects, code developers, research scientists, system providers, and industry luminaries who are interested in learning about the interplay of next-generation hardware and software solutions for communication, I/O, and storage subsystems tied together to support HPC and data analytics at the systems level, and how to use them effectively. The workshop will provide the opportunity to assess technology roadmaps to support AI and HPC at scale, sharing users’ experiences with early-product releases and providing feedback to technology experts. The overall goal is to make the ISC community aware of the emerging complexity and heterogeneity of upcoming communication, I/O and storage subsystems as part of next-generation system architectures and inspect how these components contribute to scalability in both AI and HPC workloads.

The workshop will pursue several objectives: (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 concepts like object stores using next-generation HPC fabrics, (4) Share experience with performance tuning on heterogeneous platforms from multiple vendors, and (5) Be a forum for sharing best practices for performance tuning of communication, I/O, and storage to improve application performance at scale and any challenges.

Workshop Format: The workshop will have a keynote, full (30 min) talks and lightning talks (10-15 min). While in-person presentations are preferred, pre-recorded videos will be allowed as presentation in exceptional cases.

Submission Guidelines

Call for Submissions: The submission process will close on March 31, 2023 AoE. All submitters should provide content that represents an Extended Abstract, max. 6-12 pages in LNCS format via the IXPUG EasyChair website. Notifications will be sent to submitters by April 17, 2023 AoE. The page limit is 12 pages for each paper with 2 possible extra pages after the review to address the reviewer's comments. The page limit includes bibliography and appendices.

Topics of Interest are (but not limited to):

• Holistic view on performance of next-generation platforms (with emphasis on communication, I/O, and storage at scale)
• Application driven performance analysis on inter-node and intra-node HPC fabrics
• Software-defined networks in HPC environments
• Experiences with with emerging scalable storage concepts, e.g., object stores using next-generation HPC fabrics
• Performance tuning on heterogeneous platforms from multiple vendors including impact of I/O and storage
• Performance and portability using network programmable devices (DPU, IPU)
• Best practice solutions for performance tuning of communication, I/O, and storage to improve application performance at scale and any challenges.

Keywords: high-performance fabrics, data and infrastructure processing units, scalable object stores as HPC storage subsystems, heterogeneous data processing

Review Process: All submissions within the scope of the workshop will be peer-reviewed and will need to demonstrate the high quality of the results, originality and new insights, technical strength, and correctness. We apply a standard single-blind review process, i.e., the authors will be known to reviewers. The assignment of reviewers from the Program Committee will avoid conflicts of interest.

Important Dates:

• Call for Papers/Contributions: Feb 24, 2023
• Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2023
• Acceptance notification: April 17, 2023
• Camera ready presentation: May 22, 2023
• Workshop date: May 25, 2023

Committees

Organizers:

• R. Glenn Brook, Cornelis Networks
• Nalini Kumar, Intel Corporation
• David Martin, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
• Amit Ruhela, Texas Advanced Computing Center
• Thomas Steinke, Zuse Institute Berlin

Program Committee:

• R. Glenn Brook, Cornelis Networks
• Clayton Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories
• Andrey Kudryavtsev, Intel Corporation
• Nalini Kumar, Intel Corporation
• Johann Lombardi, Intel Corporation
• David Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
• Christopher Mauney, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Kelsey Prantis, Intel Corporation

Publication

Final presentations will be made accessible to download at https://www.ixpug.org/resources after the workshop.

Venue

In-person at ISC 2023, Hamburg, Germany – Hall Y4 - 2nd Floor

Registration: https://www.isc-hpc.com/ The workshop is held in conjunction with ISC 2023, Hamburg, Germany. To attend the IXPUG Workshop, you must register for the ISC 2023 Workshop Pass. In the ISC registration form, select “Second workshop on Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platforms – Scalable Infrastructures” from the drop-down menu.

Those unable to attend ISC 2023 in person may join the IXPUG Workshop via webinar. Please refer to instructions at: https://www.ixpug.org/events/isc23-ixpug-workshop

Contact

General questions should be sent to events@ixpug.org