[hpc-announce] [Call for Participation] ESSA 2025: 6th Workshop on Extreme-Scale Storage and Analysis

Tue May 20 08:39:38 CDT 2025

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       ESSA 2025 : 6th Workshop on Extreme-Scale Storage and Analysis
         Held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2025 - June 4th, 2025

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We invite researchers and practitioners working on extreme-scale data systems in storage, data, and I/O to join the ESSA Workshop. In this workshop, we explore the latest developments and foster meaningful discussion with the goal of advancing research in high-performance and scalable storage infrastructures.

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** Keynote Speaker
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Scott Klasky (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

Dr. Scott A. Klasky is a distinguished scientist and the group leader for Workflow Systems in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He holds an appointment at the University of Tennessee, and Georgia Tech University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin (1994), and then moved to Syracuse University to become a senior research scientist in computer science in 1998. In 1999, Dr. Klasky later moved to the Princeton Plasma Physics laboratory to lead scientific data management and visualization. Dr. Klasky is a world expert in scientific computing, scientific data reduction, and scientific data management, co-authoring over 350 papers, and has an h-index of 53.

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** Invited Speakers
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Francieli Boito (Université de Bordeaux, France)

Francieli Zanon Boito is an Associate Professor at the Université de Bordeaux, France, where she has been a faculty member since 2019. She teaches in the Informatics department at the Collège Sciences et Technologies and conducts research at LaBRI and Inria Bordeaux within the SATANAS department, TADaaM team. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2015 from both Université Grenoble Alpes (France) and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Her research focuses on high-performance computing, with an emphasis on parallel I/O, file systems, and data access and storage.

Suren Byna (The Ohio State University, USA)

Suren Byna is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Ohio State University (OSU). He was a Senior Computer Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he is now a Visiting Faculty Scientist. He leads the Innovative Data Technologies Lab at OSU. His research interests span across many topics in scientific data management and analysis, including parallel I/O, file and data management systems, I/O libraries, file formats, and metadata management. He also leads projects in the areas of data quality, cybersecurity and trustworthiness of data, and AI readiness of data.

Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN Storage, France)

Jean-Thomas successively worked for Intel, the University of Versailles, and the French Atomic Commission (CEA). He participated in the creation of their joint laboratory on Exascale Research. At DDN, Jean-Thomas' role includes overseeing research collaborations in Europe and product management for some advanced DDN’s solutions.

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** Program (Time in CEST)
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Workshop Day: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Workshop Location: Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan, Italy
Workshop Room: Room TBD (Building 3)

09:00 - 09:05 Welcome Message

09:05 - 10:00 Keynote Talk: The Data Deluge: Overcoming the Barriers to Extreme Scale Science
    Scott Klasky (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

10:00 - 10:30 Full Paper Talk: Checkpointing Optimisation to Prepare Future Exascale Plasma Turbulence Simulations
    Méline Trochon, Julien Bigot, Virginie Grandgirard, Dorian Midou (Inria, France, CEA/MDLS, France, CEA/IRFM, France)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Invited Talk I: Improving I/O Resource Usage in HPC
    Francieli Boito (Université de Bordeaux, France)

11:30 - 12:00 Full Paper Talk: SCORPIO: A Parallel I/O library for Exascale Earth System Models
    Jayesh Krishna, Danqing Wu, Robert Jacob, Dmitry Ganyushin (Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

12:00 - 12:30 Full Paper Talk: Streamlining HDF5’s AI Workloads Benchmarking
    Dlyaver Djebarov, Radita Liem, Sarah Neuwirth, Jean Luca Bez, Suren Byna (RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, The Ohio State University, USA)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30 Invited Talk II: Data Readiness for AI – A Framework for Evaluation and Improvement
    Suren Byna (The Ohio State University, USA)

14:30 - 15:00 Invited Talk III: Data at Scale: The Case of Scientific AI
    Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN Storage, France)

15:00 - 15:25 Short Paper Talk: IOPS: I/O Performance Evaluation Suite
    Mahamat Abdraman, Francieli Boito, Luan Teylo (Inria, France)

15:25 - 15:50 Short Paper Talk: NAPEH: An Asynchronous and NUMA-Aware KV Store Based on Non-Volatile Memory Architectures
    Yili Ma, Shengquan Yin, Jing Xing, Haoquan Long, Zheng Wei, Guangming Tan, Dingwen Tao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

15:50 - 16:00 Closing Remarks

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break / End of Workshop Day II

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** Registration
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** Organization
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* Workshop Chairs:
Sarah Neuwirth, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany - Chair - neuwirth at uni-mainz.de
François Tessier, Inria, France  - Co-Chair - francois.tessier at inria.fr

* Program Chairs:
Chen Wang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Chair - wang116 at llnl.gov
Lipeng Wan, Georgia State University, USA - Co-Chair - lwan at gsu.edu

* Web & Publicity Chair:
Radita Liem, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

* Steering Committee:
Gabriel Antoniu , Inria, Rennes, France
Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Toni Cortés, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Kento Sato, RIKEN, Japan
Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Weikuan Yu, Florida State University, USA

Thanks,
Radita