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The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O
| Date | Wednesday, November 14th, 5:15pm - 6:45pm |
| Venue | D173, Dallas, USA |
Abstract
The IO500 is quickly becoming the de facto benchmarking standard for HPC storage. Developed two years ago, the IO500 has released two official lists so far. A BoF highlight is the presentation of the third IO-500 list.
The general purpose of this BoF is to foster the IO500 and VI4IO communities to ensure forward progress towards the common goals of creating, sharing, and benefiting from a large corpus of shared storage data. We also serve as a repository of detailed information about production storage system architectures over time as a knowledge base for other researchers and system designers to use.
Goals of the BoF are to 1) reveal the current IO-500 list and provide highlights and insight; 2) advertise the community hub but also discuss and steer the direction of the community effort; 3) to discuss the benefit and direction of the efforts within the community.
The IO-500 benchmark consists of data and metadata benchmarks to identify performance boundaries for optimized and suboptimal applications. Together with comprehensive data from sites, supercomputers, and storage, in-depth analysis of system characteristics are tracked by the list and can be analyzed. In contrast to other lists, the IO-500 collects the execution scripts for providing means of result verification and sharing best practices for data centers.
Goals of the Virtual Institute for I/O are:
- Provide a platform for I/O researchers and enthusiasts for exchanging information
- Foster international collaboration in the field of high-performance I/O
- Track, and encourage, the deployment of large storage systems by hosting information about high-performance storage systems
Expected HPC audience are 1) I/O experts from data centers and industry, 2) researchers/engineers working on high-performance I/O for data centers, 3) domain scientists and computer scientists interested in discussing I/O issues.
The outcome of this BoF will steer the direction of the community efforts.
Agenda
We have a series of short talks followed by a discussion.
- The status of the IO-500 – Jay Lofstead
Slides - The Virtual Institute for I/O and the High-Performance Storage List – Julian Kunkel
Slides - Benefit and fun providing system details – Glenn Lockwood – Slides
- The new IO-500 list – John Bent – Slides – Updated after the BOF to add about 80 graphs of analysis
- Community & IO-500
- Discussion – Jay, Julian, John, George
