S^3 Storage Summer School

21 Oct 2024, 04:00 → 24 Oct 2024, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

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Julian Kunkel (GWDG), Marcus Merz (GWDG)

The S^3 Storage Summer School is the preparation for the Scalable Storage Competition (SSC). Topics to be covered are, parallel file systems and file system usage, also with a special full day contribution from DDN. Additionally, we will cover Benchmarking and performance assessment, and a special contribution for NVIDIA about DALI, VAST about the VAST system, Huawei about Oceanstor, VDURA with an overview of the PANFS system, and a session about Quantum Espresso.

Participants of the SSC are required to participate. Please submit an abstract on what you would like to learn in this Summer School.

Monday 21 October

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome + The Scalable Storage Competetion

• Introduction to the Storage Summer School
• Introduction to the Scalable Storage Competition
• Description of the execution environment

Speakers: Jaromir Nemecek, Julian Kunkel (GWDG), Mr Marcus Merz

09:30 → 12:00 GWDG: Introduction to Storage tiering and Parallel File systems

This block will help you set up the environment and the access the system

Convener: Dr Kevin Lüdemann (GWDG)

13:00 → 15:00 RTWH Aachen: Quantum Espresso

Tuesday 22 October

09:00 → 12:00 GWDG: Benchmarking + Performance Assessment

We will discuss basic about Parallel File Systems and how to test them

13:00 → 15:00 VDURA: Introduction PANFS

Wednesday 23 October

09:00 → 12:00 DDN: Introduction to Lustre

We will be discussing the public tasks and work on how to implement them.

13:00 → 15:00 DDN: IO observability with Darshan

Thursday 24 October

09:00 → 12:00 Huawei: Oceanstor

Learn about using NVIDIA DALI

13:00 → 15:00 VAST: Introduction to the VAST Data Platform and the elbencho benchmarking tool

15:00 → 17:00 NVIDIA: DALI