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

1 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

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)

RTWH Aachen: Quantum Espresso

Tuesday, 22 October

GWDG: Benchmarking + Performance Assessment

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

VDURA: Introduction PANFS

Wednesday, 23 October

DDN: Introduction to Lustre

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

DDN: IO observability with Darshan

Thursday, 24 October

Huawei: Oceanstor

Learn about using NVIDIA DALI

VAST: Introduction to the VAST Data Platform and the elbencho benchmarking tool

NVIDIA: DALI