SC24 IXPUG Workshop: Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platforms – Scalable Infrastructures Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta, GA, United States, November 18, 2024

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SC24 IXPUG Workshop: Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platforms – Scalable Infrastructures

Deadline for submissions (via Linklings): 12am (AoE) Aug 24, 2024 (updated)

(Select "Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platform" on SC2024 submission link https://submissions.supercomputing.org/)

Workshop date/time: Monday, November 18, 9am-5:30pm

Location: In-person at SC24, Atlanta, Georgia

Event Description:

The workshop is a continuation of our effort to bring together HPC users, researchers, and developers from across the globe to share experiences around topics most pertinent to the future of large heterogeneous HPC systems.

Next-generation HPC platforms have to deal with increasing heterogeneity in their subsystems. These subsystems include internal high-speed fabrics for inter-node communication; storage system integrated with programmable data processing units (DPUs) and infrastructure processing units (IPUs) to support software-defined networks; traditional storage infrastructures with global parallel POSIX-based filesystems complemented with scalable object stores; and heterogeneous compute nodes configured with a diverse spectrum of CPUs and accelerators (e.g., GPU, FPGA, AI processors) having complex intra-node communication.

The workshop will pursue multiple objectives, including: (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 network fabrics, (3) present experiences with emerging storage concepts like object stores and all-flash storage, (4) share experiences with performance tuning on heterogeneous platforms from multiple vendors, and (5) share best practices for application programming with complex communication, I/O, and storage at scale.

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 SC 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.

Workshop Format:

Full-day workshop. The workshop program will feature two invited talks from Industry as well as academia, several technical talks, and a few shorter ’lightning talks’ to feature late-breaking work in this area.

Submission Guidelines

Call for Submissions:

Submissions are due 12am (AoE) Aug 24, 2024 (updated). The workshop will use SC24-provided software (Linklings) for the review processes.

• Camera ready papers will need to be submitted on Linklings no later than the 15th of September.
• Accepted papers must meet the page count limitations per ACM/IEEE: Lower limit of 5 pages, including references. No upper limit.
• Camera ready papers are required to be formatted the same as the main conference papers.
• IEEE conference proceedings, two-column, US letter.
• IEEE will be providing a unique copyright submission site, and access to PDF eXpress to validate final pdfs.
• Additional guidelines, including the copyright notice for the camera-ready, will be provided at a later time.
• For more details and templates see: https://sc24.supercomputing.org/program/papers/SC

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 with various HPC fabrics
• Software-defined networks in HPC environments
• Experiences 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 application programming with complex communication, I/O, and storage at scale

Keywords: High-performance fabrics, data and infrastructure processing units, scalable object stores as HPC storage subsystems, heterogeneous data processing on accelerators, holistic system view on scalable HPC infrastructures

Review Process: All submissions within the scope of the workshop will be peer-reviewed and will need to demonstrate high quality results, originality and new insights, technical strength, and correctness. We will 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:

• Deadline for submissions via Linklings: August 16, 2024 12am (AoE) Aug 24, 2024 (updated)
• Acceptance notification: September 6, 2024
• Camera ready presentation: September 27, 2024
• Workshop date: November 18, 9am-5:30pm

Committees

Organizers:

• Glenn Brook, Cornelis Networks
• Steffen Christgau, Zuse Institute Berlin
• Clayton Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories
• Nalini Kumar, Intel Corporation
• Hatem Ltaief, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
• David Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
• Christopher Mauney, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Amit Ruhela, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

Program Committee:

• Aksel Alpay, Heidelberg University
• Glenn Brook, Cornelis Networks
• Steffen Christgau, Zuse Institute Berlin
• Toshihiro Hanawa, The University of Tokyo
• Clayton Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories
• Nalini Kumar, Intel Corporation
• James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Hatem Ltaief, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
• David Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
• Christopher Mauney, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Amit Ruhela, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

Venue

The workshop is held in-person in conjunction with SC24 at Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia. To attend the IXPUG Workshop, you must register for the SC24 Workshop Pass. SC24 Registration opens July 10.

Contact

Please contact events@ixpug.org with any general questions.