<div dir="ltr">The
2nd HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC 2016) conjunction
with ISC High Performance 2016 on Thursday June 23th, 2016, in
Frankfurt, Germany. <br>Url: <a href="http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/events/2016/iodc" target="_blank">http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/events/2016/iodc</a><br><br>Our keynote talk will be given by Robert Ross with the topic:<br>"Studying I/O in the Data Center: Observing and Simulating I/O for Fun and Profit".<br><br>Rob
Ross from Argonne National Laboratory serves as deputy director of the
Scientific Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization Institute. He
lead and was involved in many storage projects such as PVFS2, Darshan
and CODES, and published more than 100 papers in the area of HPC-I/O.<br><br>** Workshop overview **<br>Managing
scientific data at large scale is challenging for scientists but also
for the host data center. The storage and file systems deployed within a
data center are expected to meet users' requirements for data integrity
and high performance across heterogeneous and concurrently running
applications.<br><br>With new storage technologies and layers in the
memory hierarchy, the picture is becoming murkier. To effectively manage
the data load within a data center, I/O experts must understand how
users expect to use these new storage technologies and what services
they should provide in order to enhance user productivity. We seek to
ensure a systems-level perspective is included in these discussions.<br>In
this workshop we bring together I/O experts from data centers and
application workflows to share current practices for scientific
workflows, issues and obstacles for both hardware and the software
stack, and R&D to overcome these issues.<br><br>The workshop content is build on two tracks:<br>1) research paper presentation – you'll need to submit a short paper regarding relevant research for I/O in the datacenter.<br>2) talks from I/O experts – you'll need to submit a rough outline for your talk.<br>Contributions
to both tracks are peer reviewed and require submission of the
respective research paper or idea for your presentation via Easychair:<br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpciodc2016" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpciodc2016</a><br><br>** Track: research papers **<br>Due to the request of authors, we increased the page limit from to 10 pages.<br>We accept short papers with up to 10 pages (excl. references) in LNCS format. <br>Our targeted proceedings are ISC's post-conference workshop proceedings in Springers LNCS.<br><br>Paper Deadlines<br>- Submission deadline: 28-02-2016 AoE<br>- Author notification: 23-03-2016<br>- Workshop: 23-05-2016<br>- Camera-ready papers: 23-06-2016<br><br>** Track: Talks by I/O experts **<br>The topics of interest in this track include but are not limited to:<br>- A description of the operational aspects of your data center<br>- A particular solution for certain data center workloads in production<br>If you are interested to participate, please submit a short (1/2 page) abstract of your talk together with a (very) short Bio.<br><br>Abstract Deadlines:<br>- Submission deadline: 28-02-2016 AoE<br>- Author notification: 23-03-2016<br>- Workshop: 23-05-2016<br><br>** Organization **<br>The workshop is organized by<br>- Julian Kunkel (DKRZ, Germany)<br>- Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Lab, USA)<br>- Colin McMurtrie (CSCS, Switzerland)<br><br>** Program Committee **<br>- Wolfgang Frings (Jülich Supercomputing Center)<br>- Javier Garcia Blas (University Carlos III of Madrid)<br>- Rob Ross (Argonne National Laboratory)<br>- Carlos Maltzahn (University of California, Santa Cruz)<br>- Kathryn Mohror (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)<br>- Julian Kunkel (DKRZ, Germany)<br>- Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratory)<br>- Colin McMurtrie (CSCS, Switzerland)<br><br><br>Kind regards,<br>Julian Kunkel</div>