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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The 9th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">  </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(PDSW’
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Work In Progress (WIP) Submissions due: September 13<sup>th</sup>, 2024, 11:59PM AoE</span></b></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FB0007"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p3" style="margin:0in;background:white"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are excited to announce the 9th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW’24), to be held in conjunction
 with SC24: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, in Atlanta, GA. PDSW’24 builds upon the rich legacy of its predecessor workshops, the Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW, 2006–2015) and the Data
 Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS, 2012–2015) workshop.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The increasing importance of efficient data storage and management continues to drive scientific productivity across traditional simulation-based HPC environments and
 emerging Cloud, AI/ML, and Big Data analysis frameworks. Challenges are compounded by the rapidly expanding volumes of experimental and observational data, the growing disparity between computational and storage hardware performance, and the rise of novel
 data-driven algorithms in machine learning. This workshop aims to advance research and development by addressing the most pressing challenges in large-scale data storage and processing.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We invite the community to contribute original research manuscripts that introduce and evaluate novel algorithms or architectures, share significant scientific case studies
 or workloads, or assess the reproducibility of previously published work. We emphasize the importance of community collaboration for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standardization, and shared tools. Authors are encouraged
 to provide comprehensive experimental environment details (software versions, benchmark configurations, etc.) to promote transparency and facilitate collaborative progress.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Scalable Architectures: Distributed
 data storage, archival, and virtualization.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 Application of innovative data processing models and algorithms for parallel computing and analysis.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 resource management, and workload studies.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 emerging hardware and computing models.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 data integrity, availability, reliability, and fault tolerance.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Programming Models and Frameworks: Big
 data solutions for data-intensive computing.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 of hybrid cloud and on-premise data processing.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Cloud-Specific Opportunities: Data storage
 and transit opportunities specific to cloud computing.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Storage System Programmability: Enhancing
 programmability in storage systems.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 compression, and reduction techniques for large-scale data.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 file systems, metadata management at scale.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 computation into the memory and storage hierarchy for in-situ and in-transit data processing.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Alternative Storage Models: Object stores,
 key-value stores, and other data storage models.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Productivity Tools: Tools for data-intensive
 computing, data mining, and knowledge discovery.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Data Movement: Managing data movement
 between compute and data-intensive components.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Cross-Cloud Data Management: Efficient
 data management across different cloud environments.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* AI-enhanced Systems: Storage system
 optimization and data analytics using machine learning.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">    </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* New Memory and Storage Systems: Innovative
 techniques and performance evaluation for new memory and storage systems.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2" style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The WIP session will showcase brief 5-minute presentations on ongoing work that may not yet be ready for a full paper submission. WIP
 papers will not be included in the proceedings. A one-page abstract is required for participation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More details are available at:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.pdsw.org/index.shtml" title="https://www.pdsw.org/index.shtml"><span style="color:#0086F0">https://www.pdsw.org/index.shtml</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Reproducibility Initiative</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Aligned with the SC24 Reproducibility Initiative (<a href="https://sc24.supercomputing.org/program/papers/reproducibility-initiative" title="https://sc24.supercomputing.org/program/papers/reproducibility-initiative"><span style="color:#0086F0">https://sc24.supercomputing.org/program/papers/reproducibility-initiative</span></a>),
 we encourage detailed and structured artifact descriptions (AD) using the SC24 format (<a href="https://github.com/hunsa/sc24-repro" title="https://github.com/hunsa/sc24-repro"><span style="color:#0086F0">https://github.com/hunsa/sc24-repro</span></a>). The
 AD should include a field for one or more links to data (zenodo, figshare, etc.) and code (Github, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.) repositories. For the artifacts that will be placed in the code repository, we encourage authors to follow the PDSW 2024 Reproducibility
 Addendum (<a href="https://www.pdsw.org/pdsw24/Addendum%20for%20the%20PDSW%202024%20Reproducibility%20Initiative.pdf" title="https://www.pdsw.org/pdsw24/Addendum%20for%20the%20PDSW%202024%20Reproducibility%20Initiative.pdf"><span style="color:#0086F0">https://www.pdsw.org/pdsw24/Addendum%20for%20the%20PDSW%202024%20Reproducibility%20Initiative.pdf</span></a>)
 on how to structure the artifact, as it will make it easier for the reviewing committee and readers of the paper in the future.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submissions website:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://submissions.supercomputing.org/" title="https://submissions.supercomputing.org/"><span style="color:#0086F0">https://submissions.supercomputing.org/</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organization team:</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">General Chair:</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bing Xie</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Microsoft, USA</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Program Co-Chairs:</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Suren Byna</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Ohio State University, USA</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Anthony Kougkas</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Reproducibility Co-Chairs:</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jean Luca Bez</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Radita Liem</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">RWTH Aachen University, Germany</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Publicity Chair:</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Qian Gong</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Web & Publications Chair:</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Joan Digney</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Carnegie Mellon University, USA</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Sincerely,</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Qian Gong</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Computer Science and Mathematics Division</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Oak Ridge National Laboratory</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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