January 23-25, 2023
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
If you have recently been tasked with managing HPC file systems or want to expand your knowledge about them, LCI is offering a 3-day advanced storage-focused workshop that will focus on:
- Designing HPC file systems based on analysis of current workloads
- Deploying in-depth monitoring of HPC file systems
- Troubleshooting and Benchmarking of HPC file systems
Registration is CLOSED
(Click the “Fill out new form” button to start your registration.) Registration includes daily breakfast and lunch! Note that the workshop location has limited seating. Registration will be available until that maximum capacity is reached and then will be closed.
Indiana University workshop location: Indiana Memorial Union Dogwood Room
900 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Schedule
Instructor for the LCI Advanced Workshop will be J.D. Maloney malone12@illinois.edu
January 23rd:
- 8:30 – 9:15 Introductions of Attendees/Instructor
- 9:15 – 10:30 FS Design & Procurement: Analyzing Workloads & I/O Subsystem Needs
- 10:30 – 11:00 Break
- 11:00 – 12:00 FS Design & Procurement: Stakeholder & Workflow Feedback Into I/O Subsystem Design
- 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 – 2:00 FS Design & Procurement: Matching Hardware Architectures to Meet I/O Needs
- 2:00 – 3:00 FS Design & Procurement: Matching FS Software to Meet I/O Needs
- 3:00 – 3:30 Break
- 3:30 – 4:00 FS Design & Procurement: Logistics Checklists for Storage Subsystem Procurements
- 4:00 – 5:00 FS Design & Procurement: Mock FS Design Activity in Groups
January 24th:
- 8:30 – 9:30 HPC FS Monitoring: What Should We Monitor & Why
- 9:30 – 10:30 HPC FS Monitoring: Monitoring Tools & General Best Practices for Using Them
- 10:30 – 11:00 Break
- 11:00 – 12:00 HPC FS Monitoring: Deploying In-Depth Monitoring on Spectrum Scale File Systems
- 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 – 2:00 HPC FS Monitoring: Deploying In-Depth Monitoring on Lustre File Systems
- 2:00 – 3:00 HPC FS Monitoring: Deploying In-Depth Monitoring on Other File Systems (NFS/ZFS/others)
- 3:00 – 3:30 Break
- 3:30 – 5:00 HPC FS Monitoring: Visualization Techniques & Alerting Guidelines for File System Monitoring
January 25th:
- 8:30 – 9:30 FS Troubleshooting & Benchmarking: Various Types of Benchmarks & Why We Run Them
- 9:30 – 10:30 FS Troubleshooting & Benchmarking: FS Benchmarking Best Practices
- 10:30 – 11:00 Break
- 11:00 – 12:00 FS Troubleshooting & Benchmarking: Hands-On — Running HPC FS Benchmarks
- 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 – 2:00 FS Troubleshooting & Benchmarking: FS Stability Investigation Techniques
- 2:00 – 3:00 FS Troubleshooting & Benchmarking: Help! The File System is “Slow”
- 3:00 – 3:30 Break
- 4:00 – 4:30 FS Troubleshooting & Benchmarking: Helping Users Optimize I/O (at a high-level)
- 4:00 – 5:00 Wrap Up Discussion