Instructor for the LCI Advanced Workshop will be J.D. Maloney malone12@illinois.edu
(Tentative schedule: Subject to change on instructor discretion)
August 6th:
– 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
August 7th:
– 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
August 8th:
– 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