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2024 LCI Advanced Workshop Schedule

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