CCL at Supercomputing 2017

Created on November 13, 2017 by Douglas Thain

2017


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We are well represented at the annual Supercomputing conference this week:
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Tim Shaffer is presenting “
Taming Metadata Storms in Parallel Filesystems with MetaFS
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“ at the Parallel Data Storage Workshop (
PDSW
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).  This paper describes a technique for accelerating metadata-intensive program loading workloads that often cause trouble in parallel filesystems.
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Kyle Sweeney is presenting “
Lightweight Container Integration into Workflow Systems: A Case Study with Singularity and Makeflow” at Workflows in Support of Large Scale Science (
WORKS
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).  This talk explains why integrating containers into workflows isn’t as simple as it first appears, and describes a variety of approaches for assembling complete applications from containers and data.
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Charles Zheng is presenting “
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Wharf
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Sharing Docker Images across Hosts from a Distributed Filesystem” at the Monday poster session.  This work in progress aims to accelerate the use of containers on HPC clusters by sharing images and metadata within a parallel filesystem. </span>


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