[Lustre-discuss] Benchmarking Working Group

[Vanderbilt, Richard]

The OpenSFS Benchmarking Workgroup aims to provide an I/O benchmark suite to satisfy the benchmarking requirements of the scalable parallel file system users and facilities. Towards this end, as a first step, the workgroup aims to characterize the I/O workloads from small- to very large-scale scalable parallel file systems deployed at various high-performance computing and parallel computing facilities and institutions. Using these gathered characteristics, the workgroup will then collect and build the required I/O benchmarks to emulate these workloads and provide required documentation about the benchmark suite.

 

The workgroup meeting will reoccur every Friday at 8:30am Pacific time. 1 hour each. The dial-in is as follows: 1(866)844-9418 id# 4088226016.

 

Also note: we will be having our first face to face meeting on Sunday April 22nd from 2:00-5:00pm at the LUG.  Details to come.

 

On Tuesday April 24 4:10-5:00pm there will be a Benchmark panel discussion moderated by Sarp Oral. Panelist will be Jeremy Filizetti (DOD), Andrew Uselton (NERSC), Eric Barton (Whamcloud), Nathan Rutman (Xyratex), Stephane Thiell (CEA), and Stephen Simms (IU).

 

If you are interested in contributing to this work group, please email Sarp Oral at ora...@ornl.gov or myself at richard.v...@netapp.com.

 

Sincerely,

 

Sarp Oral, PhD

National Center for Computational Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory ora...@ornl.gov

865-574-2173

 

Richard Vanderbilt  Co-chair

Netapp Inc.

(408)822-6016