Salishan 2006

Theme: Data Intensive Computing

Keynote Address: HPC I/O and file Systems: Is Everyone Out to Get Us? (pdf), Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Session 1: Data Intensive Applications

• So Much Data, so Little Time, Candace Culhane, NSA
• Usability Scaling of Simulation and Visualization in Applications of Numerical Weather Prediction (pdf), Lloyd Treinish, IBM Research
• Agency and Detail in the Simulation of Very Large Networks, Christopher Barettt, Virginia Tech
• Findings and Recommendations of DSB (2005) Report on High-Performance Computing (pdf), Steven Wallach, Centerpoint Venture Partners

Session 2: Analysis Methodologies

• Machine Learning: A Scientific Method or Just a Bag of Tools? (pdf), Don Hush, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Graphs, Informatics, and HPC: The Architectural Requirements of a Pathological Application (pdf), Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories
• A Data Warehouse Approach to Analyzing All of the Data All the Time (pdf), Bill Blake, Netezza Corporation
• Other People’s Petabytes: The Challenge of Distributed Data Mining and Distributed Data Integration (pdf), Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Working Dinner/Speaker

• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Computing and Storage Architecture (pdf), Don Dossa, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Session 3: I/O Issues, Technology and Directions

• Overview of I/O Systems, Technology and Directions (pdf), Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories
• The Future of Data Storage Devices and Systems (pdf), Erik Riedel, Seagate Research
• Lightweight I/O for Scientific Applications (pdf), Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratories
• Research Directions in the I/O Technology and Infrastructure (pdf), Almadena Chtchelkanova, National Science Foundation

Session 4: File Systems

• The Google File System, Sean Quinlan, Google
• The Lustre Storage Architecture (pdf), Peter Braam, Cluster File Systems, Inc.
• Coping with Petabyte Files at Petascale Performance (pdf), Garth Gibson, Panasas, Inc.
• ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems (pdf), Fred Zlotnick, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• Challenges of Petabyte Scale Storage, Roger Haskin, IBM Research

Session 5: Archival Storage Systems

• Archival Storage at LANL: Past, Present, and Future (pdf), Danny Cook, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Yes, Virginia, There is an HPSS in Your Future (pdf), Dick Watson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Parallel Data Archive in High-End Computing Environments (pdf), David Du, University of Minnesota
• Archive Media (pdf), James Hughes, Sun Microsystems, Inc.