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Register now for the Panasas SC08 VIP Breakfast Featuring LANL and the Roadrunner Supercomputer
Co-sponsored by Panasas, Inc., SICORP and Voltaire.
A File System for Petascale Computing:
Challenges and Early Experiences
Mr. James Nunez, Project Lead, Scalable I/O and File Systems
Los Alamos National Lab
Tuesday, 18 Nov 2008, 07:00 – 08:15AM
| LOCATION |
Hilton Hotel
500 East 4th Street, Salon C, 4th Floor
Austin, TX 78701 |
| AGENDA |
| 07:00 – 07:30 | Buffet breakfast is served |
| 07:15 – 07:20 | Panasas welcome remarks |
| 07:20 – 07:30 | Introduction of LANL and Roadrunner |
| 07:30 – 08:00 | LANL Speaker – Mr. James Nunez |
| 08:00 – 08:10 | Q&A and Panasas closing remarks |
| 08:10 – 08:15 | Drawing for a gift and adjourn |
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ABSTRACT
Mr. Nunez' talk will explore a variety of file system topics including the challenges of file system deployment for petascale computing environments, a review of the Panasas parallel file system and storage features that are necessary for petascale computing, and a look to the future of computing platforms at LANL.
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SPEAKER
Mr. James Nunez, Project Lead, Scalable I/O and File Systems
Los Alamos National Lab
James Nunez is the project leader for scalable I/O and file systems in the Networking and Scalable I/O Team in the High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Integration Group at Los Alamos National Lab. Mr. Nunez is concerned with evaluating and benchmarking HPC file systems, I/O middleware solutions, and understanding the I/O interface and application of new storage innovations to real science applications. He is involved in and supports all aspects of file systems and storage for use by the Laboratory, including the ASC File System Path forward contract to create the high scalable global parallel file system based on secure object device technology and the ASC Alliances with Universities to develop the first reference implementation of NFS version 4, develop middleware solutions for small unaligned writes and investigate improved scalable metadata/security. Mr. Nunez has worked in the High End Computing Interagency Working Group on coordination of interagency I/O funding.
Prior to joining Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mr. Nunez was a Research Scientist with ERIM International; a leader in cutting-edge technologies related to imaging systems, information extraction and knowledge generation and dissemination. There his main duties included software implementation and optimization of Automatic Target Cueing and Recognition algorithms.
Mr. Nunez was awarded a Master of Science in Computer Science in 1998 and a Master of Science in Mathematics in 1996 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1994 from the University of California, Irvine.
| Time |
Speaker |
Company |
| TUESDAY, November 18th |
| 10:30-10:50 |
David Wade |
General Atomics |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Peter Lillian |
Dell |
| 1:20-1:40 |
Steve Lyness |
Appro |
| 2:20-2:40 |
Barbara Hutchings |
Ansys |
| 3:20-3:40 |
Dennis Nagy |
CD-adapco |
| 4:20-4:40 |
Henry Neeman |
Univ. of Oklahoma |
| WEDNESDAY, November 19th |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Matt Jacobs |
Penguin Computing |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Steve Feldman |
CD-adapco |
| 1:20-1:40 |
JD Bridges |
SICORP |
| 2:20-2:40 |
Gene Poole |
Ansys |
| 3:20-3:40 |
Dale Brantly |
SGI |
| 4:20-4:40 |
Ryan Waite |
Microsoft |
| THURSDAY, November 20th |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Masum Mir |
Woven |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Scott Hurst |
Cluster Resources |
| 1:30-1:50 |
Gilad Shainer |
Mellanox |
| 2:20-2:40 |
Stephen Garrison |
Force 10 |
| Time |
Location |
Booth |
Speaker |
Title |
| SUNDAY, November 16th |
| 8:30 |
Tutorial |
TBD |
Brent Welch, Director, Architecture and
Marc Unangst, Software Architect |
Parallel I/O in Practice |
| TUESDAY, November 18th |
| 11:30 |
Intel |
#1609 |
Stan Posey
Director, Vertical Marketing & Business Dev |
Intel and Panasas Parallel HPC Technology: Enabling Breakthroughs in Engineering and Scientific Discovery |
| 4:30 |
QLogic |
#333 |
Don Grabski
Director, Product Management |
Panasas: Solving Real World Problems with Parallel Storage |
| 5:15 |
Dell |
#1333 |
Stan Posey
Director, Vertical Marketing & Business Dev |
Parallel I/O and Storage for Scalable HPC Applications |
| WEDNESDAY, November 19th |
| 1:15 |
Appro |
#1633 |
Don Grabski
Director, Product Management |
Panasas: Solving Real World Problems with Parallel Storage |
| 4:30 |
Exhibitor Forum |
12A |
Garth Gibson, Chief Technology Officer and Brent Welch, Director, Architecture |
Panasas & pNFS: Parallel Storage that Maximizes HPC Application Performance |
| 5:30 |
Birds of a Feather |
Ballroom F |
Garth Gibson, Chief Technology Officer |
pNFS Protocol after Final Draft and before RFC |
| THURSDAY, November 20th |
| 11:10 |
Microsoft |
#1309 |
Stan Posey
Director, Vertical Marketing & Business Dev |
Unified (Peta)Storage for your HPC Applications |
| 12:00 |
Mellanox |
#343 |
Don Grabski
Director, Product Management |
Panasas: Solving Real World Problems with Parallel Storage |
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