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Workshop Dates
by Ross, Robert B. 25 May '18

25 May '18

Hi all, Thanks for participating in the poll. After some discussion with Lucy, we want to make this happen by September to avoid some scheduling headaches later in the year. With that in mind, we're going to shoot for either September 18-19 or 19-20. ORISE is looking at options. Please hold those three days for now, and think about alternates if you don't think you can make it work. Thanks! Happy holiday! Rob

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Revisiting workshop dates (was Re: SSIO 2018 Workshop Planning)
by Ross, Robert B. 16 May '18

16 May '18

Hi all, In case it wasn't clear, there's basically no way we're going to be able to do a workshop the first week of August, so please feel free to release those dates for other things. Here's a new poll looking for a two-day option for a workshop in late August to early October. Recall that we're likely to be in DC, that this doesn't include travel days: https://doodle.com/poll/v7gzs8pxuk3yinga Thanks! I'll pull a date for our summit out of the other poll soon, so please do vote if you haven't already. Rob On Apr 9, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Thanks for taking the time to fill out the polls. While we don't have the go-ahead for the virtual summer or workshop yet, let's hold the following dates: - May 9, 10:00am - 4:30pm central for a virtual summit (Blue Jeans, contact info TBD) - August 1-2 for a tentative workshop (probably in DC/MD) Thanks! Rob On Mar 12, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks to Gary and Kathryn for filling out the Doodle polls (and Brad for getting one out of two?). Please fill out the Doodle polls when you can. -- Rob On Mar 8, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Scott asked a good question that I will summarize as "what is going on?". Here's what I know: Virtual Summit. Lucy has asked for permission to have our virtual summit, back on the 21st. I will double-check with her on status of that request. Meanwhile we should all gather our thoughts for the summit: - Think about what you think the big issues are in SSIO research for enabling DOE science, talk with your team and colleagues. - Fill out this poll; we're optimistic that we will have permission to do this soon: https://doodle.com/poll/mvfxb8fcqucimtim Scope. We've been asked to think about the data and learning applications in addition to traditional simulation. I don't think this is a surprise, but it does mean that we need to think about those communities as we think about who to include in the discussion/workshop and what to have in our initial report. Organizers. Gary has asked to take a step back but is happy to chime in as needed. Here's our revised team: - Brad Settlemyer (LANL) - Scott Klasky (ORNL) - Glenn Lockwood (LBNL) - Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) - Lee Ward (SNL) I think everyone probably knows Brad. I'm sure he'll do a great job. Gary will remain on the mailing list, too. Meeting Dates. Lucy and I have chatted on possible dates, and we want to get some dates on the calendar. We're looking for two days in July/August. Here's a short set of dates that work for me and Lucy; we're hoping to get lucky and get a hit. Note that we didn't include Mon. or Fri. in these so people can travel during the week: - https://doodle.com/poll/nw4xsqpx2agd3dhh Attendees. We should start thinking about attendees. I've attached the list of people from the SSIO workshop back in late 2014 as a starting point. Can someone volunteer to create a Google spreadsheet that we could use for organizing possible participants. Note that we don't have permission to have the meeting at this point, so we're really just discussing who we think key thinkers are in the area. I'm also attaching the EH and ML pre-workshop documents as examples of the kind of report we need to prepare. Thanks, Rob --- On Mar 1, 2018, at 4:17 PM, Ward, Lee <lee(a)SANDIA.GOV<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Rob tasked me with trying to kick this off. I had something different in mind but I suspect a call is a better idea. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2018, at 2:34 PM, Klasky, Scott A. <klasky(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Rob, Has there been a doodle poll for this? Scott From: ssio-2018 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross, Robert B. Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 1:18 PM To: ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ssio-2018] SSIO 2018 Workshop Planning Forgot the attachment, of course. -- Rob On Jan 11, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I've chatted with all of you previously about this, but I've been lax in getting moving. Lucy has asked me to organize a workshop to help define priority research directions for scalable storage and I/O (SSIO), ideally leading to a call for proposals some time in 2018. Additionally, there is some interest from Almadena on the NSF side to restart an inter-agency activity in this space. We will be the organizers that drive the ASCR process forward. We'll see also how things develop on the inter-agency front and what role we might play in that process. Our goal is to organize our thoughts about future research directions, produce an initial document capturing that thinking and describing state of the art, plan and hold a workshop to identify a set of priority research directions, and produce a final workshop report capturing this information. My initial plan is based off the experiences from the old HEC-FSIO process, the more recent 2014 ASCR SSIO workshop (for which there is a 2015 report), and the most recent Extreme Heterogeneity workshop planning (for which we will have the workshop soon). All of this is up for discussion/negotiation. Summary and action items. - Think about what you think the big issues are in SSIO research for enabling DOE science, talk with your team and colleagues. - Start putting together the "virtual" summit materials. - Look for the Doodle poll for a summit date. - Look for a Doodle poll for a time we could regularly meet to discuss progress. Details follow. Thanks in advance for your help in making this a success! Rob --- Organizers. Here's our team: - Gary Grider (LANL) - Scott Klasky (ORNL) - Glenn Lockwood (LBNL) - Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) - Lee Ward (SNL) Lucy Nowell is our ASCR contact, and I expect that Laura Biven will be included and possibly take over as contact before we are done. We have a mailing list: ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> for discussion. You have been added to the list. Please let me know ASAP if for some reason you cannot help. Topical areas and initial discussion. Five focus areas were discussed for further investigation at the prior workshop. - HW/SW architectures - Metadata, name spaces, and provenance - Supporting science data - Integrating with external services - Understanding SSIO systems I propose that we do a "virtual" summit (i.e., videoconference) for 3/4th of a day, rather than flying somewhere for a day to meet in person. Each organizer would present their view on challenges as relate to mission and discuss if/how they think we should adjust the topical areas in response to changes since 2015. I think of these as 20 minute presentations that are devoid of our own research specifics/propaganda and focus on these big picture items. From this we would select a set of topical areas used to organize the factual status document (see below). Factual status document. We are modeling our process after the BES "basic research needs" approach (see attachment), with adaptations to the scope of the area and ASCR needs. This process includes the generation of a factual status document (FSD) prior to the workshop. There is a separate group working down this path for an Extreme Heterogeneity FSD and workshop, too. The FSD can be thought of as the background sections of the final workshop document, and that's how we will approach it. With this in mind, we will organize the document around our initial guesses at topical areas, understanding that the topical areas may have to be adjusted in the final report as a result of discussion. The goal would be to complete the following for the FSD: - Introduction - Science Challenges - Technology Challenges - Knowledge Gaps -- what we need to know that we don't know - Research Needs - Topic 1 - Definition/summary of area - Current status - Topic 2 ... - Appendix: References This is likely to be a 50 page document. This document would be partitioned into sections to be managed by individual organizers. Rather than requesting white papers from potential attendees, organizers would invite experts in respective areas to participate in the development of requisite sections. It might be easiest to develop this document using an online system such as Google Docs, understanding that eventually it would be turned into a Word document and finally into a PDF for publication as the workshop report. Position papers. In the Extreme Heterogeneity planning, we asked for position papers. We got over 100 of them. Parsing them has been a real challenge for the organizers. We should think about what approach we might employ for gathering input from the community prior to the workshop and what we would do with that material prior to the workshop vs. incorporating into the final report. Workshop. We will shoot for around 60 attendees, maybe 30/20/10 lab/university/industry. This helps keep the justification and planning fairly simple. We would plan for a 1.75-day workshop to facilitate covering five topical areas as separate, single-track discussions. If for some reason we end up needing only 1.5 days for the meeting proper, this would leave more time for the organizers to meet and discuss report completion. We will (mostly) assume that attendees have read the FSD prior to arrival at the meeting. Never the less, we will spend 1/2 day bringing the attendees up to speed, focusing on the background material from the FSD. This is similar to the opening plenary session portion of the BES workshop structure. The remainder of the meeting could follow the model from the 2014 SSIO meeting: 90-minute moderated discussion sessions, with notes captured live in PPT. With 1.75 days we can accommodate 5 total discussion topics. We will place a topic of broad interest last to encourage attendees to participate for the full meeting. These sessions will identify current status in the area, its CS challenges, its opportunities, and its research needs, reflecting the breakout session portion of the BES workshop structure. Because the meeting is single track, there is no need for outbrief sessions (i.e., the participants will have been present for all discussions). Report. The final report will be generated by augmenting the FSD with material summarizing the outcomes of the workshop. We will target a 75-100 page document (the 2015 report was approximately 90 pages). The outline for the report will look something like this: - Executive Summary - Introduction - Science Challenges - Technology Challenges - Knowledge Gaps (need to understand what this typically includes) - Research Needs - Topic 1 - Definition/summary of area - Current status - CS challenges and opportunities - Priority research directions (3-5) - Topic 2 ... - Priority research directions _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 <2018-01-15-eh-pre-workshop-document.pdf><ml-pre-workshop-doc-20180124.pdf>

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Re: [Ssio-2018] SSIO 2018 Workshop Planning
by Ross, Robert B. 14 May '18

14 May '18

Hi all, Lucy has gotten permission for us to have our "virtual summit" and get moving on a workshop! Here's a poll for dates in June/July to get together over Blue Jeans for the day (10:00-4:30 central) and work out a more specific workshop plan and set of topics: https://doodle.com/poll/dfsgfcrgmzun6bmv A second poll will follow to try to lock down a possible workshop date. Thanks for your patience. Rob On May 2, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Lucy updated me. We're not going to be able to do the summit on May 9th, so you all can release that date. I'll put together a Doodle poll to look for another time in the near future. -- Rob On Apr 30, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Glenn Lockwood <glock(a)lbl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Has there been any movement on the virtual summit tentatively scheduled for next week? Glenn On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Thanks for taking the time to fill out the polls. While we don't have the go-ahead for the virtual summer or workshop yet, let's hold the following dates: - May 9, 10:00am - 4:30pm central for a virtual summit (Blue Jeans, contact info TBD) - August 1-2 for a tentative workshop (probably in DC/MD) Thanks! Rob On Mar 12, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks to Gary and Kathryn for filling out the Doodle polls (and Brad for getting one out of two?). Please fill out the Doodle polls when you can. -- Rob On Mar 8, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Scott asked a good question that I will summarize as "what is going on?". Here's what I know: Virtual Summit. Lucy has asked for permission to have our virtual summit, back on the 21st. I will double-check with her on status of that request. Meanwhile we should all gather our thoughts for the summit: - Think about what you think the big issues are in SSIO research for enabling DOE science, talk with your team and colleagues. - Fill out this poll; we're optimistic that we will have permission to do this soon: https://doodle.com/poll/mvfxb8fcqucimtim Scope. We've been asked to think about the data and learning applications in addition to traditional simulation. I don't think this is a surprise, but it does mean that we need to think about those communities as we think about who to include in the discussion/workshop and what to have in our initial report. Organizers. Gary has asked to take a step back but is happy to chime in as needed. Here's our revised team: - Brad Settlemyer (LANL) - Scott Klasky (ORNL) - Glenn Lockwood (LBNL) - Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) - Lee Ward (SNL) I think everyone probably knows Brad. I'm sure he'll do a great job. Gary will remain on the mailing list, too. Meeting Dates. Lucy and I have chatted on possible dates, and we want to get some dates on the calendar. We're looking for two days in July/August. Here's a short set of dates that work for me and Lucy; we're hoping to get lucky and get a hit. Note that we didn't include Mon. or Fri. in these so people can travel during the week: - https://doodle.com/poll/nw4xsqpx2agd3dhh Attendees. We should start thinking about attendees. I've attached the list of people from the SSIO workshop back in late 2014 as a starting point. Can someone volunteer to create a Google spreadsheet that we could use for organizing possible participants. Note that we don't have permission to have the meeting at this point, so we're really just discussing who we think key thinkers are in the area. I'm also attaching the EH and ML pre-workshop documents as examples of the kind of report we need to prepare. Thanks, Rob --- On Mar 1, 2018, at 4:17 PM, Ward, Lee <lee(a)SANDIA.GOV<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Rob tasked me with trying to kick this off. I had something different in mind but I suspect a call is a better idea. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2018, at 2:34 PM, Klasky, Scott A. <klasky(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Rob, Has there been a doodle poll for this? Scott From: ssio-2018 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross, Robert B. Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 1:18 PM To: ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ssio-2018] SSIO 2018 Workshop Planning Forgot the attachment, of course. -- Rob On Jan 11, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I've chatted with all of you previously about this, but I've been lax in getting moving. Lucy has asked me to organize a workshop to help define priority research directions for scalable storage and I/O (SSIO), ideally leading to a call for proposals some time in 2018. Additionally, there is some interest from Almadena on the NSF side to restart an inter-agency activity in this space. We will be the organizers that drive the ASCR process forward. We'll see also how things develop on the inter-agency front and what role we might play in that process. Our goal is to organize our thoughts about future research directions, produce an initial document capturing that thinking and describing state of the art, plan and hold a workshop to identify a set of priority research directions, and produce a final workshop report capturing this information. My initial plan is based off the experiences from the old HEC-FSIO process, the more recent 2014 ASCR SSIO workshop (for which there is a 2015 report), and the most recent Extreme Heterogeneity workshop planning (for which we will have the workshop soon). All of this is up for discussion/negotiation. Summary and action items. - Think about what you think the big issues are in SSIO research for enabling DOE science, talk with your team and colleagues. - Start putting together the "virtual" summit materials. - Look for the Doodle poll for a summit date. - Look for a Doodle poll for a time we could regularly meet to discuss progress. Details follow. Thanks in advance for your help in making this a success! Rob --- Organizers. Here's our team: - Gary Grider (LANL) - Scott Klasky (ORNL) - Glenn Lockwood (LBNL) - Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) - Lee Ward (SNL) Lucy Nowell is our ASCR contact, and I expect that Laura Biven will be included and possibly take over as contact before we are done. We have a mailing list: ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> for discussion. You have been added to the list. Please let me know ASAP if for some reason you cannot help. Topical areas and initial discussion. Five focus areas were discussed for further investigation at the prior workshop. - HW/SW architectures - Metadata, name spaces, and provenance - Supporting science data - Integrating with external services - Understanding SSIO systems I propose that we do a "virtual" summit (i.e., videoconference) for 3/4th of a day, rather than flying somewhere for a day to meet in person. Each organizer would present their view on challenges as relate to mission and discuss if/how they think we should adjust the topical areas in response to changes since 2015. I think of these as 20 minute presentations that are devoid of our own research specifics/propaganda and focus on these big picture items. From this we would select a set of topical areas used to organize the factual status document (see below). Factual status document. We are modeling our process after the BES "basic research needs" approach (see attachment), with adaptations to the scope of the area and ASCR needs. This process includes the generation of a factual status document (FSD) prior to the workshop. There is a separate group working down this path for an Extreme Heterogeneity FSD and workshop, too. The FSD can be thought of as the background sections of the final workshop document, and that's how we will approach it. With this in mind, we will organize the document around our initial guesses at topical areas, understanding that the topical areas may have to be adjusted in the final report as a result of discussion. The goal would be to complete the following for the FSD: - Introduction - Science Challenges - Technology Challenges - Knowledge Gaps -- what we need to know that we don't know - Research Needs - Topic 1 - Definition/summary of area - Current status - Topic 2 ... - Appendix: References This is likely to be a 50 page document. This document would be partitioned into sections to be managed by individual organizers. Rather than requesting white papers from potential attendees, organizers would invite experts in respective areas to participate in the development of requisite sections. It might be easiest to develop this document using an online system such as Google Docs, understanding that eventually it would be turned into a Word document and finally into a PDF for publication as the workshop report. Position papers. In the Extreme Heterogeneity planning, we asked for position papers. We got over 100 of them. Parsing them has been a real challenge for the organizers. We should think about what approach we might employ for gathering input from the community prior to the workshop and what we would do with that material prior to the workshop vs. incorporating into the final report. Workshop. We will shoot for around 60 attendees, maybe 30/20/10 lab/university/industry. This helps keep the justification and planning fairly simple. We would plan for a 1.75-day workshop to facilitate covering five topical areas as separate, single-track discussions. If for some reason we end up needing only 1.5 days for the meeting proper, this would leave more time for the organizers to meet and discuss report completion. We will (mostly) assume that attendees have read the FSD prior to arrival at the meeting. Never the less, we will spend 1/2 day bringing the attendees up to speed, focusing on the background material from the FSD. This is similar to the opening plenary session portion of the BES workshop structure. The remainder of the meeting could follow the model from the 2014 SSIO meeting: 90-minute moderated discussion sessions, with notes captured live in PPT. With 1.75 days we can accommodate 5 total discussion topics. We will place a topic of broad interest last to encourage attendees to participate for the full meeting. These sessions will identify current status in the area, its CS challenges, its opportunities, and its research needs, reflecting the breakout session portion of the BES workshop structure. Because the meeting is single track, there is no need for outbrief sessions (i.e., the participants will have been present for all discussions). Report. The final report will be generated by augmenting the FSD with material summarizing the outcomes of the workshop. We will target a 75-100 page document (the 2015 report was approximately 90 pages). The outline for the report will look something like this: - Executive Summary - Introduction - Science Challenges - Technology Challenges - Knowledge Gaps (need to understand what this typically includes) - Research Needs - Topic 1 - Definition/summary of area - Current status - CS challenges and opportunities - Priority research directions (3-5) - Topic 2 ... - Priority research directions _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 <2018-01-15-eh-pre-workshop-document.pdf><ml-pre-workshop-doc-20180124.pdf> _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018

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Re: [Ssio-2018] SSIO 2018 Workshop Planning
by Ross, Robert B. 02 May '18

02 May '18

Lucy updated me. We're not going to be able to do the summit on May 9th, so you all can release that date. I'll put together a Doodle poll to look for another time in the near future. -- Rob On Apr 30, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Glenn Lockwood <glock(a)lbl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Has there been any movement on the virtual summit tentatively scheduled for next week? Glenn On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Thanks for taking the time to fill out the polls. While we don't have the go-ahead for the virtual summer or workshop yet, let's hold the following dates: - May 9, 10:00am - 4:30pm central for a virtual summit (Blue Jeans, contact info TBD) - August 1-2 for a tentative workshop (probably in DC/MD) Thanks! Rob On Mar 12, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks to Gary and Kathryn for filling out the Doodle polls (and Brad for getting one out of two?). Please fill out the Doodle polls when you can. -- Rob On Mar 8, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Scott asked a good question that I will summarize as "what is going on?". Here's what I know: Virtual Summit. Lucy has asked for permission to have our virtual summit, back on the 21st. I will double-check with her on status of that request. Meanwhile we should all gather our thoughts for the summit: - Think about what you think the big issues are in SSIO research for enabling DOE science, talk with your team and colleagues. - Fill out this poll; we're optimistic that we will have permission to do this soon: https://doodle.com/poll/mvfxb8fcqucimtim Scope. We've been asked to think about the data and learning applications in addition to traditional simulation. I don't think this is a surprise, but it does mean that we need to think about those communities as we think about who to include in the discussion/workshop and what to have in our initial report. Organizers. Gary has asked to take a step back but is happy to chime in as needed. Here's our revised team: - Brad Settlemyer (LANL) - Scott Klasky (ORNL) - Glenn Lockwood (LBNL) - Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) - Lee Ward (SNL) I think everyone probably knows Brad. I'm sure he'll do a great job. Gary will remain on the mailing list, too. Meeting Dates. Lucy and I have chatted on possible dates, and we want to get some dates on the calendar. We're looking for two days in July/August. Here's a short set of dates that work for me and Lucy; we're hoping to get lucky and get a hit. Note that we didn't include Mon. or Fri. in these so people can travel during the week: - https://doodle.com/poll/nw4xsqpx2agd3dhh Attendees. We should start thinking about attendees. I've attached the list of people from the SSIO workshop back in late 2014 as a starting point. Can someone volunteer to create a Google spreadsheet that we could use for organizing possible participants. Note that we don't have permission to have the meeting at this point, so we're really just discussing who we think key thinkers are in the area. I'm also attaching the EH and ML pre-workshop documents as examples of the kind of report we need to prepare. Thanks, Rob --- On Mar 1, 2018, at 4:17 PM, Ward, Lee <lee(a)SANDIA.GOV<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Rob tasked me with trying to kick this off. I had something different in mind but I suspect a call is a better idea. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2018, at 2:34 PM, Klasky, Scott A. <klasky(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Rob, Has there been a doodle poll for this? Scott From: ssio-2018 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross, Robert B. Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 1:18 PM To: ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ssio-2018] SSIO 2018 Workshop Planning Forgot the attachment, of course. -- Rob On Jan 11, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I've chatted with all of you previously about this, but I've been lax in getting moving. Lucy has asked me to organize a workshop to help define priority research directions for scalable storage and I/O (SSIO), ideally leading to a call for proposals some time in 2018. Additionally, there is some interest from Almadena on the NSF side to restart an inter-agency activity in this space. We will be the organizers that drive the ASCR process forward. We'll see also how things develop on the inter-agency front and what role we might play in that process. Our goal is to organize our thoughts about future research directions, produce an initial document capturing that thinking and describing state of the art, plan and hold a workshop to identify a set of priority research directions, and produce a final workshop report capturing this information. My initial plan is based off the experiences from the old HEC-FSIO process, the more recent 2014 ASCR SSIO workshop (for which there is a 2015 report), and the most recent Extreme Heterogeneity workshop planning (for which we will have the workshop soon). All of this is up for discussion/negotiation. Summary and action items. - Think about what you think the big issues are in SSIO research for enabling DOE science, talk with your team and colleagues. - Start putting together the "virtual" summit materials. - Look for the Doodle poll for a summit date. - Look for a Doodle poll for a time we could regularly meet to discuss progress. Details follow. Thanks in advance for your help in making this a success! Rob --- Organizers. Here's our team: - Gary Grider (LANL) - Scott Klasky (ORNL) - Glenn Lockwood (LBNL) - Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) - Lee Ward (SNL) Lucy Nowell is our ASCR contact, and I expect that Laura Biven will be included and possibly take over as contact before we are done. We have a mailing list: ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> for discussion. You have been added to the list. Please let me know ASAP if for some reason you cannot help. Topical areas and initial discussion. Five focus areas were discussed for further investigation at the prior workshop. - HW/SW architectures - Metadata, name spaces, and provenance - Supporting science data - Integrating with external services - Understanding SSIO systems I propose that we do a "virtual" summit (i.e., videoconference) for 3/4th of a day, rather than flying somewhere for a day to meet in person. Each organizer would present their view on challenges as relate to mission and discuss if/how they think we should adjust the topical areas in response to changes since 2015. I think of these as 20 minute presentations that are devoid of our own research specifics/propaganda and focus on these big picture items. From this we would select a set of topical areas used to organize the factual status document (see below). Factual status document. We are modeling our process after the BES "basic research needs" approach (see attachment), with adaptations to the scope of the area and ASCR needs. This process includes the generation of a factual status document (FSD) prior to the workshop. There is a separate group working down this path for an Extreme Heterogeneity FSD and workshop, too. The FSD can be thought of as the background sections of the final workshop document, and that's how we will approach it. With this in mind, we will organize the document around our initial guesses at topical areas, understanding that the topical areas may have to be adjusted in the final report as a result of discussion. The goal would be to complete the following for the FSD: - Introduction - Science Challenges - Technology Challenges - Knowledge Gaps -- what we need to know that we don't know - Research Needs - Topic 1 - Definition/summary of area - Current status - Topic 2 ... - Appendix: References This is likely to be a 50 page document. This document would be partitioned into sections to be managed by individual organizers. Rather than requesting white papers from potential attendees, organizers would invite experts in respective areas to participate in the development of requisite sections. It might be easiest to develop this document using an online system such as Google Docs, understanding that eventually it would be turned into a Word document and finally into a PDF for publication as the workshop report. Position papers. In the Extreme Heterogeneity planning, we asked for position papers. We got over 100 of them. Parsing them has been a real challenge for the organizers. We should think about what approach we might employ for gathering input from the community prior to the workshop and what we would do with that material prior to the workshop vs. incorporating into the final report. Workshop. We will shoot for around 60 attendees, maybe 30/20/10 lab/university/industry. This helps keep the justification and planning fairly simple. We would plan for a 1.75-day workshop to facilitate covering five topical areas as separate, single-track discussions. If for some reason we end up needing only 1.5 days for the meeting proper, this would leave more time for the organizers to meet and discuss report completion. We will (mostly) assume that attendees have read the FSD prior to arrival at the meeting. Never the less, we will spend 1/2 day bringing the attendees up to speed, focusing on the background material from the FSD. This is similar to the opening plenary session portion of the BES workshop structure. The remainder of the meeting could follow the model from the 2014 SSIO meeting: 90-minute moderated discussion sessions, with notes captured live in PPT. With 1.75 days we can accommodate 5 total discussion topics. We will place a topic of broad interest last to encourage attendees to participate for the full meeting. These sessions will identify current status in the area, its CS challenges, its opportunities, and its research needs, reflecting the breakout session portion of the BES workshop structure. Because the meeting is single track, there is no need for outbrief sessions (i.e., the participants will have been present for all discussions). Report. The final report will be generated by augmenting the FSD with material summarizing the outcomes of the workshop. We will target a 75-100 page document (the 2015 report was approximately 90 pages). The outline for the report will look something like this: - Executive Summary - Introduction - Science Challenges - Technology Challenges - Knowledge Gaps (need to understand what this typically includes) - Research Needs - Topic 1 - Definition/summary of area - Current status - CS challenges and opportunities - Priority research directions (3-5) - Topic 2 ... - Priority research directions _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 <2018-01-15-eh-pre-workshop-document.pdf><ml-pre-workshop-doc-20180124.pdf> _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018

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Re: [Ssio-2018] SSIO 2018 Workshop Planning
by Ross, Robert B. 01 May '18

01 May '18

We're waiting on completion of the facility visits. Last I check with Lucy last week, we still weren't sure if she would be able to get to ORNL before our May 9 date. So, let's be optimistic and continue to hold the date! -- Rob On Apr 30, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Glenn Lockwood <glock(a)lbl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Has there been any movement on the virtual summit tentatively scheduled for next week? Glenn On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Thanks for taking the time to fill out the polls. While we don't have the go-ahead for the virtual summer or workshop yet, let's hold the following dates: - May 9, 10:00am - 4:30pm central for a virtual summit (Blue Jeans, contact info TBD) - August 1-2 for a tentative workshop (probably in DC/MD) Thanks! Rob On Mar 12, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks to Gary and Kathryn for filling out the Doodle polls (and Brad for getting one out of two?). Please fill out the Doodle polls when you can. -- Rob On Mar 8, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Scott asked a good question that I will summarize as "what is going on?". Here's what I know: Virtual Summit. Lucy has asked for permission to have our virtual summit, back on the 21st. I will double-check with her on status of that request. Meanwhile we should all gather our thoughts for the summit: - Think about what you think the big issues are in SSIO research for enabling DOE science, talk with your team and colleagues. - Fill out this poll; we're optimistic that we will have permission to do this soon: https://doodle.com/poll/mvfxb8fcqucimtim Scope. We've been asked to think about the data and learning applications in addition to traditional simulation. I don't think this is a surprise, but it does mean that we need to think about those communities as we think about who to include in the discussion/workshop and what to have in our initial report. Organizers. Gary has asked to take a step back but is happy to chime in as needed. Here's our revised team: - Brad Settlemyer (LANL) - Scott Klasky (ORNL) - Glenn Lockwood (LBNL) - Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) - Lee Ward (SNL) I think everyone probably knows Brad. I'm sure he'll do a great job. Gary will remain on the mailing list, too. Meeting Dates. Lucy and I have chatted on possible dates, and we want to get some dates on the calendar. We're looking for two days in July/August. Here's a short set of dates that work for me and Lucy; we're hoping to get lucky and get a hit. Note that we didn't include Mon. or Fri. in these so people can travel during the week: - https://doodle.com/poll/nw4xsqpx2agd3dhh Attendees. We should start thinking about attendees. I've attached the list of people from the SSIO workshop back in late 2014 as a starting point. Can someone volunteer to create a Google spreadsheet that we could use for organizing possible participants. Note that we don't have permission to have the meeting at this point, so we're really just discussing who we think key thinkers are in the area. I'm also attaching the EH and ML pre-workshop documents as examples of the kind of report we need to prepare. Thanks, Rob --- On Mar 1, 2018, at 4:17 PM, Ward, Lee <lee(a)SANDIA.GOV<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Rob tasked me with trying to kick this off. I had something different in mind but I suspect a call is a better idea. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2018, at 2:34 PM, Klasky, Scott A. <klasky(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Rob, Has there been a doodle poll for this? Scott From: ssio-2018 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross, Robert B. Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 1:18 PM To: ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ssio-2018] SSIO 2018 Workshop Planning Forgot the attachment, of course. -- Rob On Jan 11, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Ross, Robert B. <rross(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I've chatted with all of you previously about this, but I've been lax in getting moving. Lucy has asked me to organize a workshop to help define priority research directions for scalable storage and I/O (SSIO), ideally leading to a call for proposals some time in 2018. Additionally, there is some interest from Almadena on the NSF side to restart an inter-agency activity in this space. We will be the organizers that drive the ASCR process forward. We'll see also how things develop on the inter-agency front and what role we might play in that process. Our goal is to organize our thoughts about future research directions, produce an initial document capturing that thinking and describing state of the art, plan and hold a workshop to identify a set of priority research directions, and produce a final workshop report capturing this information. My initial plan is based off the experiences from the old HEC-FSIO process, the more recent 2014 ASCR SSIO workshop (for which there is a 2015 report), and the most recent Extreme Heterogeneity workshop planning (for which we will have the workshop soon). All of this is up for discussion/negotiation. Summary and action items. - Think about what you think the big issues are in SSIO research for enabling DOE science, talk with your team and colleagues. - Start putting together the "virtual" summit materials. - Look for the Doodle poll for a summit date. - Look for a Doodle poll for a time we could regularly meet to discuss progress. Details follow. Thanks in advance for your help in making this a success! Rob --- Organizers. Here's our team: - Gary Grider (LANL) - Scott Klasky (ORNL) - Glenn Lockwood (LBNL) - Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) - Lee Ward (SNL) Lucy Nowell is our ASCR contact, and I expect that Laura Biven will be included and possibly take over as contact before we are done. We have a mailing list: ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> for discussion. You have been added to the list. Please let me know ASAP if for some reason you cannot help. Topical areas and initial discussion. Five focus areas were discussed for further investigation at the prior workshop. - HW/SW architectures - Metadata, name spaces, and provenance - Supporting science data - Integrating with external services - Understanding SSIO systems I propose that we do a "virtual" summit (i.e., videoconference) for 3/4th of a day, rather than flying somewhere for a day to meet in person. Each organizer would present their view on challenges as relate to mission and discuss if/how they think we should adjust the topical areas in response to changes since 2015. I think of these as 20 minute presentations that are devoid of our own research specifics/propaganda and focus on these big picture items. From this we would select a set of topical areas used to organize the factual status document (see below). Factual status document. We are modeling our process after the BES "basic research needs" approach (see attachment), with adaptations to the scope of the area and ASCR needs. This process includes the generation of a factual status document (FSD) prior to the workshop. There is a separate group working down this path for an Extreme Heterogeneity FSD and workshop, too. The FSD can be thought of as the background sections of the final workshop document, and that's how we will approach it. With this in mind, we will organize the document around our initial guesses at topical areas, understanding that the topical areas may have to be adjusted in the final report as a result of discussion. The goal would be to complete the following for the FSD: - Introduction - Science Challenges - Technology Challenges - Knowledge Gaps -- what we need to know that we don't know - Research Needs - Topic 1 - Definition/summary of area - Current status - Topic 2 ... - Appendix: References This is likely to be a 50 page document. This document would be partitioned into sections to be managed by individual organizers. Rather than requesting white papers from potential attendees, organizers would invite experts in respective areas to participate in the development of requisite sections. It might be easiest to develop this document using an online system such as Google Docs, understanding that eventually it would be turned into a Word document and finally into a PDF for publication as the workshop report. Position papers. In the Extreme Heterogeneity planning, we asked for position papers. We got over 100 of them. Parsing them has been a real challenge for the organizers. We should think about what approach we might employ for gathering input from the community prior to the workshop and what we would do with that material prior to the workshop vs. incorporating into the final report. Workshop. We will shoot for around 60 attendees, maybe 30/20/10 lab/university/industry. This helps keep the justification and planning fairly simple. We would plan for a 1.75-day workshop to facilitate covering five topical areas as separate, single-track discussions. If for some reason we end up needing only 1.5 days for the meeting proper, this would leave more time for the organizers to meet and discuss report completion. We will (mostly) assume that attendees have read the FSD prior to arrival at the meeting. Never the less, we will spend 1/2 day bringing the attendees up to speed, focusing on the background material from the FSD. This is similar to the opening plenary session portion of the BES workshop structure. The remainder of the meeting could follow the model from the 2014 SSIO meeting: 90-minute moderated discussion sessions, with notes captured live in PPT. With 1.75 days we can accommodate 5 total discussion topics. We will place a topic of broad interest last to encourage attendees to participate for the full meeting. These sessions will identify current status in the area, its CS challenges, its opportunities, and its research needs, reflecting the breakout session portion of the BES workshop structure. Because the meeting is single track, there is no need for outbrief sessions (i.e., the participants will have been present for all discussions). Report. The final report will be generated by augmenting the FSD with material summarizing the outcomes of the workshop. We will target a 75-100 page document (the 2015 report was approximately 90 pages). The outline for the report will look something like this: - Executive Summary - Introduction - Science Challenges - Technology Challenges - Knowledge Gaps (need to understand what this typically includes) - Research Needs - Topic 1 - Definition/summary of area - Current status - CS challenges and opportunities - Priority research directions (3-5) - Topic 2 ... - Priority research directions _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018 <2018-01-15-eh-pre-workshop-document.pdf><ml-pre-workshop-doc-20180124.pdf> _______________________________________________ ssio-2018 mailing list ssio-2018(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ssio-2018

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