Publications
2024
Book chapter
Enhancing parallel programming education with high-performance clusters utilizing performance analysis
Roth, Anna-Lena; James, David; Kuhn, Michael; Konert, Johannes
In: Workshopband der 22. Fachtagung Bildungstechnologien (DELFI) - Bonn : Gesellschaft für Informatik ; Kiesler, Natalie . - 2024, S. 457-464 [Workshop: DELFI Workshops 2024, Fulda, 9.-11. September 2024]
Towards end-to-end compression in lustre
Fuchs, Anna; Squar, Jannek; Kuhn, Michael
In: 2024 IEEE International Symposium Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC) - [Piscataway, NJ] : IEEE, insges. 8 S. [Symposium: 23rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC, Chur, Switzerland, 08-10 July 2024]
DAI - how pre-computation speeds up data analysis
Duwe, Kira; Kuhn, Michael
In: Computational Science – ICCS 2024 , 1st ed. 2024. - Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland ; Franco, Leonardo, S. 116-130 - (Lecture notes in computer science; volume 14833) [Konferenz: 24th International Conference on Computational Science, Malaga, Spain, July 2-4, 2024]
Ensemble-based system benchmarking for HPC
Fuchs, Anna; Squar, Jannek; Kuhn, Michael
In: 2024 IEEE International Symposium Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC) - [Piscataway, NJ] : IEEE, insges. 8 S. [Symposium: 23rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC, Chur, Switzerland, 08-10 July 2024]
Peer-reviewed journal article
Automatic code transformation of NetCDF code for I/O optimisation
Squar, Jannek; Fuchs, Anna; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Mitteilungen / Fachgruppe Parallel-Algorithmen, -Rechnerstrukturen und -Systemsoftware - Bonn : Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Bd. 36 (2024), S. 27-36
Modelling MPI communication using coloured Petri Nets
Krabbe, Tronje; Blesel, Michael; Kuhn, Michael
In: Mitteilungen / Fachgruppe Parallel-Algorithmen, -Rechnerstrukturen und -Systemsoftware - Bonn : Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Bd. 36 (2024), S. 47-56
Non-peer-reviewed journal article
A design proposal for a unified B-epsilon-tree - embracing NVM in memory hierarchies
Karim, Sajad; Wünsche, Johannes; Broneske, David; Kuhn, Michael; Saake, Gunter
In: CEUR workshop proceedings - Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen, Bd. 3710 (2024), insges. 43-50 S. [35th GI-Workshop on Foundations of Databases, Herdecke, Germany, May 22-24, 2024]
2023
Book chapter
Intelligent data migration policies in a write-optimized copy-on-write tiered storage stack
Wünsche, Johannes; Karim, Sajad; Kuhn, Michael; Broneske, David; Saake, Gunter
In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems - New York,NY,United States : Association for Computing Machinery . - 2023, S. 17-26 [Workshop: 3rd Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems, Rome, Italy, 8 May 2023]
Vecpar - a framework for portability and parallelization
Mania, Georgiana; Styles, Nicholas; Kuhn, Michael; Salzburger, Andreas; Yeo, Beomki; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Computational Science – ICCS 2023 , 1st ed. 2023. - Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland ; Mikyška, Jiří., S. 253-267 - (Lecture notes in computer science book series; volume 14073) [Konferenz: 23rd International Conference on Computational Science, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-5, 2023]
Non-peer-reviewed journal article
Assessing non-volatile memory in modern heterogeneous storage landscape using a write-optimized storage stack
Karim, Sajad; Wünsche, Johannes; Broneske, David; Kuhn, Michael; Saake, Gunter
In: CEUR workshop proceedings - Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen, Bd. 3714 (2023), insges. 8 S. [34th GI-Workshop on Foundations of Databases, Hirsau, Germany, June 7-9, 2023]
2022
Book chapter
Data-aware compression for HPC using machine learning
Plehn, Julius; Fuchs, Anna; Kuhn, Michael; Lüttgau, Jakob; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems / Kuhn , Michael - New York,NY,United States : Association for Computing Machinery ; Kuhn, Michael . - 2022, S. 8-15 [Workshop: Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems, Rennes, France, 5. April 2022]
Energy efficiency of parallel file systems on an ARM cluster
Erxleben, Timm Leon; Duwe, Kira; Saak, Jens; Köhler, Martin; Kuhn, Michael
In: ENERGY 2022 / International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies , 2022 - [Wilmington, DE] : IARIA ; Sultan, Vivian, S. 42-48 [Konferenz: Twelfth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies, ENERGY 2022, Venice, Italy, 22. - 26. May 2022]
Peer-reviewed journal article
Content queries and in-depth analysis on version-controlled software
Squar, Jannek; Schroeter, Niclas; Fuchs, Anna; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Procedia computer science - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, Bd. 207 (2022), S. 1261-1270 [Konferenz: 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES2022, Verona, Italy, 7-9 September 2022]
Data-aware compression for HPC using machine learning
Plehn, Julius; Fuchs, Anna; Kuhn, Michael; Lüttgau, Jakob; Ludwig, Thomas
In: ACM SIGOPS operating systems review / Association for Computing Machinery - New York, NY : ACM, Bd. 56 (2022), Heft 1, S. 62-69
Green storage - parallel file systems on ARM
Erxleben, Timm Leon; Duwe, Kira; Saak, Jens; Köhler, Martin; Kuhn, Michael
In: International Journal on Advances in Software - [S.l.] : IARIA, Bd. 15 (2022), Heft 3&4, S. 200-210
Automated performance analysis tools framework for HPC programs
Keiff, Maximillian; Voigt, Frederic; Fuchs, Anna; Kuhn, Michael; Squar, Jannek; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Procedia computer science - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, Bd. 207 (2022), S. 1067-1076 [Konferenz: 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES2022, Verona, Italy, 7-9 September 2022]
Editor
Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems
Kuhn, Michael; Duwe, Kira; Acquaviva, Jean-Thomas; Chasapis, Konstantinos; Boukhobza, Jalil
In: New York,NY,United States: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, 1 online resource (44 pages) - (ACM Conferences; ACM Digital Library), ISBN: 978-1-4503-9209-9 [Title from The ACM Digital Library]
2021
Book chapter
heimdallr - improving compile time correctness checking for message passing with rust
Blesel, Michael; Kuhn, Michael; Squar, Jannek
In: High Performance Computing , 1st ed. 2021. - Cham : Springer International Publishing ; Jagode, Heike, S. 199-211 - (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues; 12761) [Workshop: Compiler-assisted Correctness Checking and Performance Optimization for HPC, Frankfurt, Germany, June 24 - July 2, 2021]
Coupling storage systems and self-describing data formats for global metadata management
Kuhn, Michael; Duwe, Kira
In: 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI) , 2020 - New York : IEEE . - 2021 [Konferenz: 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2020, Las Vegas, USA, 16-18 December 2020]
Dissecting self-describing data formats to enable advanced querying of file metadata
Duwe, Kira; Kuhn, Michael
In: SYSTOR 2021 - New York : Association for Computing Machinery, Artikel 12, insges. 7 S. [Konferenz: 14th ACM International Conference on Systems and Storage, SYSTOR 2021, HaIfa, Israel, 14.-16. June 2021]
Using ceph's BlueStore as object storage in HPC storage framework
Duwe, Kira; Kuhn, Michael
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS) - in conjunction with EuroSys 2021 - New York : ACM ; Kuhn, Michael, Artikel 3, insges. 6 S. [Workshop: Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems, virtual, April 2021]
Peer-reviewed journal article
A GPU-based Kalman filter for track fitting
Ai, Xiaocong; Mania, Georgiana; Gray, Heather M.; Kuhn, Michael; Styles, Nicholas
In: Computing and software for big science - Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, Bd. 5 (2021), Artikel 20, insges. 16 S.
Editor
Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS) - in conjunction with EuroSys 2021
Kuhn, Michael; Duwe, Kira; Acquaviva, Jean-Thomas; Chasapis, Konstantinos; Boukhobza, Jalil
In: New York: ACM, 2021, 1 Online-Ressource, ISBN: 978-1-4503-8302-8 Kongress: CHEOPS '21 virtual 2021.04.
Euro-Par 2020: Parallel Processing Workshops - Euro-Par 2020 International Workshops, Warsaw, Poland, August 24–25, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
Balis, Bartosz; B. Heras, Dora; Antonelli, Laura; Bracciali, Andrea; Gruber, Thomas; Hyun-Wook, Jin; Kuhn, Michael; Scott, Stephen L.; Unat, Didem; Wyrzykowski, Roman
In: Cham: Imprint: Springer, 2021., 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 358 p. 110 illus., 99 illus. in color.) - (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues; 12480; Springer eBook Collection), ISBN: 978-3-030-71593-9
2020
Book chapter
ArduPower v2: Open and modular power measurement for HPC components
Bremer, Daniel; Kuhn, Michael; Heidari, Mohammad Reza
In: The Tenth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies, ENERGY 2020 - IARIA, S. 24-29 [Konferenz: Tenth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies, ENERGY 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, September 27, 2020 to October 01, 2020]
Improving energy efficiency of scientific data compression with decision trees
Kuhn, Michael; Plehn, Julius; Alforov, Yevhen; Ludwig, Thomas
In: The Tenth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies, ENERGY 2020 - IARIA, S. 17-23 [Konferenz: Tenth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies, ENERGY 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, September 27, 2020 to October 01, 2020]
Compiler Assisted Source Transformation of OpenMP Kernels
Squar, Jannek; Jammer, Tim; Blesel, Michael; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: 2020 19th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), IEEE
Peer-reviewed journal article
State of the Art and Future Trends in Data Reduction for High-Performance Computing
Duwe, Kira; Lüttgau, Jakob; Mania, Georgiana; Squar, Jannek; Fuchs, Anna; Kuhn, Michael; Betke, Eugen; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, Publishing Center of South Ural State University, S. 4-36, 2020
Mission possible: Unify HPC and Big Data stacks towards application-defined blobs at the storage layer
Matri, Pierre; Alforov, Yevhen; Brandon, Álvaro; Pérez, María S.; Costan, Alexandru; Antoniu, Gabriel; Kuhn, Michael; Carns, Philip; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier BV, Bd. 109, S. 668-677
2019
Peer-reviewed journal article
Towards an HPC Certification Program
Kunkel, Julian; Himstedt, Kai; Hübbe, Nathanael; Stüben, Hinnerk; Schröder, Sandra; Kuhn, Michael; Riebisch, Matthias; Olbrich, Stephan; Ludwig, Thomas; Filinger, Weronika; Acquaviva, Jean-Thomas; Gerbes, Anja; Lafayette, Lev
In: The Journal of Computational Science Education, The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., Bd. 10, Heft 1, S. 88-89
Parallele Dateisysteme
Kuhn, Michael
In: Informatik Spektrum, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Bd. 42, Heft 5, S. 360-364
2018
Book chapter
Towards Green Scientific Data Compression Through High-Level I/O Interfaces
Alforov, Yevhen; Ludwig, Thomas; Novikova, Anastasiia; Kuhn, Michael; Kunkel, Julian
In: 2018 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), IEEE
Peer-reviewed journal article
A Survey of Storage Systems for High-Performance Computing
Lüttgau, Jakob; Kuhn, Michael; Duwe, Kira; Alforov, Yevhen; Betke, Eugen; Kunkel, Julian; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, Publishing Center of South Ural State University, S. 31-58, 2018
2017
Book chapter
Performance and Power Optimization
Kuhn, Michael; Chasapis, Konstantinos; Kuhn, Manuela; Malka, Janusz; Stibor, Thomas; Nešković, Gvozden
In: Helmholtz Portfolio Theme Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis (LSDMA), KIT Scientific Publishing, S. 141-160, 2017, 978-3-7315-0695-9
JULEA: A Flexible Storage Framework for HPC
Kuhn, Michael
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, S. 712-723, High Performance Computing
Could Blobs Fuel Storage-Based Convergence Between HPC and Big Data?
Matri, Pierre; Alforov, Yevhen; Brandon, Alvaro; Kuhn, Michael; Carns, Philip; Ludwig, Thomas
In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), IEEE
2016
Peer-reviewed journal article
Analyzing the energy consumption of the storage data path
Llopis, Pablo; Dolz, Manuel F.; Blas, Javier Garcia; Isaila, Florin; Heidari, Mohammad Reza; Kuhn, Michael
In: The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Bd. 72, Heft 11, S. 4089-4106
Data Compression for Climate Data
Kuhn, Michael; Kunkel, Julian; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, Publishing Center of South Ural State University, S. 75-94, 2016
2015
Book chapter
Big Data Research at DKRZ – Climate Model Data Production Workflow
Lautenschlager, Michael; Adamidis, Panagiotis; Kuhn, Michael
In: Big Data and High Performance Computing, IOS Press, S. 133-155, 2015, 978-1-61499-582-1
ARDUPOWER: A low-cost wattmeter to improve energy efficiency of HPC applications
Dolz, Manuel F.; Heidari, Mohammad Reza; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas; Fabregat, German
In: 2015 Sixth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), IEEE
MPI-checker - static analysis for MPI
Droste, Alexander; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC - LLVM '15, ACM Press
A Best Practice Analysis of HDF5 and NetCDF-4 Using Lustre
Bartz, Christopher; Chasapis, Konstantinos; Kuhn, Michael; Nerge, Petra; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, 2015, S. 274-281, High Performance Computing
Dynamically Adaptable I/O Semantics for High Performance Computing
Kuhn, Michael
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, S. 240-256, High Performance Computing
Article in conference proceedings
Analyzing Power Consumption of I/O Operations in HPC Applications
Llopis, Pablo; Dolz, Manuel F.; García-Blas, Javier; Isaila, Florin; Carretero, Jesús; Heidari, Mohammad Reza; Kuhn, Michael
In: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS 2015), Computer Architecture, Communications and Systems Group (ARCOS), S. 107-116, 2015, 978-84-608-2581-4
2014
Book chapter
Evaluating Lustre's Metadata Server on a Multi-Socket Platform
Chasapis, Konstantinos; Dolz, Manuel F.; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: 2014 9th Parallel Data Storage Workshop, IEEE
Peer-reviewed journal article
Exascale Storage Systems - An Analytical Study of Expenses
Kunkel, Julian; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, Publishing Center of South Ural State University, S. 116-134, 2014
Article in conference proceedings
Evaluating Power-Performace Benefits of Data Compression in HPC Storage Servers
Chasapis, Konstantinos; Dolz, Manuel; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: ENERGY 2014: The Fourth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies, IARIA XPS Press, S. 29-34, 2014, 978-1-61208-332-2
Compression By Default - Reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Storage Systems
Kuhn, Michael; Chasapis, Konstantinos; Dolz, Manuel; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Supercomputing, Springer International Publishing, 8488, 2014, 978-3-319-07517-4
2013
Book chapter
A Semantics-Aware I/O Interface for High Performance Computing
Kuhn, Michael
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, S. 408-421, Supercomputing
2012
Book chapter
Simulation-Aided Performance Evaluation of Server-Side Input/Output Optimizations
Kuhn, Michael; Kunkel, Julian M.; Ludwig, Thomas
In: 2012 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, IEEE
Tool Environments to Measure Power Consumption and Computational Performance
Minartz, Timo; Molka, Daniel; Kunkel, Julian; Knobloch, Michael; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group, S. 709-743, 2012, 978-1-4398-5040-4
A study on data deduplication in HPC storage systems
Meister, Dirk; Kaiser, Jurgen; Brinkmann, Andre; Cortes, Toni; Kuhn, Michael; Kunkel, Julian
In: 2012 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, IEEE
Peer-reviewed journal article
Towards an energy-aware scientific I/O interface - Stretching the ADIOS interface to foster performance analysis and energy awareness
Kunkel, Julian M.; Minartz, Timo; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Computer Science - Research and Development, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Bd. 27, Heft 4, S. 337-345
Article in conference proceedings
Evaluating the Influence of File System Interfaces and Semantics on I/O Throughput in High Performance Computing
Janssen, Christina; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session, 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, Institute for Systems Engineering and Automation, 31, 2012, 978-3-902457-31-8
Scientific Computing: Performance and Efficiency in Climate Models
Schröder, Sandra; Kuhn, Michael; Hübbe, Nathanael; Kunkel, Julian; Minartz, Timo; Nerge, Petra; Wasserfall, Florens; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session, 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, Institute for Systems Engineering and Automation, 31, 2012, 978-3-902457-31-8
Optimizations for Two-Phase Collective I/O
Kuhn, Michael; Kunkel, Julian; Tsujita, Yuichi; Muguruma, Hidetaka; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Applications, Tools and Techniques on the Road to Exascale Computing, IOS Press, 22, S. 455-462, 2012, 978-1-61499-040-6
2010
Peer-reviewed journal article
Collecting energy consumption of scientific data - Energy demands for files during their life cycle
Kunkel, Julian M.; Mordvinova, Olga; Kuhn, Michael; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Computer Science - Research and Development, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Bd. 25, Heft 3-4, S. 197-205
2009
Peer-reviewed journal article
Dynamic file system semantics to enable metadata optimizations in PVFS
Kuhn, Michael; Kunkel, Julian Martin; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, Bd. 21, Heft 14, S. 1775-1788
2008
Book chapter
Directory-Based Metadata Optimizations for Small Files in PVFS
Kuhn, Michael; Kunkel, Julian; Ludwig, Thomas
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, S. 90-99, Euro-Par 2008 – Parallel Processing
2007
Book chapter
Analysis of the MPI-IO Optimization Levels with the PIOViz Jumpshot Enhancement
Ludwig, Thomas; Krempel, Stephan; Kuhn, Michael; Kunkel, Julian; Lohse, Christian
In: Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface/ Capello - Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg; Capello, Franck . - 2007, S. 213-222 - ( Lecture notes in computer science; volume 4757)