Parallel

Computing

and I/O

The project goal is to explore the benefits of a coupled storage system for self-describing data formats. It will introduce a novel hybrid approach leveraging storage technologies from the fields of high-performance computing and database systems, where each technology will be used according to its respective strengths and weaknesses. By coupling the storage system tightly with self-describing data formats, it can make use of structural information for selecting appropriate storage technologies and tiers. As such information is currently not available, storage systems have to employ heuristics, which often lead to suboptimal performance as well as unnecessary and expensive data movements. Moreover, the storage system will support adaptable I/O semantics to tune its performance according to application and data format requirements. Together, these features will enable completely new data management methods and provide significant performance improvements. Existing workflows of scientific users will be supported through a dedicated data analysis interface. All changes will be thoroughly tested to ensure backwards compatibility with existing applications and interfaces. Consequently, no modifications will be necessary to run applications on top of CoSEMoS, which helps preserve past investments in scientific software development.

More information can be found in the Problem Statement.

Funding

This project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 417705296.

Partners

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig (director of the German Climate Computing Center and professor at Universität Hamburg)
• Johann Lombardi (principal architect in the High Performance Data Division at Intel)
• Uwe Schulzweida (one of the main developers of the Climate Data Operators at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)

Deliverables

• Deliverable D1: Report
• Deliverable D1: Survey

Links

• https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/417705296
• https://cosemos.de
• https://github.com/julea-io

Posters

• Project Poster ISC-HPC 2022
• Project Poster ISC-HPC 2021

Publications

2022

Buchbeitrag

          Erxleben, Timm Leon; Duwe, Kira; Saak, Jens; Köhler, Martin; Kuhn, Michael
          Energy Efficiency of Parallel File Systems on an ARM Cluster
          In: The Twelth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies,
          ENERGY 2022 - IARIA, 2022 . In Press

2021

Buchbeitrag

          Duwe, Kira;  Kuhn, Michael
          Using ceph's BlueStore as object storage in HPC storage framework
          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 - in conjunction with EuroSys 2021 . -
          2021, insges. 6 S.
          https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3439839.3458734

Herausgeberschaft

          Kuhn, Michael [HerausgeberIn];  Duwe, Kira [HerausgeberIn];  Acquaviva, Jean-Thomas [HerausgeberIn];
          Chasapis, Konstantinos [HerausgeberIn];  Boukhobza, Jalil [HerausgeberIn]

          Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS) -
          in conjunction with EuroSys 2021
          In: New York: ACM, 2021, 1 Online-Ressource
          https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3439839#issue-downloads

2020

Begutachteter Zeitschriftenartikel

          Duwe, Kira;  Lüttgau, Jakob;  Mania, Georgiana;  Squar, Jannek;  Fuchs, Anna;  Kuhn, Michael;  Betke, Eugen; 
          Ludwig, Thomas 
          State of the Art and Future Trends in Data Reduction for High-Performance Computing
          In: Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, Publishing Center of South Ural State University, S. 4-36, 2020
          https://superfri.org/index.php/superfri/article/view/303