NHR@SW and NHR-NORD@Göttingen / GWDG are jointly organizing the second Scalable Storage Competition (SSC), accompanied by the S³ Storage Summer School.
The Scalable Storage Competition gives participants the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with modern HPC storage systems and explore different approaches to building, configuring, and evaluating scalable storage environments.
Scalable Storage Competition
Participants can join either as a team or individually. The competition provides access to a dedicated infrastructure consisting of storage and compute nodes on which participants can develop and evaluate their own solutions.
During the competition, participants will:
- set up a cluster and storage or file system of their choice
- run established I/O benchmarks and applications
- tackle realistic, I/O-intensive scenarios
- compare their results against a provided baseline
- document their solution
- receive an evaluation from HPC storage experts
The competition provides an opportunity to deepen knowledge of storage architectures, I/O performance, and system configuration while working with real HPC infrastructure. It also creates opportunities for exchange with other participants and experts from the HPC community.
Applications are still open, even though the competition website currently indicates otherwise.
More information and registration:
https://ssc.vi4io.org
S³: Storage Summer School
The accompanying S³ Storage Summer School is currently taking place and provides participants with knowledge and practical experience related to scalable HPC storage.
Topics include parallel file systems, storage architectures, benchmarking, performance assessment, and tools that are also relevant for the Scalable Storage Competition.
More information and participation:
https://events.gwdg.de/event/1546/
The Storage Summer School and Scalable Storage Competition offer researchers, students, PhD candidates, and HPC professionals an opportunity to develop practical storage expertise, experiment with different solutions, and exchange ideas with the wider HPC community.