**** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **** International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem March 3-4, 2015 Annapolis, Maryland, USA **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Hotel Block Closes: February 10, 2015 (to receive arranged rate) Registration Deadline: February 10, 2015 (to ensure meal availability) **** WORKSHOP REGISTRATION **** Registration for both days of the workshop is FREE, and includes breakfast and lunch each day. To register, visit https://register.ornl.gov/2015/lustreecosystem/ **** HOTEL RESERVATIONS **** A block of rooms for the nights of March 2-3 will be held until February 10, 2015 at the government rate of $100 plus tax. After February 10, rooms may not be available at the government rate. Rooms must be guaranteed via a major credit card. Reservations may be made directly with the Historic Inns of Annapolis by calling +1 800-847-8882 and referencing "Lustre" as the group name. Further information on lodging is available at http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem/lodging.html **** WORKSHOP OVERVIEW **** Large-scale storage systems are often difficult to manage with complicated interactions between expensive storage hardware, high performance interconnection networks, and client computer systems. The Lustre parallel file system has been widely adopted by high-performance computing (HPC) centers as an effective system for managing large-scale storage resources. Lustre achieves unprecedented aggregate performance by parallelizing I/O over file system clients and storage targets at extreme scales. Today, 7 out of 10 fastest supercomputers in the world use Lustre for high-performance storage. Lustre development has focused on improving the performance and scalability of large-scale scientific workloads. In particular, large-scale checkpoint storage and retrieval, which is characterized by bursty I/O from coordinated parallel clients, has been the primary driver of Lustre development over the last decade. With the advent of extreme scale computing and Big Data computing, many HPC centers are seeing increased user interest in running diverse workloads that place new demands on Lustre. This workshop will explore improvements in the performance and flexibility of the Lustre file system for supporting diverse workloads. This will be a great opportunity for the Lustre community to discuss the challenges associated with enhancing Lustre for diverse applications, the technological advances necessary, and the associated ecosystem. **** WORKSHOP AGENDA **** The first day of the program features a keynote talk from Intel's Eric Barton entitled "From Lab to Enterprise - Growing the Lustre Ecosystem". More information on the keynote is available at http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem/keynote.html The remainder of the first day is devoted to tutorials on managing and monitoring large-scale center-wide Lustre deployments. Tutorials will be presented by staff of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After the tutorials, an "Ask the OLCF" Q&A session will be held where attendees can ask additional questions. The technical program, presented on day two of the workshop, will feature talks on various topics including: * Workload Characterization * Adaptability and Scalability of Lustre for Diverse Workloads * Resilience and Serviceability of Lustre * Application-driven Lustre Benchmarking * Performance Monitoring Tools for Lustre The final agenda including technical talks will be posted next week at http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem/agenda.html