SC24 High Performance Object Storage: I/O for the Exascale Era

This repository contains the slides and exercises for the SC24 tutorial on High Performance Object Storage: I/O for the Exascale Era

This contains material contributed from a number of authors and organsations, including:

• Adrian Jackson, EPCC
• Johann Lombardi, Independent
• Mohamad Chaarawi, Intel
• Nicolau Manubens, ECMWF

Timetable

• 13.30 Introduction
• 13.40 Object storage and storage hardware
• 14.00 Practical: Benchmarking different storage approaches
• 14.15 Overview of DAOS
• 14.35 DAOS programming API
• 15.00 Break
• 15.30 Practical: Hands-on DAOS programming
• 15.45 Ceph storage interfaces and librados
• 16.15 Librados programming API
• 16.25 Practical: Using DAOS and/or Ceph for applications
• 16.55 Designing for object storage
• 17.00 Summary and finish

Running

The practical exercises will be run on GCP resources Please visit this page for more details on how to access the system.