[Openbenchmark] notes from today

[Oral, H. Sarp]

Sorin,


The deadline for LUG submission is already closed (if we are talking about
a regular LUG presentation) and I am not sure LUG Program Committee can
squeeze one more talk in, but I will try and ask.


On the other hand, if you want to present at OpenSFS Benchmarking
Workgroup meeting on Sunday April 22nd at LUG (not a regular talk) for 5
mins, I think Richard and I can arrange that one.

Please let me know what your preference is.


Thanks,


Sarp

-- 
Sarp Oral, PhD

National Center for Computational Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
oralhs at ornl.gov
865-574-2173






On 3/29/12 5:43 PM, "faibish_sorin at emc.com" <faibish_sorin at emc.com> wrote:

>Per your email I will need some time to present the sfs netmist benchmark
>at the LUG. How do I get a spot for the presentation as you mention in
>the email. Who will be able to schedule this during the next LUG meeting?
>Thank you for your advice
>
>/Sorin
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:openbenchmark-bounces at lists.opensfs.org] On Behalf Of Vanderbilt,
>Richard
>Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 5:09 PM
>To: openbenchmark at lists.opensfs.org
>Subject: [Openbenchmark] FW: notes from today
>
>3/23/2012
>OpenSFS Benchmarking Workgroup
>
>Participants:
>Sarp Oral ORNL Richard Vanderbilt Netapp Henry Newman Instrumental Neil
>Martin Instrumental Cory Spitz Cray Frank Leers DDN, Branislav
>Radovanovic   Netapp, Eugene Birkine Xyratex, Stephen Simms Indiana
>Univ., William Arcand MIT, David Bester MIT, Galen Shipman ORNL, Rich
>Moore,  John Hammond TACC,  Richard Henwood  Whamcloud,  Sorin Faibish
>EMC,  Liam Forbes Alaska EDU,  Dave Vasil DDN.  (I apologize if I missed
>anyone).
>
>Notes: OpenSFS board has not yet approved the working groups charter.  We
>expect them to approve the charter this Tuesday at the next board meeting.
>We had several new members join.  For the benefit of these new members we
>briefly discussed our charter and discussed where we are in the program.
>One focus of this working group is to identify various I/O workloads in
>HPC environments primarily Lustre environments.  To standardize on the
>collection of data, this group Is assembling a questionnaire to send out
>to the Lustre community. The questionnaire is intended to retrieve
>information about their Lustre environment including: I/O workloads,
>configurations, Client/application information and the markets they serve.
>
>Today, we passed around the first Draft of the questionnaire  (see
>attached document).  The initial draft of the questionnaire was generated
>by Henry Newman and Neil Martin from Instrumental and Sarp Oral from ORNL
>and Richard Vanderbilt from NetAPP.  We are asking the members to review
>the questionnaire and edit as they deem appropriate.  Our next meeting
>will review the edits and walk through the questionnaire. Those members
>in the Lustre user community, we asked if they would be kind enough to
>begin answering the survey.  These members can act as a pilot for
>sharpening the survey.
>
>Members were asked on the call if they knew of any data collection tools
>used to collect the data we are seeking.  (Someone volunteered their tool
>but I'm sorry I didn't get your name.)  These tools should be freely
>available and preferably easy to deploy.  There were some tools mentioned
>from Berkeley Livermore Labs that could also be a starting point.
>
>Sorin Faibish from EMC is proposing the use of a benchmark from SpecFS.
>This benchmark tool can generate different workloads per profile.  Sorin
>is working on generating some profiles to emulate Lustre workloads.
>Sorin, requested time at the face to face meeting at LUG to present this
>benchmarking tool.  We need to understand these tools better to make an
>informed decision.  Sorin, has provided more information in a subsequent
>email.
>
>Neil and Henry will be working on a list of definitions and abbreviations
>used in our working document.
>
>Once we become an official working group, our first requirement is to
>create a white paper defining in greater detail the objectives of this
>group, the content we plan to create, the schedules and progression
>outline.  I will begin working on this for next week's meeting.
>
>I would like to thank Neil, Henry and Sarp for developing the initial
>draft of the questionnaire.  If you have any questions, feel free to send
>them to both Sarp and/or myself.
>
>Kind Regards:
>
>Benchmarking Work Group
>
>Richard Vanderbilt - Netapp
>1(925)872-4399 mobile
>Co-Chair
>
>Sarp Oral - ORNL
>Co-Chair
>1(865)574-2173
>
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