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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I will be there and can attend if there is need/interest. Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>./Sorin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Openbenchmark [mailto:openbenchmark-bounces@lists.opensfs.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tiwari, Devesh<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 18, 2015 1:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> openbenchmark@lists.opensfs.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Openbenchmark] BoF at SC'15<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Folks, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As many of you already know, we are planning to organize a BoF at SC. We are in the process of finalizing the panelists and topics to discuss. Please see below the list and suggest some names/new interesting questions.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Panelist:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Research side - Marc Snir (Argonne), alternative/backup?<br>System administration and operations - Marc Stearman, alternative/backup?<br>Industry - Cory Spitzer, alternative/backup?<br>User community - Joe Walsh at Welstinghouse, alternative/backup?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Topic:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- What are you doing when you benchmark?<br>- What are the current limitation of our practices in benchmarking, e.g., variance in the benchmarks and reproducible results?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Where are file systems going and how do you know you got there?<br>- You have to benchmark. Or do you? What about Burst buffers and NVM benchmarking?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Please add more. These are just initial thoughts that we discussed in last couple of meetings. We should refine more here.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Andrew and \u2202t<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"'>\u2026\u2202t</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>