Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community,

We are delighted to invite you to register to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on

“Storage Technologies and Data Management”

to be held on Thursday, October 4, 2018 from 10:00 until 17:00, kindly hosted by CSCS.

We are also pleased to invite you to the annual community dinner, to be held in Lugano on Wednesday, October 3, 2018.

Forum Details

Introduction
Storage and data management is the key point for most IT services and especially in HPC. The amounts of data created and consumed in science increase almost exponentially year-on-year and storage capacity never lasts long enough. As administrators of data centers we face on a daily basis the need of a constant technology life cycle in order to handle upgrades and fulfill new requirements related for example to the implementation of FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable).
In this topic forum we would like to get an overview of the trends in storage technologies (online, offline) and better understand the new requirements related to the management of data.

Key Questions
We invite you to discuss with us the following questions:

• Online Storage, Offline/Tape or new upcoming storage technologies? What do we foresee?
• Cloud, Delocalisation or Centralisation of storage? Is it really important where the real data is?
• Distributed Storage and Security, are these two compatible?
• Bandwidth versus Storage Capacity, is it a problem?
• FAIR principles: How will they impact us?
• Persistent Identifier: Science, Research or a much wider scope?
• Old fashion POSIX versus the most popular Object Storage: Both, One or None of them in the next future?

Program

The forum program includes a diverse and stimulating mix of keynote presentations and technical talks, with speakers from academic institutions and research centres. The agenda also includes a visit of the CSCS Facility, home of Piz Daint, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

The program is available here.

Click here for further details on this forum.

Registration Deadline

If you haven’t yet done so, now is the time to register to ensure your place at the forum. Please note that online registration will close on Monday, September 24, 2018.

Click here to register now.

If you cannot attend yourself, please consider sending a representative of your organization.

Venues

CSCS – Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Conference Room Ground Floor
Via Trevano 131
6900 Lugano
T: +41 91 610 82 11

Seven Restaurant
Via Stauffacher 1
6900 Lugano
T: +41 091 290 77 77