Mr. Chris Schlipalius1
1The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Perth, Australia
Biography:
Chris is an experienced presenter and Senior Systems Administrator with over 20 years of experience working and managing block storage, SANs, Tape and POSIX filesystems for large data holdings at The Curtin University of Technology and The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. The latter of which he is Technical Lead, responsible for specifying and deploying the Banksia tape and disk cache system (holding 47PB of data accessed via an open-source S3 Object gateway).
He was a technical reviewer of the Pawsey Acacia Object storage project which utilises Ceph Community Edition. Chris worked on the migration of over 50 PB of storage held on Lustre, GPFS and CXFS parallel filesystems to two object stores systems for Australian researchers.
He has presented at and organised a number of workshops on Storage and Filesystems in Australia (alongside eResearch and in Singapore at SCA). He also presented at the main Spectrum Scale Usergroup at SC18 on /Improving Spark work load performance//with Spectrum Conductor/.
He ran the Spectrum Scale Usergroup at previous SCA conferences, also at cities across Australia and was on the Spectrum Scale Usergroup worldwide organising committee and IBM Champion for 5 years.
Abstract:
This BoF seeks to serve the growing community of researchers, developers, vendors, and facility operators whom are directly involved with architecting, operating and using such HPC data services. Participants will share and discuss practical experiences, implementation examples, new features, trends and directions, as well as contemporary practices on the design, acquisition and deployment of data services for HPC as well as supporting data access and collaboration on large scale scientific data sets.
The intended audience for the BoF session are researchers, developers, vendors, and facility operators.
It involves presentations with Q and A, a panel discussion and some interactive activities and open-floor discussions of material and themes presented and raised.
The key takeaways or outcomes that attendees can expect to derive from participating in the session include information on technologies and testing and methods to address new (or old) challenges with data and storage. Obtaining helpful project examples, others whom they may continue to discuss projects or examples with.