Coordinating government funding of file system and I/O research through the high end computing university research activity

  • Authors:

  • Gary Grider;James Nunez;John Bent;Steve Poole;Rob Ross;Evan Felix

  • Affiliations:

  • Los Alamos National Lab;Los Alamos National Lab;Los Alamos National Lab;Oak Ridge National Lab;Argonne National Lab;Pacific Northwest National Lab

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In 2003, the High End Computing Revitalization Task Force designated file systems and I/O as an area in need of national focus. The purpose of the High End Computing Interagency Working Group (HECIWG) is to coordinate government spending on File Systems and I/O (FSIO) R&D by all the government agencies that are involved in High End Computing. The HECIWG tasked a smaller advisory group to list, categorize, and prioritize HEC I/O and File Systems R&D needs. In 2005, leaders in FSIO from academia, industry and government agencies collaborated to list and prioritize areas of research in HEC FSIO. This led to a very successful High End Computing University Research Activity (HECURA) call from NSF in 2006 and has prompted a new HECURA call from NSF in 2009. This paper serves as both a review of the 2008 HEC FSIO identified research gaps as well as a preview of this forthcoming HECURA call.