HPC Data, Filesystems & Object storage - Exploring requirements & trends of scientific data pipelines and underpinning storage services.

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 involve 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.