Title
Exacution: Enhancing Scientific Data Management For Exascale
Abstract
As we continue toward exascale, scientific data volume is continuing to scale and becoming more burdensome to manage. In this paper, we lay out opportunities to enhance state of the art data management techniques. We emphasize well principled data compression, and using it to achieve progressive refinement. This can both accelerate I/O and afford the user increased flexibility when she interacts with the data. The formulation naturally maps onto enabling partitioning of the progressively improving-quality representations of a data quantity into different media-type destinations, to keep the highest priority information as close as possible to the computation, and take advantage of deepening memory/storage hierarchies in ways not previously possible. Careful monitoring is requisite to our vision, not only to verify that compression has not eliminated salient features in the data, but also to better understand the performance of massively parallel scientific applications. Increased mathematical rigor would be ideal, to help bring compression on a better-understood theoretical footing, closer to the relevant scientific theory, more aware of constraints imposed by the science, and more tightly error-controlled. Throughout, we highlight pathfinding research we have begun exploring related these topics, and comment toward future work that will be needed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICDCS.2017.256
2017 IEEE 37TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS (ICDCS 2017)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Data modeling,Computer science,Massively parallel,Scientific theory,Throughput,Data compression,Data management,Progressive refinement,Salient,Distributed computing
Conference
1063-6927
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
22
Authors
17
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Klasky18212.77
Eric Suchyta2134.61
Mark Ainsworth311220.59
Qing Liu4678.10
Ben Whitney5194.38
Matthew Wolf657539.27
Jong Youl Choi730926.54
Foster Ian8229382663.24
Mark Kim9244.80
Jeremy Logan1015416.72
Kshitij Mehta11115.58
Todd S. Munson1224530.95
George Ostrouchov1314218.13
Manish Parashar143876343.30
Norbert Podhorszki15104683.84
Dave Pugmire1615218.62
Lipeng Wan1753.79