Future Online Analysis Platform Workshop Report
Kate Keahey, Jim Ahrens · 2018
Recent technology trends, such as the increasing focus on data management technologies and the emergence of sustainable on-demand computing and commercial cloud facilities provide initial steps and potential building blocks for creating such a compute facility. How do we fill the gap between what we have now and the capabilities we need to make the vision of an online data facility a reality? What research challenges need to be addressed – and can be addressed – in the coming 5-10 years? How should we adjust our vision if they are not solved? Is such a facility compatible with the existing and evolving exascale resources and/or how should they evolve to be compatible? How do “beyond Moore’s law” technologies enable advanced data analysis? Those are the challeges that the Future Platform workshop was organized to address. This report is organized as follows. Section 2 summarizes data challenges and patterns related to the exemplar use cases presented during the first half day of the workshop. Section 3 summarizes the requirements presented by those use cases as well as a synthesis of those requirements into a Future Platform definition achieved on the 3rd half day of the workshop (morning of the 2nd day). Section 4 includes area breakout reports from the areas on the 2nd half day of the workshop (afternoon of the 1st day). Finally Section 5 has a report on recommendation for building methodology and metrics. The report concludes in Section 6.