Suren Byna

Senior Scientist

Phone: +1 510 495 8136

Mobile: +1 510 486 4004

Suren Byna is a Senior Scientist in the Scientific Data Management Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). His research interests are in scientific data management. More specifically, he is interested in parallel I/O, data management systems for managing scientific data, and heterogeneous computing. He is the PI of the ECP funded ExaIO project, and ASCR funded object-centric data management systems (Proactive Data Containers - PDC) and experimental and observational data management (EOD-HDF5) projects.

Before joining LBNL in November 2010, Suren was a researcher at NEC Labs America, where he was a part of the Computer Systems Architecture Department (now Integrated Systems Department) and was involved in the Heterogeneous Cluster Computing project. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and a Guest Researcher at the Math and Computer Science division of the Argonne National Laboratory, as well as a Faculty Member of the Scalable Computing Software Laboratory at IIT. He received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

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Projects and Selected Publications

Holistic Parallel I/O Characterization

[PDSW 2017] [CUG 2017 - KNL vs. Haswell IO] [CUG 2017 - DXT]

SDAV

[ICPADS 2014] [SSDBM 2013] [CCGrid 2012]

Climate Data Analysis

[ASCMO 2015] [CAIP 2015] [AGU Fall Meeting 2014] [AGU Fall Meeting 2013 - Stat] [AGU Fall Meeting 2013 - TECA]
[IS&T/SPIE 2013] [ICAP 2012] [WCRP 2012] [DMESS 2012] [AGU Fall 2011] [PDAC 2011]

Energy-aware Computing & I/O

[CUG 2015] [ICPP 2011]

Conference Papers

Benjamin A. Brock, Yuxin Chen, Jiakun Yan, John Owens, Aydın Buluç, Katherine Yelick, "RDMA vs. RPC for implementing distributed data structures", 2019 IEEE/ACM 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms (IA3), Denver, CO, USA, IEEE, November 18, 2019, 17--22, doi: 10.1109/IA349570.2019.00009

Distributed data structures are key to implementing scalable applications for scientific simulations and data analysis. In this paper we look at two implementation styles for distributed data structures: remote direct memory access (RDMA) and remote procedure call (RPC). We focus on operations that require individual accesses to remote portions of a distributed data structure, e.g., accessing a hash table bucket or distributed queue, rather than global operations in which all processors collectively exchange information. We look at the trade-offs between the two styles through microbenchmarks and a performance model that approximates the cost of each. The RDMA operations have direct hardware support in the network and therefore lower latency and overhead, while the RPC operations are more expressive but higher cost and can suffer from lack of attentiveness from the remote side. We also run experiments to compare the real-world performance of RDMA- and RPC-based data structure operations with the predicted performance to evaluate the accuracy of our model, and show that while the model does not always precisely predict running time, it allows us to choose the best implementation in the examples shown. We believe this analysis will assist developers in designing data structures that will perform well on current network architectures, as well as network architects in providing better support for this class of distributed data structures.

Reports

Luke J Gosink, "Bin-hash indexing: A parallel method for fast query processing", 2008, LBNL 729E,

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Suren Byna

Projects and Selected Publications

SDS: Scientific Data Services Framework

ExaHDF5: Advancing HPC I/O to Enable Scientific Discovery

Proactive Data Containers (PDC)

In situ AMR Indexing & Querying