Research Portfolio

IOWarp

Active

Context-management infrastructure for organizing scientific data, metadata, telemetry, and computational state. CLIO Core provides storage and runtime services; CLIO Kit connects agents to scientific tools.

ChronoLog

Active

A distributed shared log that orders activity and provenance data with physical time and moves records across memory, local storage, and archival tiers.

LABIOS

Active

LABIOS represents I/O as labels that carry an operation, data pointer, and routing metadata. Its public prototype routes labels from applications and agents through a dispatcher to Databot and Pipeline workers; the Agentic tier remains planned.

Hermes

Active

Distributed I/O buffering middleware that coordinates data placement across DRAM, NVMe, burst buffers, and parallel file systems.

DTIO

Active

A task-based I/O runtime developed with Argonne National Laboratory to connect HPC, Big Data, and ML data stacks. The SSDBM'25 paper reports 49.6% better I/O performance for online translation with DataTask caching than for offline translation.

Coeus

Active

An active-storage framework that computes derived quantities in transit and queries enriched metadata. The Hades paper reports 3 to 4 times faster analysis on tested Gray-Scott workflows.

DeepIO

Active

Data-path methods for scientific AI, from the DLIO benchmark and Viper model transfer framework to UnboxKV characterization and PKAS scheduling for KV caches under concurrent LLM inference.

Portus

Active

A DOE Genesis Mission project led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that ports scientific workflows to HPC systems and tunes where their tasks and data run. GRC contributes workflow performance research and CLIO.

SPOTTER-AI

Active

A DOE Genesis Mission project led by Argonne National Laboratory that captures provenance across scientific workflows and traces and attributes threats to their data and results. GRC contributes CLIO from IOWarp.

WisIO

Active

WisIO analyzes HPC I/O traces through time, process, and file views, then connects metric-level bottlenecks with root causes.

IRIS

Active

Unified data access middleware that translates between parallel file-system and object-store semantics.

This project combines cryptographic algorithms, application requirements, and memory architecture designs to protect memory access patterns from side channels.

MPI4AI

Active

MPI4AI extends Open MPI with GPU communication, AI-oriented collectives, compute-stream integration, and fault tolerance for large-scale AI workloads.

StoreHub

Winding Down

StoreHub combined two community instruments, a national workshop, and a landscape analysis to assess the need for dedicated data storage research infrastructure. Its public report recommends a staged federation built on existing facilities.

UniMCC

Active

UniMCC coordinates architecture, code generation, runtime support, and performance models for near-memory processing and disaggregated memory.