Marc-André Vef, Dr.

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Postdoctoral researcher in the Efficient Computing and Storage Group

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12
55128 Mainz, Germany

Telefon: +49 6131 39 29426
Email: vef@uni-mainz.de

 
 
 
 

About

Marc-André Vef is a postdoctoral researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. He started his Ph.D. in 2016 after receiving his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His master's thesis was in cooperation with IBM Research about analyzing file create performance in the IBM Spectrum Scale parallel file system (formerly GPFS).

During his Ph.D., he has worked on several projects focusing on file system tracing (in collaboration with IBM Research) and distributed file systems, among others. Most notably, he designed two ad-hoc distributed file systems: DelveFS (in collaboration with OpenIO), which won the Best Paper in its category, and GekkoFS (in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center). GekkoFS placed fourth in its first entry in the 10-node challenge of the IO500 benchmark. The file system is actively developed in the scope of the EuroHPC ADMIRE project. He finished his Ph.D. in July 2023.

His research interests focus on file systems and system analytics.

Publications

2024

  • Ahmad Tarraf, Martin Schreiber, Alberto Cascajo, Jean-Baptiste Besnard, Marc-Andre Vef, Dominik Huber, Sonja Happ, Andre Brinkmann, David E Singh, Hans-Christian Hoppe, Alberto Miranda, Antonio J Pena, Rui Machado, Marta Garcia-Gasulla, Martin Schulz, Paul Carpenter, Simon Pickartz, Tiberiu Rotaru, Sergio Iserte, Victor Lopez, Jorge Ejarque, Heena Sirwani, Jesus Carretero, and Felix Wolf. 2024. Malleability in Modern HPC Systems: Current Experiences, Challenges, and Future Opportunities. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 35, 9: 1551–1564. DOI Author/Publisher URL
  • Yingjin Qian, Marc-André Vef, Patrick Farrell, Andreas Dilger, Xi Li, Shuichi Ihara, Yinjin Fu, Wei Xue, and André Brinkmann. 2024. Combining Buffered I/O and Direct I/O in Distributed File Systems. In Proceedings of the 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Santa Clara, CA, USA, February 27-29, 17–33. Author/Publisher URL

2023

  • Jesus Carretero, Javier Garcia-Blas, Marco Aldinucci, Jean Baptiste Besnard, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Andre Brinkmann, Marc-Andre Vef, Emmanuel Jeannot, Alberto Miranda, Ramon Nou, Morris Riedel, Massimo Torquati, and Felix Wolf. 2023. Adaptive multi-tier intelligent data manager for Exascale. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers {CF}, Bologna, Italy, May 9-11, 285–290. DOI
  • Marc-André Vef, Alberto Miranda, Ramon Nou, and André Brinkmann. 2023. From Static to Malleable: Improving Flexibility and Compatibility in Burst Buffer File Systems. In 2nd International Workshop on Malleability Techniques Applications in High-Performance Computing (HPCMall). Author/Publisher URL
  • Marc-André Vef. 2023. New techniques for tracing and designing HPC storage systems. Author/Publisher URL
  • Nafiseh Moti, André Brinkmann, Marc-André Vef, Philippe Deniel, Jesus Carretero, Philip Carns, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, and Reza Salkhordeh. 2023. The I/O Trace Initiative: Building a Collaborative I/O Archive to Advance HPC. In Proceedings of the SC ’23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis. DOI Author/Publisher URL
  • Yingjin Qian, Wen Cheng, Lingfang Zeng, Xi Li, Marc-André Vef, Andreas Dilger, Siyao Lai, Shuichi Ihara, Yong Fan, and André Brinkmann. 2023. Xfast: Extreme File Attribute Stat Acceleration for Lustre. In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), Denver, CO, USA, November 12-17, 96:1–96:12. DOI Author/Publisher URL

2022

  • Yingjin Qian, Wen Cheng, Lingfang Zeng, Marc-André Vef, Oleg Drokin, Andreas Dilger, Shuichi Ihara, Wusheng Zhang, Yang Wang, and André Brinkmann. 2022. MetaWBC: POSIX-compliant metadata write-back caching for distributed file systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 795–814.
  • Yingjin Qian, Wen Cheng, Lingfang Zeng, Marc-André Vef, Oleg Drokin, Andreas Dilger, Shuichi Ihara, Wusheng Zhang, Yang Wang, and André Brinkmann. 2022. MetaWBC: POSIX-Compliant Metadata Write-Back Caching for Distributed File Systems. In SC, 56:1–56:1.

2021

  • Frederic Schimmelpfennig, Marc-André Vef, Reza Salkhordeh, Alberto Miranda, Ramon Nou, and André Brinkmann. 2021. Streamlining distributed Deep Learning I/O with ad hoc file systems. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 169–180. DOI Author/Publisher URL
  • Tim Süß, Lars Nagel, Marc-André Vef, André Brinkmann, Dustin Feld, and Thomas Soddemann. 2021. Pure Functions in C: A Small Keyword for Automatic Parallelization. Int. J. Parallel Program. 49: 1–24. DOI

2020

  • André Brinkmann, Kathryn Mohror and Weikuan Yu, Philip Carns, Toni Cortes, Scott A Klasky, Alberto Miranda, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Robert B Ross, and Marc-André Vef. 2020. Ad Hoc File Systems for High-Performance Computing. Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) 35, 1: 4–26. DOI Author/Publisher URL
  • Marc-Andre Vef, Rebecca Steiner, Reza Salkhordeh, Jorg Steinkamp, Florent Vennetier, Jean-Francois Smigielski, and Andre Brinkmann. 2020. DelveFS - An Event-Driven Semantic File System for Object Stores. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 35–46. DOI Author/Publisher URL
  • Marc-André Vef, Nafiseh Moti, Tim Süß, Markus Tacke, Tommaso Tocci, Ramon Nou, Alberto Miranda, Toni Cortes, and André Brinkmann. 2020. GekkoFS - A Temporary Burst Buffer File System for HPC Applications. Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) 35, 1: 72–91. DOI Author/Publisher URL
  • Sebastian Oeste, Marc-André Vef, Mehmet Soysal, Wolfgang E Nagel, André Brinkmann, and Achim Streit. 2020. ADA-FS - Advanced Data Placement via Ad hoc File Systems at Extreme Scales. In Software for Exascale Computing - SPPEXA 2016-2019. Springer International Publishing, 29–59. DOI

2019

  • Mehmet Soysal, Marco Berghoff, Thorsten Zirwes, Marc-André Vef, Sebastian Oeste, André Brinkmann, Wolfgang E Nagel, and Achim Streit. 2019. Using On-Demand File Systems in HPC Environments. In HPCS, 390–398. Author/Publisher URL

2018

  • Marc-André Vef, Nafiseh Moti, Tim Süß, Tommaso Tocci, Ramon Nou, Alberto Miranda, Toni Cortes, and André Brinkmann. 2018. GekkoFS - A Temporary Distributed File System for HPC Applications. In IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Belfast, UK, September 10-13, 319–324. DOI Author/Publisher URL
  • Marc-André Vef, Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand, and André Brinkmann. 2018. Challenges and Solutions for Tracing Storage Systems: A Case Study with Spectrum Scale. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS) 14: 18:1–18:24. DOI Author/Publisher URL

2017

  • Tim Süß, Lars Nagel, Marc-André Vef, André Brinkmann, Dustin Feld, and Thomas Soddemann. 2017. Pure Functions in C: A Small Keyword for Automatic Parallelization. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 552–556. DOI

2016

  • Marc André Vef, Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand, and André Brinkmann. 2016. Tracing of Complex Production Systems: Obstacles and Solutions. In 1st International Workshop on System Analytics and Characterization. Author/Publisher URL
  • Marc André Vef. 2016. Analyzing File Create Performance in IBM Spectrum Scale. Author/Publisher URL