Join us on June 25, 2025, for a webinar hosted by Johann Lombardi, where we'll explore Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS).
Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) is a high-performance, open-source storage stack that is transforming data management for HPC and AI workloads. Built on a fully distributed key-value architecture, DAOS overcomes the data and metadata bottlenecks inherent in traditional POSIX-based systems. By leveraging commodity hardware, it delivers exceptional performance and cost efficiency while supporting file, block, and object access modes. DAOS also offers a rich set of interfaces, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, HDF5, and MPI-IO. This talk will introduce the DAOS project and its growing open-source community, explore the architectural foundations of DAOS, and highlight its deployment on the Aurora exascale supercomputer.
Johann Lombardi is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Chair of the DAOS Foundation, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation. Before joining HPE, he spent 12 years at Intel as a Senior Principal Engineer and Lead Architect for the DAOS project. Earlier in his career, Johann gained 8 years of experience contributing to the advancement of the Lustre parallel file system.
