Quick Information

In order to meet the demands of researchers requiring high-performance computing (HPC) resources, large-scale computational and storage machines must be built and maintained. The HPC systems professionals who tend these systems include system engineers, system administrators, network administrators, storage administrators, and operations staff who face problems that are unique to HPC systems. While many separate conferences exist for the HPC field and for the system administration field, none exist that focus specifically on the needs of HPC systems professionals. Support resources can be difficult to find to help with the issues encountered in this specialized field. Often, systems staff turn to the community as a support resource and opportunities to strengthen and grow those relationships are highly beneficial.

This Symposium is designed to share solutions to common problems, provide a platform to discuss upcoming technologies, and to present state of the practice techniques so that HPC centers will get a better return on their investment, increase performance and reliability of systems, and researchers will be more productive. Additionally, this Symposium is affiliated with the systems professionals' chapter of the ACM SIGHPC (SIGHPC SYSPROS Virtual ACM Chapter). This session would serve as an opportunity for chapter members to meet face-to-face, discuss the chapter's yearly workshop held at SC, and continue building our community's shared knowledge base.

This Workshop is targeted at HPC systems professionals. These are personnel who are directly or indirectly involved in the design, implementation, and operations of HPC and AI focused infrastructure. This includes large- and small-scale compute clusters, specialty resources (Jetstream, OpenStack, etc.), high-speed and/or low-latency network infrastructure, and massive storage resources.

For more information, check out our upcoming activities.

 Invited Speakers

The following speakers will be presenting:

• The ABCs of HPC Training: Training is a key component of successful and efficient utilization of any high performance computing (HPC) system. While systems administrators are experts in what their users need to know, determining how best to convey that information can be challenging. This talk will discuss the basic principles of building an HPC training program, based on lessons learned from Stanford Research Computing’s researcher-facing team. Presented by Christina Gancayco, Computational Consultant with Stanford Research Computing (SRC)
• Image-Builder from LANL: Building images is a necessary part of standing up and managing HPC systems. Why not make it easier by leveraging container and CI/CD technologies? This talk will discuss image-builder, a cleverly named tool to streamline containerized builds of HPC images, and some automation and scanning strategies we employ at LANL. Presented by Travis Bradley Cotton from LANL

A little bit about our speakers:

• Christina is a Computational Consultant with Stanford Research Computing (SRC). She spearheaded the development of SRC’s workshop program post-pandemic, and is currently working on a new format of customized HPC training for individual schools and departments at Stanford University. At work, Christina spends her day-to-day creating and teaching workshops and supporting researchers on SRC’s HPC systems. At home, Christina enjoys reading and has a 500+ day streak on Duolingo.

• Travis is a Scientist 3 in HPC-DES at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He works on systems integration and recently has been the team lead on developing and deploying OpenCHAMI at LANL. When not working he enjoys gardening, hiking, and reading.

Schedule

 Organizing Committee

 Contact Information

If you need to contact us, send email to SIGHPC SYSPROS.

 Links

• SC HPC Sysadmin Mailing List - you should join!
• Email us to get an invite to the SIGHPC SYSPROS Slack team
• Upcoming activities including our workshop at SC25