Quick Information
In order to meet the demands of high performance computing (HPC) researchers, large-scale computational and storage machines require many staff members who design, install, and maintain these systems. These HPC systems professionals include system engineers, system administrators, network administrators, storage administrators and operations staff all who face problems that are specific to high performance systems.
The Systems Professionals Workshop intends to be a platform for discussing the unique challenges that come from supporting large-scale, high performance systems. We are soliciting submissions that speak directly to the state of the practice of standing up and operating high performance systems with an emphasis on solutions that can be implemented by systems staff at other institutions.
After two successful workshops (2016, 2017), we are planning the 2018 version. The workshop will be November 11, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM.
Here is a link to the to the official announcement.
Call for Papers
Our call for papers is on GitHub. Be sure and check this out.Slides from Papers
- HPCSYSPROS Introduction (pptx)
- Studying Effects of Meltdown and Spectre Patches on the Performance of HPC Applications Using Application Kernel Module of XDMoD (pptx)
- Stateles Provisioning: Modern Practice in HPC (pptx)
- Rapid Deployment of Bare-Metal and In-Container HPC Clusters Using OpenHPC playbooks (pdf)
- Making Containers Easier with HPC Container Maker (pptx)
- Best Practices in Managing Tens of Petabytes of Data (pptx)
- Next Generation Cluster Management Architecture (pptx)
- cgroups_py: Using Linux Control Groups and Systemd to Manage CPU Time and Memory (pdf)
- xCat and Masterless Puppet: Aiming for Ideal Configuration Management (pdf)
- Compliant Cloud+Campus Hybrid HPC Infrastrucutre (pptx), CRC CUI Drawing (pdf)
- LCI Postcard (pdf)
Topics of Interest
Here are some topics of interest for this group. Note that these are here to indicate direction, not to disallow other related topics.
- Cluster, configuration, or software management
- Performance tuning/Benchmarking
- Resource manager and job scheduler configuration
- Monitoring/Mean-time-to-failure/ROI/Resource utilization
- Virtualization/Clouds
- Designing and troubleshooting HPC interconnects
- Designing and maintaining HPC storage solutions
- Cybersecurity and data protection
- Cluster storage
Example paper ideas might be:
- Best practices for job scheduler configuration
- Advantages of cluster automation
- Managing software on HPC clusters
Calendar
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Workshop Submissions Open | April 9, 2018 |
| Workshop Submission Close |
August 19, 2018 NO EXTENSIONS |
| Reviews Sent | September 7, 2018 |
| Resubmission Open | September 7, 2018 |
| Resubmission Closed | September 27, 2018 |
| Acceptance Notifications | October 12, 2018 |
| Final Abstracts for Program Due | October 14, 2018 |
| Workshop | November 11, 2018 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM |
Organizing Committee
| Position | Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Chair | Alex Younts | Purdue University |
| Deputy Chair | David Clifton | Ansys |
| Program Committee Chair | Stephen Lien Harrell | Purdue University |
| Organizing Committee | John Blaas | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Andrew Howard | Microsoft | |
| David King | NCSA | |
| Paul Peltz | Los Alamos | |
| William Scullin | Argonne | |
| Jenett Tillotson | Purdue University | |
| Isaac Traxler | LSU |
Program Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| John Blaas | CU Boulder |
| David Clifton | ANSYS Inc. |
| Andrew Howard | Microsoft |
| David King | NCSA |
| Sean McGrath | Trinity College Dublin |
| Scott McMillan | NVidia Corporation |
| Paul Peltz Jr. | Los Alamos Natioanl Laboratory |
| Jeffrey Raymond | University of Pittsburgh |
| Prestom M. Smith | Purdue University |
| George Turner | Indiana University |
| Alex Younts | Purdue Uiversity |
Contact Information
Please send email to hpcsyspros.
Links
- HPC Sysadmin Mailing List - you should join!
- HPCSYSPROS Slack Invite
- pearc19