Quick Information
Supercomputing systems present complex challenges to personnel who design, deploy and maintain these systems. Standing up these systems and keeping them running require novel solutions that are unique to high performance computing. The success of any supercomputing center depends on stable and reliable systems, and HPC Systems Professionals are crucial to that success.
The Fifth Annual HPC Systems Professionals Workshop will bring together systems administrators, systems architects, and systems analysts in order to share best practices, discuss cutting-edge technologies, and advance the state-of-the-practice for HPC systems. This CFP requests that participants submit either papers, slide presentations, or 5-minute Lightning Talk proposals along with reproducible artifacts (code segments, test suites, configuration management templates) which can be made available to the community for use.
Keynote Speaker
Atsuya Uno will be presenting Introduction of Supercomputer Fugaku
Fugaku is the most powerful supercomputer currently deployed ranking #1 on the TOP500 list as of June 2020. Powered by Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX SoC, becoming the first number one system on the list to be powered by ARM processors. In single or further reduced precision, which are often used in machine learning and AI applications, Fugaku’s peak performance is over 1,000 petaflops (1 exaflops). The new system is installed at RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan.
Dr. Atsuya Uno is a unit leader of System Operations and Development Unit in Operations and Computer Technologies Division at RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS). He joined RIKEN in 2007, and he was involved in the development and the operation of the K computer. His responsibilities at R-CCS are the operaiton of the supercopmuter Fugaku.
Schedule
Check out our proceedings.
All times in Eastern Standard Time.
| Start | End | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | 10:05 AM | Welcome |
| 10:05 AM | 10:40 AM | Keynote: Introduction of Supercomputer Fugaku, Atsuya Uno, Riken Center for Computational Science |
| 10:40 AM | 10:50 AM | Site Report: NVIDIA, Adam DeConinck, NVIDIA |
| 10:50 AM | 11:00 AM | Site Report: MARCC, Jaime Combariza, Johns Hopkins University |
| 11:00 AM | 11:10 AM | Site Report: NREL, Matt Bidwell, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| 11:10 AM | 11:20 AM | Site Report: INL, Ben Nickell, Idaho National Laboratory |
| 11:20 AM | 11:25 AM | Lightning Talk: Setup and management of a small national computational facility: What we’ve learned the first 10 years, George Tsouloupas, Thekla Loizou, Panayiotis Vorkas, The Cyprus Institute |
| 11:25 AM | 11:30 AM | Lightning Talk: Case Study of TCP/IP tunings for High Performance Interconnects, Jenett Tillotson , National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| 11:30 AM | 11:35 AM | Lightning Talk: NGC Container Environment Modules, Scott McMillan , NVIDIA |
| 11:35 AM | 11:50 AM | Break |
| 11:50 AM | 12:10 PM | Paper: Application Performance in the Frontera Acceptance Process, Richard Todd Evans, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin |
| 12:10 PM | 12:30 PM | Paper: Parallelized Data Replication of Multi-Petabyte Storage Systems, Honwai Leong, Daniel Richards, Andrew Janke, Stephen Kolmann, Data Direct Networks and The University of Sydney |
| 12:30 PM | 12:50 PM | Paper: Log-Based Identification, Classification, and Behavior Prediction of HPC Applications, Ryan D. Lewis, Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Michael E. Papka, Northern Illinois University and Argonne National Laboratory |
| 12:50 PM | 1:10 PM | Paper: Modernizing the HPC System Software Stack, Benjamin S. Allen, Matthew A. Ezell, Paul Peltz, Douglas Jacobsen, Cory Lueninghoener, J. Lowell Wofford, Eric Roman, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, |
| 1:10 PM | 1:50 PM | Panel: Cluster Management, Reese Baird (OpenHPC), Andrew Bruno (University of Buffalo), Erik Jacobson (HPE) |
| 1:50 PM | 1:55 PM | Traxler Family Award for Community Service |
| 1:55 PM | 2:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
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 29, 2020 |
| Workshop Submission Close | September 9, 2020 |
| Reviews Sent | September 18, 2020 |
| Acceptance Notification | October 2, 2020 |
Organizing Committee
| Position | Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop Chair | Matt Bidwell | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| Program Chair | Gary Jackson | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Organizing Committee | ||
| John Blaas | National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
| David Clifton | Ansys | |
| Stephen Lien Harrell | Texas Advanced Comptuing Center | |
| John Legato | National Institutes of Health | |
| Kurt Maier | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| William Scullin | Laboratory for Laser Energetics | |
| Jenett Tillotson | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Program Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Jonathon Anderson | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Adam DeConinck | NVIDIA |
| Violeta Holmes | University of Huddersfield |
| Gary Jackson | John Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory |
| John Legato | National Institutes of Health |
| Ti Leggett | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Hon Wai Leong | DDN |
| Scott McMillian | NVIDIA |
| Ken Schmidt | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| William Scullin | University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics |
| Jenett Tillotson | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Publication Information
All accepted papers and artifacts will be published on GitHub and archived with a DOI in Zenodo. You can view last years accepted papers here HPCSYSPROS SC19 Workshop Proceedings
Contact Information
If you need to contact us, send email to SIGHPC SYSPROS.
Links
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