Quick Information
The HPCSYSPROS workshop has moved to all virtual this year, we will be using the zoom platform provided by SC but will not have a physical room to meet in at the conference.
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 Sixth 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.
Proceedings
https://github.com/HPCSYSPROS/Workshop21
Invited Speaker
Evan Burness will be presenting Technical underpinnings of Azure HPC & AI supercomputing
This talk will provide an overview of Azure HPC & AI supercomputing architectures, their technical underpinnings and capabilities for large scale HPC workloads, and how Azure distributes and supports these resources globally to support one of the largest customer and user bases in the world.
Evan Burness is a Principal Program in Microsoft Azure and the lead for HPC-optimized Virtual Machine programs. He focuses on the technical architecture, roadmap, and strategy of Azure’s H-series VMs optimized for scalable HPC workloads.
Schedule
All times in Central Time
| Start | End | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 9 AM | 9:12 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:12 AM | 9:28 AM | Lightning Talk: Enabling Research and Education through the Geddes Composable Platform, Erik Gough (Purdue University) |
| 9:28 AM | 9:44 AM | Lightning Talk: Ookami – The First Year of a Computing Technology Testbed, Eva Siegmann (Stony Brook University) |
| 9:44 AM | 10:00 AM | Lightning Talk: Kubernetes with Open OnDemand using Kyverno, Trey Dockendorf (Ohio Supercomputing Center) |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | 11:10 AM | Kubernetes for HPC Administration, Samuel Knight (Sandia National Laboratory) |
| 11:10 AM | 12:30 PM | Panel: Benchmarking, Hai Ah Nam (NERSC), Rory Kelly (NCAR), Greg Bauer (NCSA), Paul Ferrell (LANL) |
| 12:30 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Invited Talk: Technical underpinnings of Azure HPC & AI supercomputing, Evan Burness (Microsoft) |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 3:30 PM | 3:45 PM | Lightning Talk: Chameleon Cloud, Michael Sherman (University of Chicago) |
| 3:45 PM | 4:00 PM | Lightning Talk: Storing of Secrets for Retrieval by Configuration Management, David King (NCSA) |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | War stories, pain points, and open discussion |
| 5:00 PM | 5:30 PM | Closing Remarks and Traxler Family Award for Community Service |
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
- Cybersecurity and data protection
- Performance tuning/Benchmarking
- Resource manager and job scheduler configuration
- Monitoring/Mean-time-to-failure/ROI/Resource utilization
- HPC storage solutions
- Composable infrastructure and containers
- Elastic workloads or optimizations for workload types
- Virtualization/Clouds
- Web-based cluster front ends
- Designing and troubleshooting HPC interconnects
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 | May 10, 2021 |
| Workshop Submission Close | EXTENDED September 26, 2021 |
| Reviews Sent | October 11, 2021 |
| Acceptance Notification | October 18, 2021 |
Organizing Committee
| Position | Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop Chair | John Blaas | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Program Chair | Jeremy Enos | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| Organizing Committee | ||
| Matt Bidwell | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
| Todd Evans | Texas Advanced Computing Center | |
| Stephen Lien Harrell | Texas Advanced Comptuing Center | |
| Brian Haymore | University of Utah | |
| Betsy Hillery | Purdue University | |
| Adam Hough | Shell | |
| Andy Howard | Microsoft | |
| Jenett Tillotson | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Program Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Allan | Sandia National Laboratory |
| Mark Dalton | Lambda Labs Inc. |
| Tina Declerck | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Matthew Ezell | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Karen Fernsler | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Joshi Fullop | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| James Glasgow | Illinois University |
| Bilel Hadri | KAUST |
| David King | University of Illinois |
| Mark Klein | Swiss National Supercomputing Centre |
| Stephen Leak | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Hon Wai Leong | DDN |
| Alex Younts | Purdue University |
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 SC20 Workshop Proceedings
Contact Information
If you need to contact us, send email to SIGHPC SYSPROS.
Links
- SC HPC Syspros Mailing List - you should join!
- Email us to get an invite to the SIGHPC SYSPROS Slack team