Supercomputing centers exist to drive scientific discovery by supporting researchers in computational science fields. To make users more productive in the complex HPC environment, HPC centers employ user support teams. These teams serve many roles, from setting up accounts, to consulting on math libraries and code optimization, to managing HPC software stacks. Often, support teams struggle to adequately support scientists. HPC environments are extremely complex, and combined with the complexity of multi-user installations, exotic hardware, and maintaining research software, supporting HPC users can be extremely demanding. With the fourth HUST workshop, we will continue to provide a necessary forum for system administrators, user support team members, tool developers, policy makers and end users. We will provide a forum to discuss support issues and we will provide a publication venue for current support developments. Best practices, user support tools, and any ideas to streamline user support at supercomputing centers are in scope.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Defining and customising the user environment
Software tools for system testing and monitoring
Software build and installation tools
Tools and frameworks for using system performance analysis tools
Workflow and pipeline tools
Collaborative development tools
Novel HPC environments: cloud, support for containers
Supporting Hadoop and Spark clusters for Big Data
Establishing baseline configuration efforts for HPC
Documentation: creating, maintaining and auto-updating
11月12日
2017
会议日期
注册截止日期
2016年11月13日 美国 Salt Lake City,USA
2016年第三届国际高性能计算用户支持工具研讨会2015年11月20日 美国
第二次国际HPC用户支持工具研讨会
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