HUST 2025
12th International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools
Held in conjunction with Supercomputing: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
Overview
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 twelfth 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.
Our workshop is scheduled on Sunday, Nov 16, 1:30 – 5:00pm CT in St. Louis, MO USA as part of the SC25 conference.
Join the discussions on HUST Community Slack
Contact: Elsa Gonsiorowski
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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
- Storage tools and strategies for efficient use
- Supporting Hadoop and Spark clusters for Big Data
- ML, AI, and other Data Analysis workflows
- Establishing baseline configuration efforts for HPC
- Software tools for system testing and monitoring
- Supporting complex HPC environments, e.g., hardware heterogeneity
- Documentation: creating, maintaining and auto-updating
Submission
We invite authors to submit original, high-quality work with sufficient background material to be clear to the HPC community.
Format
All submissions should be made electronically through the SC25 Submissions website.
Papers should be submitted as PDF file using the ACM proceedings two-column template (sigconf option for LaTeX users).
Camera-ready production will be handled by TAPS.
We kindly refer authors to the necessary templates.
Submissions must be double blind, i.e., authors should remove their names, institutions or hints found in references to earlier work. When discussing past work, they need to refer to themselves in the third person, as if they were discussing another researcher’s work. Furthermore, authors must identify any conflict of interest with the PC chair or PC members.
We are accepting:
- Full papers, 5-12 pages including figures, tables, and references. Full papers will be included in the published proceedings.
- Short papers, 2-4 pages including figures, tables, and references Short papers will not be included in the published proceedings.