HUST 2024

11th 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 eleventh 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.

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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.
  • 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 SC24 Submissions website. Papers should be submitted as PDF file using the IEEE proceedings template. 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, 6-12 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.

Dates

Important Dates

Submissions Open: July 15, 2024

Submissions Deadline: August 7, 2024 August 2, 2024

Acceptance notifications: September 6, 2024

Camera-ready papers: September 27, 2024

Workshop: November 22, 2024

Committees

Organizing Committee

Program Committee

  • David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  • Jane Herriman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  • Guangzhen Jin, Purdue University, USA
  • Vasileios Karakasis, NVIDIA, Switzerland
  • Paul Kolano, NASA, USA
  • Geoffrey Lentner, Purdue University, USA
  • Todd Raeker, University of Michigan, USA
  • Nannan Shan, Purdue University, USA
  • Abhinav Thota, Indiana University, USA
  • Alex Younts, Purdue University, USA
History

Links to Past HUST Workshop Proceedings

HUST2023 Workshop.

HUST2022 Workshop.

HUST2021 Workshop.

HUST2020 Workshop.

HUST2019 Workshop.

HUST2018 (Program)

HUST2017 Workshop.

HUST2016 Workshop.

HUST2015 Workshop.

HUST2014 Workshop.

Community

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