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.

Our workshop is scheduled on Friday, Nov 22, 8:30 – 12:00 ET in Atlanta, GA USA as part of the SC24 conference.

Workshop proceedings are now available.

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Contact: Elsa Gonsiorowski

Program

HUST24 Workshop Program

HUST24 will be in person workshop as part of SC24, please join us in Atlanta! Speakers and participants are reminded to adhere to the SC code of conduct.

Friday November 22, 2024

8:30-8:40am EST

  • HUST Introduction

8:40am-9:10am EST

  • Establishing a High-Performance and Productive Ecosystem for Distributed Execution of Python Functions Using Globus Compute
  • Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Yadu Babuji, Josh Bryan, Kyle Chard, Ryan Chard, Ben Clifford, Ian Foster, Lev Gorenstein, Kevin Hunter Kesling, Chris Janidlo, Daniel Katz, Reid Mello, J. Gregory Pauloski, Lei Wang

9:10am-9:40am EST

  • Experiences in Managing High-performance Computing Management and Support Tools while Upgrading a Campus Cluster
  • Yuwu Chen, Trevor Cooper, Christopher Irving, Mahidhar Tatineni, Nicole Wolter, Dmitry Mishin, Subhashini Sivagnanam

9:40am-10:00am EST

  • HUST Community Survey
  • Elsa Gonsiorowski

10:00am-10:30am EST

  • Morning Break

10:30am-11:0 0am EST

  • CANARI: A Monitoring Framework for Cluster Analysis and Node Assessment for Resource Integrity
  • Ryan DeRue, Jacob Verburgt

11:00am-11:30am EST

  • A Hierarchical Deep Learning Approach for Predicting Job Queue Times in HPC Systems
  • FNU Ashish, Sarah Rodenbeck, Austin Lovell, Philip Wisniewski

11:30am-12:00pm EST

  • HPCAdvisor: A Tool for Assisting Users in Selecting HPC Resources in the Cloud
  • Marco A. S. Netto
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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