HUST-17: HPC User Support Tools Colorado Convention Center Denver, CO, United States, November 12-17, 2017 |
Conference website | http://sc17.supercomputing.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hust17 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 10, 2017 |
Submission deadline | September 10, 2017 |
Workshop Website | http://hust17.github.io |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hust17 |
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.
Submission Guidelines
We invite authors to submit original, high-quality work with sufficient background material to be clear to the HPC community.
Format: Submissions are limited to 10 pages in the ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and your appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The margins and font sizes should not be modified. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
List of Topics
- defining and customising the user environment
- software build and installation tools
- tools and frameworks for using system performance analysis tools
- workflow and pipeline tools
- collaboration tools
- novel environments: cloud, support for Docker.
- supporting Hadoop and Spark clusters for Big Data
- establishing baseline configuration efforts for HPC
- software tools for system testing and monitoring
- documentation: creating, maintaining and auto-updating
Committees
Program Committee
- Daniel Ahlin, PDC HPC Center, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Erik Engquist, Rice University, USA
- Wolfgang Frings, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
- Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Andy Georges, Ghent University, Belgium
- Christopher Harris, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia
- Vera Hansper, CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland
- Paul Kolano, NASA, USA
- John C. Linford, ParaTools, USA
- Dave Montoya, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- Randy Schauer, Raytheon Company, USA
- Gary B. Skouson, Pacific Northwest Nation Laboratory, USA
- William Scullin, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Karen Tomko, Ohio Supercomputing Center, USA
Organizing committee
- Chris Bording - general chair
- Todd Gamblin - program committee co-chair
- Olli-Pekka Lehto - program committee co-chair
Publication
HUST17 proceedings will be published in both IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital library through collaboration with SIGHPC-ACM/IEEE
Venue
SC17: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
Denver, CO, USA
12 November 2017
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to chris.bording@pawsey.org.au