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Architects, administrators, and users of modern high-performance computing (HPC) systems strive to meet goals of energy, resource, and application efficiency. Optimizing for any or all of these can only be accomplished through analysis of appropriate system and application information. While application performance analysis tools can provide application performance insight, the associated overhead typically decreases application performance while the tools are being employed. Thus they are typically used for application performance tuning but not for production application runs. Likewise traditional system monitoring tools in conjunction with analysis tools can provide insight into run-time system resource utilization. However, due to overhead and impact concerns, such tools are often run with collection periods on order of minutes or only used to solve problems and not during normal HPC system operation. There are currently few, if any, tools that provide continuous, low impact, high fidelity system monitoring, analysis, and feedback that meet the increasingly urgent resource efficiency optimization needs of HPC systems.
Modern processors and operating systems being used in HPC systems expose a wealth of information about how system resources, including energy, are being utilized. Lightweight tools that gather and analyze this information could provide feedback, including run-time, to increase application performance; optimize system resource utilization; and drive more efficient future HPC system design.
The goal of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for researchers to exchange new ideas, research, techniques, and tools in the area of HPC monitoring, analysis, and feedback as it relates to increasing efficiency with respect to energy, resource utilization, and application run-time.
Keynote Speaker: William (Bill) T. C. Kramer, NCSA Blue Waters Director and PI
Failure and Resiliency in the Shadow of Exascale – Will our our Current Assumptions Take us in the Right Direction?
Panel: Accessible Analytics and Visualizations
Topics
Data collection, transport, and storage
- Design of systems and frameworks for HPC monitoring which address HPC requirements such as:
- Extreme scalability
- Run time data collection and transport
- Analysis on actionable timescales
- Feedback on actionable timescales
- Minimal application impact
- Extraction and evaluation of resource utilization and state information from current and next generation components
- Monitoring methodologies and results for all HPC system components and support infrastructure (e.g., compute, network, storage, power, facilities)
Analysis of monitored data and system information
- Extraction of meaningful information from raw data, such as system and resource health, contention, or bottlenecks
- Methodologies and applications of analysis algorithms on large scale HPC system data
- Visualization techniques for large scale HPC data (addressing size, timescales, presentation within a meaningful context)
- Evaluation of correlative relationships between system state and application performance via use of monitored system data
Response to and utilization of processed data and system information
- Mechanisms for feedback and response to applications and system software (e.g., informing schedulers, down-clocking CPUs)
- HPC application design and implementation that take advantage of monitored system data (e.g., dynamic task placement or rank-to-core mapping)
- System-level and Job-level feedback and responses to monitored system data
- Job scheduling and allocation based on monitored system information (e.g. contention for storage or network resources)
- Integration of system and facilities data for system and site operational decisions
- Use of monitored system data for evaluation of future systems specifications and requirements
- Use of monitored system data for validation of systems simulations
Experience reports and System operations
- Design and implementation of monitoring tools as part of HPC operations
- Experiences with monitoring and analysis methodologies and tools in HPC applications
- Note this is not meant to include application performance analysis tools such as open|speedshop or craypat
- Experiences with monitoring and analysis tools for HPC systems specification/selection
- Sub-optimal approaches taken because there currently isn’t another way (include associated gap analysis)
- How not to do it, with explanations, benchmarks, or analysis of code to save the rest of us from trying it again
Important dates (AOE):
- Abstract Due:
Jan 9, 2016JAN 16, 2016 - Paper Due (contingent on abstract submission by Jan 16):
Jan 16, 2016JAN 23, 2016CLOSED - Notification:
Feb 15, 2016 - Camera Ready:
Mar 7, 2016 Updated - Workshop: May 27, 2016
HPCMASPA 2016 will be held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS (May 23-27, 2016 in Chicago, IL)
Format
HPCMASPA 2016 will be a full day and will consist of talks from refereed papers, a panel discussion with representative researchers and practitioners, and a keynote speaker.
Talks from refereed papers
HPCMASPA 2016 welcomes submissions of original work not previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Proceedings of the workshop will be distributed at the conference and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Categories:
- Full length technical papers (preferred) addressing completed research, best practice whitepapers, and other in-depth research, etc. 10 pages max, including references. 30 min presentation.
- Short technical papers addressing timely topics such as work in progress, experience reports, and tool surveys, etc. 5 pages max, including references. 20 min presentation.
Guidelines:
- Submissions must be compliant with the IEEE format for conference proceedings. LaTex and Word templates can be found at the IEEE IPDPS 2016 website.
- Web-based submissions through EasyChair. PDF's only.
- Submissions must be in English.
- Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with submission.
- Submissions will be evaluated on their technical soundness, significance, presentation, originality of work, and relevance and interest to the workshop scope.
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