Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User

Wilkinson, Sean; Maheshwari, Ketan; Ferreira Da Silva, Rafael

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08751-6_37

Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User

Conference · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08751-6_37· OSTI ID:1875360

^[1]; ^[1]; ^[1]

ORNL

We observe and analyze usage of the login nodes of the leadership class Summit supercomputer from the perspective of an ordinary user—not a system administrator—by periodically sampling user activities (job queues, running processes, etc.) for two full years (2020–2021). Our findings unveil key usage patterns that evidence misuse of the system, including gaming the policies, impairing I/O performance, and using login nodes as a sole computing resource. Our analysis highlights observed patterns for the execution of complex computations (workflows), which are key for processing large-scale applications.

Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (SC-21)

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1875360

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (13)

HPC Workload Characterization Using Feature Selection and Clustering Bang, Jiwoo; Kim, Chungyong; Wu, Kesheng HPDC '20: The 29th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Systems and Network Telemetry and Analytics https://doi.org/10.1145/3391812.3396270	conference	June 2020
Data preparation for data mining Zhang, Shichao; Zhang, Chengqi; Yang, Qiang Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 17, Issue 5-6 https://doi.org/10.1080/713827180	journal	May 2003
Race to Exascale Dongarra, Jack; Gottlieb, Steven; Kramer, William T. C. Computing in Science & Engineering, Vol. 21, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2018.2882574	journal	January 2019
Looking at data Feitelson, Dror G. Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536092	conference	April 2008
Towards understanding HPC users and systems: A NERSC case study Rodrigo, Gonzalo P.; Östberg, P. -O.; Elmroth, Erik Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 111 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2017.09.002	journal	January 2018
Characterization and identification of HPC applications at leadership computing facility Liu, Zhengchun; Lewis, Ryan; Kettimuthu, Rajkumar ICS '20: 2020 International Conference on Supercomputing, Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing https://doi.org/10.1145/3392717.3392774	conference	June 2020
A characterization of workflow management systems for extreme-scale applications Ferreira da Silva, Rafael; Filgueira, Rosa; Pietri, Ilia Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 75 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.02.026	journal	October 2017
Towards Exascale Computing for High Energy Physics: The ATLAS Experience at ORNL Ananthraj, V.; De, K.; Jha, S. 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science) https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2018.00086	conference	October 2018
GROMACS: Fast, flexible, and free Van Der Spoel, David; Lindahl, Erik; Hess, Berk Journal of Computational Chemistry, Vol. 26, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.20291	journal	January 2005
AI-driven multiscale simulations illuminate mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 spike dynamics Casalino, Lorenzo; Dommer, Abigail C.; Gaieb, Zied The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications https://doi.org/10.1177/10943420211006452	journal	April 2021
Understanding User Behavior: From HPC to HTC Schlagkamp, Stephan; Silva, Rafael Ferreira da; Deelman, Ewa Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 80 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2016.05.397	journal	January 2016
Characterizing a High Throughput Computing Workload: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment at LHC Silva, Rafael Ferreira da; Rynge, Mats; Juve, Gideon Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 51 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.190	journal	January 2015
A Year in the Life of a Parallel File System Lockwood, Glenn K.; Snyder, Shane; Wang, Teng SC18: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2018.00077	conference	November 2018

Similar Records

Pseudonymized User-Perspective Summit Login Node Data for 2020 and 2021

Dataset · Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · OSTI ID:1866372

Usage Pattern Analysis for the Summit Login Nodes

Conference · Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2022 · OSTI ID:1923179

Workflow Submit Nodes as a Service on Leadership Class Systems

Conference · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · OSTI ID:1665960

Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User

Citation Formats

References (13)

Similar Records

Related Subjects