Key elements of creating a sustainable infrastructure environment for HPC systems
Speaker: Tabitha K. Samuel, Group Lead, HPC Operations group, National Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennesse.
Abstract:
Managing and effectively administering a HPC system is a complex affair. There are several pieces that have to work perfectly together to make for a reliable and secure, yet easy to use HPC system. There have been immense strides made in the field of system administration when it comes to HPC in the past few years.
In this talk I will be focusing on some key areas of administering a HPC system, namely the areas of configuration management, monitoring, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems, and advances in authentication mechanisms.
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee is one of the leading high performance computing centers for excellence in the United States. NICS’s flagship computing system, Kraken, the first academic computer to break the petaflop barrier, enabled researchers in numerous scientific arenas, from climate to materials science to astrophysics, to achieve breakthroughs not yet possible on other resources.
In this talk, I will also be drawing upon real world implementation examples from the administration of Kraken and other supercomputers subsequently deployed at NICS.
by UQ Research Computing Centre
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