TY - GEN
T1 - Tales from the trenches
T2 - 2nd International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools, HUST 2015
AU - James, Doug
AU - McLay, Robert
AU - Liu, Si
AU - Todd Evans, R.
AU - Barth, William L.
AU - Lamas-Linares, Antia
AU - Budiardja, Reuben
AU - Fahey, Mark
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/11/15
Y1 - 2015/11/15
N2 - Those participating in HUST '15 appreciate the potential value of high quality tools and technologies intended to en-hance the user experience on large-scale computers. Given the changing landscape of large-scale computing, they likely also feel a renewed sense of urgency associated with the emerging needs of an increasingly diverse user base. Do user support tools, however, really make a difierence for users and those who support them? Are they making a difierence now? This paper is one response to these questions: it de-scribes five brief case studies in which the authors employed software tools to help address problems and issues associ-ated with users' needs on the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. The paper high-lights the authors' thoughts on their experiences, including a few deliberately provocative assertions intended to invite reection and discussion.
AB - Those participating in HUST '15 appreciate the potential value of high quality tools and technologies intended to en-hance the user experience on large-scale computers. Given the changing landscape of large-scale computing, they likely also feel a renewed sense of urgency associated with the emerging needs of an increasingly diverse user base. Do user support tools, however, really make a difierence for users and those who support them? Are they making a difierence now? This paper is one response to these questions: it de-scribes five brief case studies in which the authors employed software tools to help address problems and issues associ-ated with users' needs on the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. The paper high-lights the authors' thoughts on their experiences, including a few deliberately provocative assertions intended to invite reection and discussion.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85009192449
U2 - 10.1145/2834996.2834998
DO - 10.1145/2834996.2834998
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85009192449
T3 - Proceedings of HUST 2015: 2nd International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools - Held in conjunction with SC 2015: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
BT - Proceedings of HUST 2015
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 15 November 2015
ER -