Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User

Sean R. Wilkinson; Ketan Maheshwari; Rafael Ferreira da Silva

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

Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User

Sean R. Wilkinson, Ketan Maheshwari, Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Workflow and Ecosystem Services

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Science - ICCS 2022, 22nd International Conference, Proceedings
Editors	Derek Groen, Clélia de Mulatier, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Peter M.A. Sloot, Maciej Paszynski, Jack J. Dongarra
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	516-529
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9783031087509
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08751-6_37
State	Published - 2022
Event	22nd Annual International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2022 - London, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 21 2022 → Jun 23 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13350 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	22nd Annual International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2022
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	06/21/22 → 06/23/22

Funding

This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The publisher acknowledges the US government license to provide public access under the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). Acknowledgments. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. We acknowledge Suzanne Parete-Koon for early brainstorming of some of the ideas presented here. We thank Scott Atchley, Bronson Messer, and Sarp Oral for their thorough revision of this paper.

Keywords

High Performance Computing
User behavior
Workload characterization

Access to Document

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

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Wilkinson, S. R., Maheshwari, K., & Silva, R. F. D. (2022). Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User. In D. Groen, C. de Mulatier, V. V. Krzhizhanovskaya, P. M. A. Sloot, M. Paszynski, & J. J. Dongarra (Eds.), Computational Science - ICCS 2022, 22nd International Conference, Proceedings (pp. 516-529). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13350 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08751-6_37

Wilkinson, Sean R. ; Maheshwari, Ketan ; Silva, Rafael Ferreira da. / Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User. Computational Science - ICCS 2022, 22nd International Conference, Proceedings. editor / Derek Groen ; Clélia de Mulatier ; Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya ; Peter M.A. Sloot ; Maciej Paszynski ; Jack J. Dongarra. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 516-529 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Wilkinson, SR , Maheshwari, K & Silva, RFD 2022, Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User. in D Groen, C de Mulatier, VV Krzhizhanovskaya, PMA Sloot, M Paszynski & JJ Dongarra (eds), Computational Science - ICCS 2022, 22nd International Conference, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13350 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 516-529, 22nd Annual International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2022, London, United Kingdom, 06/21/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08751-6_37

Unveiling User Behavior on Summit Login Nodes as a User. / Wilkinson, Sean R.; Maheshwari, Ketan; Silva, Rafael Ferreira da.
Computational Science - ICCS 2022, 22nd International Conference, Proceedings. ed. / Derek Groen; Clélia de Mulatier; Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya; Peter M.A. Sloot; Maciej Paszynski; Jack J. Dongarra. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 516-529 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13350 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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