"Challenges and Opportunities in the HPC Systems Administration and the User Support"

Roman Baranowski

University of British Columbia

Roman Baranowski has been involved in HPC since 1991 and has been working as the UBC Site Lead for Compute Canada/WestGrid since 2003. In addition, Roman is a member of the Compute Canada Storage National Team and serves on the National Team: Simon Fraser University. His background is in Theoretical and Computational Physics and Chemistry with a PhD from Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Venkat Mahadevan

U

Venkat Mahadevan is a Systems Administrator with the Advanced Research Computing group at UBC. Prior to joining ARC, Venkat was heavily involved with E-mail security, anti-malware, and Identity & Access Management initiatives at UBC Information Technology. Prior to joining UBC, he worked as a Systems Administrator/Developer for various organizations supporting research in transport information systems, scientific visualization, and data management. He is a world traveler and has lived in various cities including Lusaka, Zug, New York, New Orleans, and Lethbridge before finally staying put in Vancouver. He is eager to help the UBC research community achieve their objectives. .

Abstract

In this talk we would like to talk about the current architectural  challenges in designing the modern HPC systems. The system administration challenges (access, monitoring, scalability, performance etc...) and approaches and... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Roman Baranowski (University of British Columbia)
  2. Venkat Mahadevan (U)

Topic Area

Research Computing: Advanced Research Computing

Session

D3-S5-10 » Wednesday Session 5 - 10 (15:30 - Wednesday, 20th June, HC 114)

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