DOE OSTI · 1975117
Quantifying the Impact of Advanced Web Platforms on High Performance Computing Usage
Abstract
The deployment of Science Gateways for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems can alter long-accepted usage patterns on supercomputing systems in positive ways as an ever-increasing number of users migrate their workflows to HPC systems. Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has deployed two separate advanced web platforms, Open OnDemand and NICE DCV, for integration with HPC resources to improve web accessibility for HPC users. Researchers conducted a multi-year study on how HPC usage pat- terns changed in the presence of these platforms. This work reports the results of that study and quantifies the observed impacts, including adoption by visualization and Jupyter Notebook/Lab users, decreased job submission friction, rapid uptake of HPC by Windows users, and increased overall system utilization. The most significant impacts were observed from the deployment of Open OnDemand, and this work also identifies some best practices for Open OnDemand deployment for HPC datacenters.
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Rothwell, Bradlee Hope, Sgambati, Matthew R, Biggs, Brandon Samuel, Evans, Garrick J, Anderson, Matthew William. 2022-07-08. Quantifying the Impact of Advanced Web Platforms on High Performance Computing Usage. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530758
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