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Understanding HPC facilities users' behaviors and how computational resources are requested and utilized is not only crucial for the cluster productivity but also essential for designing and constructing future exascale HPC systems. This…

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High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems are among the most energy-intensive scientific facilities, with electric power consumption reaching and often exceeding 20 megawatts per installation. Unlike other major scientific infrastructures…

The High Performance Computing (HPC) field is witnessing a widespread adoption of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as co-processors for conventional homogeneous clusters. The adoption of prevalent Single- Program Multiple-Data (SPMD)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Teng Li , Vikram K. Narayana , Tarek El-Ghazawi

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Frédéric Magoulès , Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Jean-Christophe Léchenet , François Mayer , Haifa Ben Salem , Thomas Zhu

The continued growth of the computational capability of throughput processors has made throughput processors the platform of choice for a wide variety of high performance computing applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a prime…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Rachata Ausavarungnirun

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become a de facto solution for accelerating high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Understanding their memory error behavior is an essential step toward achieving efficient and reliable HPC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhu Zhu , Yu Sun , Dhatri Parakal , Bo Fang , Steven Farrell , Gregory H. Bauer , Brett Bode , Ian T. Foster , Michael E. Papka , William Gropp , Zhao Zhang , Lishan Yang

Cloud resource management is often modeled by two-dimensional bin packing with a set of items that correspond to tasks having fixed CPU and memory requirements. However, applications running in clouds are much more flexible: modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Bartłomiej Przybylski , Paweł Żuk , Krzysztof Rzadca

Power-constrained HPC systems increasingly run heterogeneous CPU--GPU applications under strict cluster-wide power limits. Existing cluster-wide power management policies rely on fair-share or utilization heuristics and do not capture…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhong Zheng , Michael E. Papka , Zhiling Lan

Many HPC applications suffer from a bottleneck in the shared caches, instruction execution units, I/O or memory bandwidth, even though the remaining resources may be underutilized. It is hard for developers and runtime systems to ensure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Felippe V. Zacarias , Vinicius Petrucci , Rajiv Nishtala , Paul Carpenter , Daniel Mossé

The aggregate power use of computing hardware is an important cost factor in scientific cluster and distributed computing systems. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) is a major example of such a distributed computing system, used…

Recently, businesses have started using MapReduce as a popular computation framework for processing large amount of data, such as spam detection, and different data mining tasks, in both public and private clouds. Two of the challenging…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-30 Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi , Javid Taheri , Reza Moraveji , Albert Y. Zomaya

Recently, businesses have started using MapReduce as a popular computation framework for processing large amount of data, such as spam detection, and different data mining tasks, in both public and private clouds. Two of the challenging…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi , Javid Taheri , Reza Moraveji , Albert Y. Zomaya

The increasing use and cost of high performance computing (HPC) requires new easy-to-use tools to enable HPC users and HPC systems engineers to transparently understand the utilization of resources. The MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing…

With high-performance computing systems now running at exascale, optimizing power-scaling management and resource utilization has become more critical than ever. This paper explores runtime power-capping optimizations that leverage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Maria Patrou , Thomas Wang , Wael Elwasif , Markus Eisenbach , Ross Miller , William Godoy , Oscar Hernandez

High performance computing (HPC) is undergoing significant changes. The emerging HPC applications comprise both compute- and data-intensive applications. To meet the intense I/O demand from emerging data-intensive applications, burst…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yuping Fan , Zhiling Lan , Paul Rich , William E. Allcock , Michael E. Papka , Brian Austin , David Paul

The Aurora supercomputer is an exascale-class system designed to tackle some of the most demanding computational workloads. Equipped with both High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and DDR memory, it provides unique trade-offs in performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Huda Ibeid , Vikram Narayana , Jeongnim Kim , Anthony Nguyen , Vitali Morozov , Ye Luo

Capability jobs (e.g., large, long-running tasks) and capacity jobs (e.g., small, short-running tasks) are two common types of workloads in high-performance computing (HPC). Different HPC systems are typically deployed to handle distinct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhong Zheng , Michael E. Papka , Zhiling Lan

HPC systems keep growing in size to meet the ever-increasing demand for performance and computational resources. Apart from increased performance, large scale systems face two challenges that hinder further growth: energy efficiency and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Ioannis Vardas , Manolis Ploumidis , Manolis Marazakis

In the fusion community, the use of high performance computing (HPC) has been mostly dominated by heavy-duty plasma simulations, such as those based on particle-in-cell and gyrokinetic codes. However, there has been a growing interest in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Diogo R. Ferreira

Collocating deep learning training tasks improves GPU utilization but risks resource contention, severe slowdowns, and out-of-memory (OOM) failures. Accurate memory estimation is essential for robust collocation, and GPU utilization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ehsan Yousefzadeh-Asl-Miandoab , Reza Karimzadeh , Danyal Yorulmaz , Bulat Ibragimov , Pınar Tözün