User Environment Tracking and Problem Detection with XALT
- ORNL
- Texas Advanced Computing Center
This work improves our understanding of individual users software needs, then leverages that understanding to help stakeholders conduct business in a more efficient, effective, and systematic way. The product, XALT, builds on work that is already improving the user experience and enhancing support programs for thousands of users on twelve supercomputers across the United States and Europe. XALT will instrument individual jobs on high-end computers to generate a picture of the compilers, libraries, and other software that users need to run their jobs successfully. It will highlight the products our researchers need and do not need, and alert users and support staff to the root causes of software configuration issues as soon as the problems occur. A key objective of this work is generating the information needed to improve efficiency and effectiveness for an extensive community of stakeholders including users, sponsoring institutions, support organizations, and development teams. Efficiency, effectiveness, and responsible stewardship each require a clear picture of users needs. XALT is an important step in the quest to achieve that clarity.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; Work for Others (WFO)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1286770
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: First Workshop on HPC Tools for User Support (HUST14) Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, New Orleans, LA, USA, 20141121, 20141121
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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