Fifth Workshop on Interactive High-Performance Computing

Interactive exploration and analysis of large data sets, intelligent simulation workflows that combine interactive analysis and AI techniques with modeling and simulation, interactive preparation and debugging of large-scale scientific simulations, in-situ visualization, and application steering are all compelling scenarios for High Performance Computing systems. However, a range of technical, organizational, and sociological challenges must be overcome to make these interactive workflows mainstream in HPC centers: What simulation scenarios or problem domains can benefit most from interactivity? How can we simplify the toolchain? What center policies are needed to support highly interactive workflows? The goal of this workshop is to bring together domain scientists, tool developers, and HPC center administrators to identify the scientific impact and technical challenges of highly interactive access to HPC resources. This year, we are allocating a portion of the workshop to draft a position paper on the state of the practice of interactive HPC. This paper will explore the opportunities and challenges from the perspective of users, administrators, and system technologies; overview significant accomplishments in research demonstrations, and prototypes; and discuss future research directions for interactive HPC.

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Organizers:

• Albert Reuther (MIT LLSC)
• Michael Ringenburg (Microsoft)
• Rollin Thomas (NERSC)