SimplifyHPC: A Framework to Simplify HPC Codes Deployment

Speaker: Ananta Tiwari, EP Analytics
October 28, 2021

Presentation

Abstract

SimplifyHPC is a desktop application that brings together all the tools necessary for managing complex High-Performance Computing (HPC) simulations – input creation, data transfer, visualization, job submission, and job monitoring. SimplifyHPC automates all the tasks around running simulations on on-premises and cloud-based HPC resources; for cloud-based executions, SimplifyHPC automates resource management and data transfer. In this talk, Dr. Tiwari will describe the framework and showcase its current capabilities with GEOS-Chem as a target application. GEOS-Chem is an atmospheric chemistry code that is of high importance to NASA. The talk will demonstrate how SimplifyHPC can make managing this complex code seamless both on on-premises and on AWS clusters, all from a desktop application.

EP Analytics is developing SimplifyHPC under the support for a NASA SBIR Phase I award. A short 70-second video that describes the framework can be found on YouTube. EP Analytics is looking forward to getting feature requests and application portfolio extension for Phase II development.

Biography

Ananta Tiwari is the Vice President of Research at EP Analytics and the Principal Investigator for this project. His HPC experience spans tool-based performance analysis, code optimization/auto-tuning, machine learning based performance modeling, and developing data management and visualization techniques. Dr. Tiwari received his doctorate in Computer Science from University of Maryland at College Park under the mentorship of Dr. Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth.

Ananta Tiwari's Academic Publications

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