NCSI: HPC Performance Evaluation

Status	Completed
Mentor Name	Karen L. Karavanic
Mentor's XSEDE Affiliation	XSEDE empower, education, PCI & Coeus Cluster
Mentor Has Been in XSEDE Community	3-4 years
Project Title	HPC Performance Evaluation
Summary	This position will be assistant to the PPerfLab at Portland State. Specifically, the student will do test runs and test out portions of the Crux workflow critical path tool and other research efforts. This involves runs on the Coeus Cluster on campus, and learning performance measurement tools.
Job Description	Specifically, the student will do test runs and test out portions of the Crux workflow critical path tool. This involves runs on the Coeus Cluster on campus, and learning performance measurement tools. The student will work with the PI and also other students in the PPerfLab to accomplish this work.
Computational Resources	The PPerfLab linux cluster (Wyeast), the Coeus heterogeneous cluster at PSU, the NSF sponsored education testbed linux cluster, possibly other NSF resources as time allows.
Contribution to Community	The student will learn further about HPC applications, why they are important, and also directly be involved in developing a performance tool that might be installed in near future onto other XSEDE platforms.
Position Type	Intern
Training Plan	The student will be trained from documentation and direct meetings with students and PI, in teh use of the required tools.
Student Prerequisites/Conditions/Qualifications	At least one quarter of previous work to learn use of the linux cluster and at least one performance tool.
Duration	Quarter
Start Date	09/16/2021
End Date	12/15/2021