Concepts
The project implements traditional services across the HHCC (Hamburg HPC Competence Center) and researches methods to improve the current state of the art in performance engineering:
Services
- Dissemination of knowledge, concepts and chances of performance engineering
- Web page: Hamburg HPC Competence Center (HHCC)
- Publication of success stories
- Cross references to regional HPC sites, consultants and material
- Education of performance engineering skills
- Workshop and online curses
- Pro-active feedback of job performance
- Support for performance analysis and optimization
- Co-development to evaluate promising concepts
Methods
- Competence management aims to identify key skills necessary for HPC
- Develop an HPC certification program
- Research methods to automatically create a knowledge base (link to existing knowledge)
- Cost-awareness allows predicting job/workflow execution costs with the help of models
- Benefit of new concepts assesses the potential of alternative architectures / software
- Develop models to predict costs for porting / benefit for users
- Part of general performance energineering support
- Success stories illustrate approaches, benefits and costs of selected optimizations