HPCF Usage Stats Posted

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 08:36:08 -0500
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Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students,

User support in collaboration with system administrators have developed visual representation of monthly usage levels of taki's CPU and GPU clusters. You can find this data at hpcf.umbc.edu under the Research tab, where it will be updated every month.

The raw data are in units of core-hours for the CPU cluster and GPU-hours for the GPU cluster, separated by architecture denoted by the year of acquisition. Stacked bar charts add up to the total available hours, while bar charts and line plots show the percentage of use on each architecture. Analysis by most active PI groups are shown in various styles including line graphs.

The visuals show that decommissioning the 2009 CPU nodes in October did not change the usage levels. They also show that usage levels saw a very precipitous drop after spring break 2020 and that research productivity has recovered fully since then. This goes along with continued increase in use of the 2018 hardware in the CPU cluster. The analysis of most active PI groups indicates shifts over time and brings out that most groups use either the CPU or the GPU cluster.

As regular reminder, please send me references to publications! We can also post other newsworthy stories here, so feel free to contact me.

Matthias Gobbert, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, gobbert@umbc.edu

(Chair of the HPCF Governance Committee and PI of the MRI grants)