High Performance Computing Intern Showcase
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- Julie Wiens
![2023 class photo](../_assets/images/hpc-interns-23.jpg)
2023 class photo (LA-UR-23-29036).
The 2024 HPC - SI - USRC Showcase will take place on Thursday, August 8, 2024 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the J.R. Oppenheimer Study Center in the Jemez and Cochiti rooms with a poster session from 11:00 to 1:00 in the Santa Clara room. The abstracts and presentations will be available soon. Please visit this page often for updates.
Agenda (pdf)
2024 Showcase Presentations
Presentation Session (coming soon)
Poster Session (coming soon)
2023 Showcase Archive
An archive of last years presentations and posters are available below.
Presentation Session — 8:30 - 12:00
- Benchmarking Effects of Erasure Scheme and MPI Configuration on MarFS Throughput — Janya Budaraju, Paul Karhnak, Zach Snyder
- Charliecloud’s Successful Prototype Integration with Slurm: A Promising Approach with Some Strings Attached — Layton McCafferty, Nicholas Volpe, Hank Wikle
- Monitoring Clusters Using Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) — Weston Cadena, Alexis Ng, M. Aiden Phillips
- Evaluating Lustre Network Performance over InfiniBand and RoCE — David Medin, Benjamin Schuelter, Matthew Vandeberg
- Seeing the trees for the forest: Describing HPC Filesystems with the Grand Unified File-Index (GUFI) — Jenna Kline
- Development of a Capacity ON Demand User Interaction Toolkit (CONDUIT) Job Launch Mechanism — Christa Collins
- Post-Exascale Star Product Networks and Allreduce Spanning Trees — Aleyah Dawkins
- Creating, Debugging, and Optimizing Roles in Shasta Keycloak for Improved Administrator Privilege Separation — Airam Flores
- A year in the life of a charliecloud developer — Lucas Caudill
- Improving MPI with Rust — Jacob Tronge
- Detecting Spatter in Laser Powder Bed Fusion with Computer Vision — Sean Tronsen
- Cray EX40 (Chicoma) Cluster Intrusion Detection Project — Daniel Wild
- Pavilion test searching — Frank Keithley
- Elastic Workflows with PMIx — Rajat Bhattarai
Posters
- Benchmarking Effects of Erasure Scheme and MPI Configuration on MarFS Throughput — Janya Budaraju, Paul Karhnak, Zach Snyder
- Charliecloud’s Successful Prototype Integration with Slurm: A Promising Approach with Some Strings Attached — Layton McCafferty, Nicholas Volpe, Hank Wikle
- Monitoring Clusters Using Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) — Weston Cadena, Alexis Ng,
M. Aiden Phillips - Evaluating Lustre Network Performance over InfiniBand and RoCE — David Medin, Benjamin Schuelter, Matthew Vandeberg
- Benefits of Time Series Data Tables for HPCInfo — Kenton Romero
- Seeing the trees for the forest: Describing HPC Filesystems with the Grand Unified File-Index (GUFI) — Jenna Kline
- Development of a Capacity ON Demand User Interaction Toolkit (CONDUIT) Job Launch Mechanism — Christa Collins
- Cray EX40 (Chicoma) Cluster Intrusion Detection Project — Daniel Wild
- Detecting Anomalies in Laser Powder Bed Fusion with Computer Vision — Sean Tronsen
2022 Showcase Archive
The 2022 presentations and posters are below organized by session.
Presentation Session 1 – 9:30 to 11:30
- Writing UMT Pavilion configs for Crossroads Acceptance Testing | Shivam Mehta
- Exploring Rust in High-Performance Computing for Mitigating Errors and Improving Security | Jake Tronge
- Porting the Energy Exascale Earth System Model to the Chicoma LANL HPC Platform | Timothy Goetsch and Franklin Keithley
- Tropical Neural Networks | Jose Ortiz
- Relating Epigenetic Information to the Structure of DNA Using Deep Learning | Vanessa Job
- Evaluating TCP Protocol Performance on High-Speed Networks | Noah Jones, Jerrod Parten and Lucas Ritzdorf
- Charliecloud's Git-based Cache is Competitive with Alternatives | Z. Noah Hounshel, Ashlynn Lee and Ben Stormer
- Performance Analysis of Non-Volatile Memory Express Over Fabrics (NVMeoF) Using Infiniband and Ethernet | Christa Collins, Joseph Sarrao and Zach Wadhams
Poster Session – 11:30 to 1 (Lunch provided)
- Streamlining Machine Learning for Molecular Dynamics by Interfacing Python with LAMMP3 | Steven Anaya
- Performance Analysis of Non-Volatile Memory Express Over Fabrics (NVMeoF) Using Infiniband and Ethernet | Christa Collins, Joseph Sarrao and Zach Wadhams
- Charlieclouds Git-based Cache is Competitive with Alternatives | Z. Noah Hounshel, Ashlynn Lee and Ben Stormer
- Evaluating TCP Protocol Performance on High-Speed Networks | Noah Jones, Jerrod Parten and Lucas Ritzdorf
- HPC Network Security Analytics Using Virtual Appliances | Victoria Sasaoka
- Automating and Customizing the Node Health Check Tool for Support System | Aedan Wells
2021 Showcase Archive
An archive of the abstracts and presentations from last years virtual showcase are below.
ABSTRACTSThursday, July 29, 2021
- Implementing Kexec with Ironic to Reduce HPC System Downtime | Kam Killfirst
- Number Representations and their Applications to Hardware Devices | Andrew Alexander and Matthew Broussard
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
- 10:05am | Machine Architecture Impact on Application Performance | Nicklaus Przybylski
- 10:10am | Relating Epigenetic Information to the Structure of DNA Using Deep Learning | Vanessa Job
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- 10:26am | Perils of the One-Size-Fits-All Kernel: A Fast, Secure Search for FileSystem Metadata | Prajwal Challa
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- 10:42 am | Robust Architectures for Arithmetic Circuits via Quantum Sampling | Vanessa Job and Nathan Kodama
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Thursday, August 12, 2021
Morning Sessions
- 9:02am | Can it scale? : Metadata Performance Testing of Lustre Dynamic Namespace | Megan Booher & Seema Kulkarni
- 9:18am | Exploring the Trusted Platform Module to Establish Mutual Trust in High Performance Computing | Devon Bautista & Rebecca Whitten
- 9:34am | Managing Configuration Secrets from Ansible using Hashicorp Vault | Susan Foster & Raafiul Hossain
- 9:50am | Characterizing the impact of compiler and MPI version differences in Containers with Spack | David Bernado & Martha Dix
- 10:06am | Analyzing Server-side Scalability of Image Filesystems & Attachment Technologies | Timothy Bargo, Aedan Wells, and Michelle Yoon
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Early Afternoon Sessions
- 12:02pm | Offloading Calculations to Computational Storage Devices: Spark and HDFS | Cunningham, Goldstein, Hammock, Janz, Liu and Rimerman
- 12:18pm | Using Computational Storage Devices: OpenMP/MPI and Charliecloud | Cunningham, Goldstein, Hammock, Janz, Liu and Rimerman
- 12:34pm | SquashFS & FUSE for Better HPC Containers | Megan Phinney
- 12:50pm | Integration of the PENNANT mini-app into the Pavilion Test Harness | Timothy Goetsch
- 2:32pm | MarFS and libNE Utility Development | Daniel Perry
- 2:48pm | Network Monitoring and Analytics with SFlow | Conner Whitfield
Thursday, August 19, 2021
- 1:02pm | Dust Destruction in Core Collapse Supernovae | Sarah Stangl
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- 1:18pm | Performance Analysis of Common Loop Optimizations | Brian Gravelle
- 1:34pm | Machine learning for physics simulation anomaly detection | Adam Good
- 1:50pm | Exploring OpenSNAPI Use Cases and Evolving Requirements | Brody Williams
Thursday, September 30, 2021
- Tropical Matrix Factorization | Jose Ortiz
Projects
SUMMER 2021
2020 Showcase Archive
An archive of the abstracts and presentations from last years virtual showcase are below.
ABSTRACTSAugust 6, 2020
August 12, 2020
- Deploying Machine Learning Workflows into HPC environment | Ragini Gupta
- Managing Dynamic Workflows in BEE | Steven Anaya
- Embracing Open Firmware in HPC for Faster and More Secure Provisioning | Devon Bautista
- Performing Survival Analysis on HPC System Memory Error Data | Stephen Penton
- Memory Trace Analysis using Machine Learning | Braeden Slade
- Exploring the Feasibility of In-Line Compression on HPC Mini-Apps | Dakota Fulp
- No-Cost and Low-Cost Methods of Reducing Floating Point Error in Sums by Vanessa Job
- Data placement and movement in a heterogeneous memory environment | Onkar Patil
- bueno: Benchmarking, Performance, and Provenance | Jacob Dickens
- Parallelization and vectorization of nuDust | Ezra Brooker/Sarah Stangl
- Perils of the One-Size-Fits-All Kernel: A Fast, Secure Search for File System Metadata | Prajwal Challa
- The first virtual Supercomputing Institute | Richard Snyder
- Technical Project Management Migration to the Cloud and Confluence Documentation | Morgan Jones
August 13, 2020
- Easier JupyterLab Instances for HPC Users | Dylan Wallace
- Towards CFD Fault Detection and Resolution Scaling with Machine Learning | Adam Good
- The Future of Stereo 3D Data Analysis and Visualization | John Dermer
- Memory Address Decoding and Fault Analysis | Dylan Wallace
- Investigating Hard Disk Drive Failure Through Disk Torture | Daniel Perry
- Virtualizing the Network for Testing & Development | Conner Whitfield & Robby Rollins
- Analyzing Frameworks for HPC Systems Regression Testing | Berkelly Gonzalez & Sadie Nederveld
- A Virtual Cluster Monitoring Toolkit for Bottleneck Analysis | Natasha Frumkin & Christian Marquardt
- Auto-Mounted SquashFS for Charliecloud Containers | Anna Chernikov & Megan Phinney
- Integration of the ECP Proxy Apps Suite into the Pavilion Test Harness | Christine Kendrick, Yolanda Reyes & Anaira Quezada
- Stay GUFI with Performance Regression Testing | Skylar Hagen
- Evaluating Hardware Compression Offload in a Lustre File System | Mariana Hernandez
- Integration of The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) into The Pavilion Test Harness | Timothy Goetsch
- OpenSNAPI: Toward a Unified API for SmartNICs | Brody Williams
- Hunting for Bottlenecks in ZFS Failure Recovery using NVMe Drives | Trevor Bautista
- Comparative Analysis of Metric Collecting Software | David Huff
- Generating HPC Job Profiles and Expectations with Time-Series Data | Brett Layman
- Using Statistical Methods to Validate Hardware Performance Monitors | Brian Gravelle
August 6, 2020
- Enhancing the MPI Sessions Prototype for Use on Exa-Scale Systems | Tom Herschberg
- Survey of Tools to Assess Reduced Precision on Floating Point Applications | Quinn Dibble
- Investigating the Efficacy of Unstructured Text Analysis for Failure Detection in Syslog | Katy Felkner
August 12, 2020
- Deploying Machine Learning Workflows into HPC environment | Ragini Gupta
- Managing Dynamic Workflows in BEE | Steven Anaya
- Embracing Open Firmware in HPC for Faster and More Secure Provisioning | Devon Bautista
- Performing Survival Analysis on HPC System Memory Error Data | Stephen Penton
- Memory Trace Analysis using Machine Learning | Braeden Slade
- Exploring the Feasibility of In-Line Compression on HPC Mini-Apps | Dakota Fulp
- No-Cost and Low-Cost Methods of Reducing Floating Point Error in Sums by Vanessa Job
- Data placement and movement in a heterogeneous memory environment | Onkar Patil
- bueno: Benchmarking, Performance, and Provenance | Jacob Dickens
- Parallelization and vectorization of nuDust | Ezra Brooker/Sarah Stangl
- Perils of the One-Size-Fits-All Kernel: A Fast, Secure Search for File System Metadata | Prajwal Challa
- The first virtual Supercomputing Institute | Richard Snyder
- Technical Project Management Migration to the Cloud and Confluence Documentation | Morgan Jones
August 13, 2020
- Easier JupyterLab Instances for HPC Users | Dylan Wallace
- Towards CFD Fault Detection and Resolution Scaling with Machine Learning | Adam Good
- The Future of Stereo 3D Data Analysis and Visualization | John Dermer
- Memory Address Decoding and Fault Analysis | Dylan Wallace
- Investigating Hard Disk Drive Failure Through Disk Torture | Daniel Perry
- Virtualizing the Network for Testing & Development | Conner Whitfield & Robby Rollins
- Analyzing Frameworks for HPC Systems Regression Testing | Berkelly Gonzalez & Sadie Nederveld
- A Virtual Cluster Monitoring Toolkit for Bottleneck Analysis | Natasha Frumkin & Christian Marquardt
- Auto-Mounted SquashFS for Charliecloud Containers | Anna Chernikov & Megan Phinney
- Integration of the ECP Proxy Apps Suite into the Pavilion Test Harness | Christine Kendrick, Yolanda Reyes & Anaira Quezada
- Stay GUFI with Performance Regression Testing | Skylar Hagen
- Evaluating Hardware Compression Offload in a Lustre File System | Mariana Hernandez
- Integration of The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) into The Pavilion Test Harness | Timothy Goetsch
- OpenSNAPI: Toward a Unified API for SmartNICs | Brody Williams
- Hunting for Bottlenecks in ZFS Failure Recovery using NVMe Drives | Trevor Bautista
- Comparative Analysis of Metric Collecting Software | David Huff
- Generating HPC Job Profiles and Expectations with Time-Series Data | Brett Layman
- Using Statistical Methods to Validate Hardware Performance Monitors | Brian Gravelle