We Have an HPC System
Chet Langin · 2017
If you build it, will they come? Not necessarily. A critical need exists for knowledge in managing and properly utilizing supercomputing at mid-level and smaller research institutions. Simply having HPC hardware and some software is not enough. This paper relates the administrative experience of the first several months of a mid-level doctoral university providing a new enterprise XSEDE [15] Compatible Basic Cluster (XCBC) [3,4,5] high performance computing cluster to faculty and other researchers, including the experiences of first-day urgencies, initial problems in the first few weeks, and establishing an ongoing management system.