Operational Data Analytics

Tue, 23 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Session Overview

At ISC 2023 in Hamburg, the ODA BoF returned to pick up where SC22 left off: with sites now collecting operational data at unprecedented scale, the community’s focus had shifted to analyzing it. The session combined two short 10-minute presentations on the state of the art with an extended open discussion, structured around beginner, intermediate, and advanced content in roughly equal proportions.

Key Discussion Themes

From dashboards to AI. Dashboards remained valuable, but AI-based methods were emerging as the scalable response to the “humongous amounts of data” operators now held.
Collaboration across communities. Data analytics was not typically the core expertise of HPC data centers, creating a clear opening for partnership with the broader data-analytics research community.
Operator, researcher, vendor. The session targeted HPC system operators, monitoring specialists, and data-analytics researchers together, reflecting that ODA only works when these three groups share practice.

Outcome

The BoF’s discussion of open data and standardization continued in the ODA team’s monthly meetings under the EEHPCWG and set up the data-standardization focus of the SC23 ODA BoF six months later.

ISC23 | HPC Operational Data Analytics

Operational Data Analytics

Session Overview

Key Discussion Themes

Outcome