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December 2008
NA-ASC-500-08—Issue 9
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ASC Hosts Risk Management Workshop for High-Performance Computing Centers
At the request of the DOE Office of Science, ASC at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) hosted a two-day Risk Management, Theory and Practice (RMTAP) workshop Sept. 18–19 in San Francisco.
The purpose of the workshop, which was sponsored by the Office of Science/Advanced Scientific Computing Research and the NNSA/ASC program, was to assess current and emerging techniques, practices, and lessons learned for effectively identifying, understanding, managing, and mitigating the risks associated with acquiring leading-edge computing systems at high-performance computing centers (HPCCs).
“The findings of the workshop have been tallied and analyzed, said Mary Zosel, workshop organizer. “The overall impression was that formal risk management models apply to HPCC, with minimal special tailoring. All organizations are using some form of the risk analysis procedures, but there’s room for improvement. There was strong consensus that the top risk categories relate to scaling and that communications—especially with the platform partner—are an important part of best practices.” A formal report is now being prepared, and follow-on activities are being proposed.
Representatives from 15 high-performance computing (HPC) organizations, four HPC platform partners, and four government agencies attended the workshop, which was chaired by LLNL Deputy Department Head Terri Quinn. Each day of the workshop was organized as a plenary session followed by a track of four breakout sessions.
More information about the workshop is available at the RMTAP Web site.
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