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The Harness Workbench: Unified and Adaptive Access to Diverse HPC Platforms

The Harness Workbench: Unified and Adaptive Access to Diverse HPC Platforms. Christian Engelmann Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Existing scientific application development and deployment issues.

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The Harness Workbench: Unified and Adaptive Access to Diverse HPC Platforms

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  1. The Harness Workbench: Unified and Adaptive Access to Diverse HPC Platforms Christian Engelmann Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  2. Existing scientific applicationdevelopment and deployment issues • The diversity of HPC platforms and associated software complexity often pose challenges that lead to slow or hampered scientific discovery. • Application scientists expend considerable time and effort dealing with development, deployment, and runtime interfacing activities. • Additionally, the short HPC system deployment and upgrade interval requires frequent redeployment of scientific application to different system software stacks.

  3. Research and development goals • Increasing the overall productivity of developing and executing computational codes • Optimizing the development and deployment processesof scientific applications • Simplifying the activities of application scientists, using uniform and adaptive solutions • “Automagically” supporting the diversity of existing and emerging HPC architectures Typical scientific application development, deployment, and execution activities

  4. Harness workbench core components • Harness Workbench Toolkit • Unified development, deployment, and execution • Common view across diverse HPC platforms • User-space installation and virtual environments • Next-generation runtime environment • Flexible, adaptive, lightweight framework • Management of runtime tasks • Support for diverse HPC platforms

  5. Harness workbench core technologies • Automatic adaptation using pluggable modules • Harness Workbench Toolkit plug-ins • Runtime environment plug-ins • Development environment and toolkit interfaces • Easy-to-use interfaces for scientific application development, deployment, and execution

  6. Common view across diverse platforms • Various interfaces and bindings to external development and deployment tools and environments • Generalized modelfor unified access to common development and deployment activities • Mapping of generalized activities onto platform-specific toolkits and runtime environments (RTEs) via pluggable modules

  7. Harness Workbench Toolkit • Unifying abstraction over heterogeneous HPC resources • Command line and GUI tools • Translation into fine-tuned invocations of native toolkits • Behavior encapsulated in plug-ins • Configurable through profiles • Tunable by end users

  8. Next-generation runtime environment • Uniform interface to various front-end systems • Virtualized baseline platform runtime environment capabilities • Advanced runtime environment capabilities via high-level plug-ins

  9. Virtualized environments • Problem: • Application dependencies may cause conflicts with system-wide installed libraries. • Solution: • Use co-existing, alternative user-space installations. • Approach: • Provide isolated installation environments (“sandboxes”). • These can inherit from one another to build nested hierarchies. • Virtualized adaptation of system properties to actual application needs • System and runtime environment virtualization

  10. 1.Install environment 2. Execute application hwb – env install conf hwb – env start conf application Application 2.3 Execute application Runtime configuration 2.2 Configure runtime environment configuration Runtime environment System configuration 2.1 Start Harness runtime environment 1.1 Configure system configuration System Configurable “sandboxes” for scientific applications Virtualized environment XML configuration description Scientific application

  11. The Harness workbench: Unified and adaptive access to diverse HPC platforms • Virtualized adaptation of system properties to actual application needs • System and runtime environment virtualization

  12. Contacts Christian Engelmann Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division (865) 574-3132 engelmannc@ornl.gov Al Geist Oak Ridge National Laboratory (865) 574-3153 gst@ornl.gov Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee (865) 974-8295 Vaidy Sunderam Emory University (404) 727-5926 12 Englemann_Harness_SC07

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