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| author | Henschel, Robert Lindemann, Jonas Follin, Anders Dammann, Bernd Dennis, Cicada Thota, Abhinav |
| author_facet | Henschel, Robert Lindemann, Jonas Follin, Anders Dammann, Bernd Dennis, Cicada Thota, Abhinav |
| contents | High Performance Research Desktops are used by HPC centers and research computing organizations to lower the barrier of entry to HPC systems. These Linux desktops are deployed alongside HPC systems, leveraging the investments in HPC compute and storage infrastructure. By serving as a gateway to HPC systems they provide users with an environment to perform setup and infrastructure tasks related to the actual HPC work. Such tasks can take significant amounts of time, are vital to the successful use of HPC systems, and can benefit from a graphical desktop environment. In addition to serving as a gateway to HPC systems, High Performance Research Desktops are also used to run interactive graphical applications like MATLAB, RStudio or VMD. This paper defines the concept of High Performance Research Desktops and summarizes use cases from Indiana University, Lund University and Technical University of Denmark, which have implemented and operated such a system for more than 10 years. Based on these use cases, possible future directions are presented. |
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| spellingShingle | Use Cases for High Performance Research Desktops Henschel, Robert Lindemann, Jonas Follin, Anders Dammann, Bernd Dennis, Cicada Thota, Abhinav Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing High Performance Research Desktops are used by HPC centers and research computing organizations to lower the barrier of entry to HPC systems. These Linux desktops are deployed alongside HPC systems, leveraging the investments in HPC compute and storage infrastructure. By serving as a gateway to HPC systems they provide users with an environment to perform setup and infrastructure tasks related to the actual HPC work. Such tasks can take significant amounts of time, are vital to the successful use of HPC systems, and can benefit from a graphical desktop environment. In addition to serving as a gateway to HPC systems, High Performance Research Desktops are also used to run interactive graphical applications like MATLAB, RStudio or VMD. This paper defines the concept of High Performance Research Desktops and summarizes use cases from Indiana University, Lund University and Technical University of Denmark, which have implemented and operated such a system for more than 10 years. Based on these use cases, possible future directions are presented. |
| title | Use Cases for High Performance Research Desktops |
| topic | Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03298 |