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Main Author: Iserte, Sergio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00426
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contents Understanding HPC facilities users' behaviors and how computational resources are requested and utilized is not only crucial for the cluster productivity but also essential for designing and constructing future exascale HPC systems. This paper tackles Challenge 4, 'Analyzing Resource Utilization and User Behavior on Titan Supercomputer', of the 2021 Smoky Mountains Conference Data Challenge. Specifically, we dig deeper inside the records of Titan to discover patterns and extract relationships. This paper explores the workload distribution and usage patterns from resource manager system logs, GPU traces, and scientific areas information collected from the Titan supercomputer. Furthermore, we want to know how resource utilization and user behaviors change over time. Using data science methods, such as correlations, clustering, or neural networks, our findings allow us to investigate how projects, jobs, nodes, GPUs and memory are related. We provide insights about seasonality usage of resources and a predictive model for forecasting utilization of Titan Supercomputer. In addition, the described methodology can be easily adopted in other HPC clusters.
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spellingShingle A Study on the Resource Utilization and User Behavior on Titan Supercomputer
Iserte, Sergio
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Understanding HPC facilities users' behaviors and how computational resources are requested and utilized is not only crucial for the cluster productivity but also essential for designing and constructing future exascale HPC systems. This paper tackles Challenge 4, 'Analyzing Resource Utilization and User Behavior on Titan Supercomputer', of the 2021 Smoky Mountains Conference Data Challenge. Specifically, we dig deeper inside the records of Titan to discover patterns and extract relationships. This paper explores the workload distribution and usage patterns from resource manager system logs, GPU traces, and scientific areas information collected from the Titan supercomputer. Furthermore, we want to know how resource utilization and user behaviors change over time. Using data science methods, such as correlations, clustering, or neural networks, our findings allow us to investigate how projects, jobs, nodes, GPUs and memory are related. We provide insights about seasonality usage of resources and a predictive model for forecasting utilization of Titan Supercomputer. In addition, the described methodology can be easily adopted in other HPC clusters.
title A Study on the Resource Utilization and User Behavior on Titan Supercomputer
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00426