Work package 1: Performance Assessment

This work package defines and improves SHAREing’s performance assessment framework by selecting relevant codes and systems, analysing assessment results to identify wider sector trends, and shaping a comprehensive methodology that can be applied across UK compute centres. It evaluates existing assessment practices, commissions studies to address methodological gaps, collaborates with training work packages on needed skills, and reviews the status of UK testbeds to establish best practices, consolidate essential information, and recommend future testbed developments that will best support progress in the community.

⚠️ Eligibility Notice: This call for tasks is currently open only to dRTP members who are formally affiliated with one of the SHAREing consortium universities: Durham, Manchester, Queen Mary University of London, Swansea, Cardiff, CoSeC, or Sheffield. Individuals who are not members of a dRTP at one of these institutions are not eligible to submit or propose tasks for this call.

WP1.1 – Performance Assessment

Lead: Martyn Guest - Cardiff University

This working group identifies codes and systems that are accepted for SHAREing’s performance assessment exercises. The group ensures that SHAREing covers a wide variety of use cases and code and system characteristics. It also studies the delivered assessments to identify overarching trends and issues of the sector.

Community GPU codes: Castep - Task 019

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System overview criteria - Task 001

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Specification of Assessment Code Requirements - Task 002

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Community GPU codes: Castep - Task 019

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Celeritas assessment - Task 003

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Community GPU codes: Life Sciences and Genomics - Task 004

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WP1.2 – Assessment Methodology

Lead: Thomas Flynn - Durham University

This group studies and gathers performance assessment methodologies. The collected expertise helps SHAREing’s assessments, but the group also works towards a unique SHAREing approach which can be rolled out at multiple compute centres in the UK. For this, it has to assess shortcomings of existing methodologies, i.e. commission user studies, and work closely together with the training work packages whenever missing assessment skills are identified.

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Document DiRAC Performance Analysis Methodology - Task 006

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Benchmark guidelines (kickstart) - Task 005

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Supercomputing Wales - Task 008

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WP1.3 – Testbeds

Lead: Gokmen Kilic - Durham University

This group discusses the status quo of testbeds in the UK. We identify which information is to be collected and has to be consolidated, best practices in describing and assessing the testbeds, and the group also can make recommendations which testbeds they would like to see within the community to allow for faster progress in the field.

Success Story Collection - Task 010

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Durham HPC Lab - Task 011

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Hardware Portal - Task 009

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