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Use Cases for High Performance Research Desktops

Henschel, Robert ; Lindemann, Jonas LU ; Follin, Anders LU ; Dammann, Bernd ; Dennis, Cicada and Thota, Abhinav (2025) 39th ISC High Performance conference, ISC-HPC 2024 In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15058 LNCS. p.257-268
Abstract

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.... (More)

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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High-Performance Computing (HPC), Interactive Supercomputing, Research Desktop
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High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2024 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
series title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
editor
Weiland, Michèle ; Neuwirth, Sarah ; Kruse, Carola and Weinzierl, Tobias
volume
15058 LNCS
pages
12 pages
publisher
Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
conference name
39th ISC High Performance conference, ISC-HPC 2024
conference location
Hamburg, Germany
conference dates
2024-05-12 - 2024-05-16
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  • scopus:105009319460
ISSN
1611-3349
0302-9743
ISBN
9783031737152
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-73716-9_18
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English
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yes
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Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
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  author       = {{Henschel, Robert and Lindemann, Jonas and Follin, Anders and Dammann, Bernd and Dennis, Cicada and Thota, Abhinav}},
  booktitle    = {{High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2024 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers}},
  editor       = {{Weiland, Michèle and Neuwirth, Sarah and Kruse, Carola and Weinzierl, Tobias}},
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  keywords     = {{High-Performance Computing (HPC); Interactive Supercomputing; Research Desktop}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  series       = {{Lecture Notes in Computer Science}},
  title        = {{Use Cases for High Performance Research Desktops}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-031-73716-9_18}},
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