Identifying software usage at HPC centers with the automatic library tracking database

Bilel Hadri; Mark Fahey; Nick Jones

doi:10.1145/1838574.1838582

Identifying software usage at HPC centers with the automatic library tracking database

Bilel Hadri^*, Mark Fahey, Nick Jones

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Abstract

A library tracking database has been developed to monitor software/library usage. This Automatic Library Tracking Database (ALTD) automatically and transparently stores, into a database, information about the libraries linked into an application at compilation time and also the executables launched in a batch job. Information gathered into the database can then be mined to provide reports. Analyzing the results from the data collected will help to identify, for example, the most frequently used and the least used libraries and codes, and those users that are using deprecated libraries or applications. We will illustrate the usage of libraries and executables on the Cray XT platforms hosted at the National Institute for Computational Sciences and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (both located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference, TG '10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1838574.1838582
State	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	2010 TeraGrid Conference, TG '10 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States Duration: Aug 2 2010 → Aug 5 2010

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Name	Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference, TG '10

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Other	2010 TeraGrid Conference, TG '10
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh, PA
Period	08/2/10 → 08/5/10

Keywords

Cray XT
Database
Library
Most/least used software
Tracking

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Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Hardware and Architecture

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