Application Modernization at LLNL and the Sierra Center of Excellence

Neely, J R; Supinski, Bronis R. de

doi:10.1109/mcse.2017.3421556

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“…CoE is a team of specialised expertise2 7 17 24–47 or organisational environment2 5 24 30 35 36 48–56 that is established to provide outstanding healthcare,2 7 12 17 24–39 41 48 50 51 57–74 research,12 17 24 26–28 31 36 40 41 50 52 58 68 72 74–85 education and training,12 17 24 25 31 36 38 42 43 68 73 74 76 81–83 85–88 regulatory,57 83 89 policy,46 49 54 55 82 90 information technology45 53 91 or industrial44 92 93 services and support in high levels of efficient and effective performance. CoEs are geographically concentrated and focused on high potential in science and industry,46 as a world leader or a catalyst between neighbouring countries,60 72 82 anywhere from the local research and development (R&D) group up to a network of cooperative partners.…”

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Conceptualising centres of excellence: a scoping review of global evidence

et al. 2022

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ObjectiveGlobally, interest in excellence has grown exponentially, with public and private institutions shifting their attention from meeting targets to achieving excellence. Centres of Excellence (CoEs) are standing at the forefront of healthcare, research and innovations responding to the world’s most complex problems. However, their potential is hindered by conceptual ambiguity. We conducted a global synthesis of the evidence to conceptualise CoEs.DesignScoping review, following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and methodological enhancement by Levac et al and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews.Data sourcesPubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, Google Scholar and the Google engine until 1 January 2021.EligibilityArticles that describe CoE as the main theme.ResultsThe search resulted in 52 161 potential publications, with 78 articles met the eligibility criteria. The 78 articles were from 33 countries, of which 35 were from the USA, 3 each from Nigeria, South Africa, Spain and India, and 2 each from Ethiopia, Canada, Russia, Colombia, Sweden, Greece and Peru. The rest 17 were from various countries. The articles involved six thematic areas—healthcare, education, research, industry, information technology and general concepts on CoE. The analysis documented success stories of using the brand ‘CoE’—an inﬂuential brand to stimulate best practices. We identified 12 essential foundations of CoE—specialised expertise; infrastructure; innovation; high-impact research; quality service; accreditation or standards; leadership; organisational structure; strategy; collaboration and partnership; sustainable funding or financial mechanisms; and entrepreneurship.ConclusionsCoEs have significant scientific, political, economic and social impacts. However, there are inconsistent use and self-designation of the brand without approval by an independent, external process of evaluation and with high ambiguity between ‘CoEs’ and the ordinary ‘institutions’ or ‘centres’. A comprehensive framework is needed to guide and inspire an institution as a CoE and to help government and funding institutions shape and oversee CoEs.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising centres of excellence: a scoping review of global evidence

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“…CoE is a team of specialized expertise (25-37, 40-42, 47, 49, 62, 66, 69, 84, 85, 89, 92, 98, 100) or organizational environment (25, 31, 35, 38, 40, 41, 50, 51, 55, 61, 74, 94, 96, 97, 101) that is established to provide outstanding healthcare (24-42, 44-49, 51-64, 69, 73, 75, 79-80), research (25, 27-29, 32, 39, 41, 44, 47, 51, 59, 65-74, 77, 78, 80-83), education and training (25, 26, 32, 41, 47, 49, 59, 67, 75, 77-81, 83, 84-88), regulatory (24, 43, 81), policy (50, 78, 95-98), information technology (92-94) or industrial (89-91) services and support in high levels of efficient and effective performance. CoEs are geographically concentrated and focused on high potential in science and industry (98), as a world leader or a catalyst between neighboring countries (46, 73, 78), anywhere from the local R&D group up to a network of co-operative partners.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing centers of excellence: A global evidence

Manyazewal

Woldeamanuel

Oppenheim

et al. 2021

Preprint

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ObjectiveGlobally, interest in excellence has grown exponentially, with public and private institutions shifting their attention from meet targets to achieving excellence. Centers of Excellence (CoEs) are standing at the forefront of healthcare, research, and innovations responding to the world’s most complex problems. However, their potential is hindered by conceptual ambiguity. We conducted a global synthesis of the evidence to conceptualize CoEs.DesignScoping review, following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and methodological enhancement by Levac et al to analyze the evidence and the PRISMA-ScR to guide the retrieval and inclusion of the evidence.Data sourcesPubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, Google Scholar, and the Google engine from their inception to 01 January 2021.EligibilityPapers that describe CoE as the main theme, which could be defining, theorizing, implementing, or evaluating a CoE.ResultsThe search resulted in 52,161 potential publications, with 78 articles met the eligibility criteria. The 78 articles were from 33 countries, of which 35 were from the United States of America, 3 each from Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, and India, and 2 each from Ethiopia, Canada, Russia, Colombia, Sweden, Greece, and Peru. The rest 17 were from various countries. The articles involved six thematic areas - healthcare, education, research, industry, information technology, and general concepts on CoE. The analysis documented success stories of using the brand “Center of Excellence” - an influential brand to stimulate technical skills, innovation, and technology. We identified 12 essential foundations of CoE - specialized expertise; infrastructure; innovation; high-impact research; quality service; accreditation or standards; leadership; organizational structure; strategy; collaboration and partnership; sustainable funding or financial mechanisms; and entrepreneurship.ConclusionsCoEs have significant scientific, political, economic, and social impacts. A comprehensive framework is needed to guide and inspire an institution as a CoE and to help government and funding institutions shape and oversee CoEs.Strengths and limitations of this study-To the best of our knowledge, this is the first scoping review to conceptualize centers of excellence based on global evidence.-The study followed Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and methodological enhancement by Levac et al to and the PRISMA-ScR methodological frameworks.-Five databases were systematically searched to identify scientific and gray literature-The study was limited by language restrictions.

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“…Our workloads comprise of proxy applications present in well-known benchmark suites: ECP proxy applications suite [16] and LLNL ASC proxy applications suite [17]. Proxy applications are small and simplified applications that allow HPC practitioners, operators, and domain scientists to explore and test key features of real applications in a quick turnaround fashion.…”

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MATCH: An MPI Fault Tolerance Benchmark Suite

Guo

Georgakoudis

Parasyris

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)

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MPI has been ubiquitously deployed in flagship HPC systems aiming to accelerate distributed scientific applications running on tens of hundreds of processes and compute nodes. Maintaining the correctness and integrity of MPI application execution is critical, especially for safety-critical scientific applications. Therefore, a collection of effective MPI fault tolerance techniques have been proposed to enable MPI application execution to efficiently resume from system failures. However, there is no structured way to study and compare different MPI fault tolerance designs, so to guide the selection and development of efficient MPI fault tolerance techniques for distinct scenarios. To solve this problem, we design, develop, and evaluate a benchmark suite called MATCH to characterize, research, and comprehensively compare different combinations and configurations of MPI fault tolerance designs. Our investigation derives useful findings: (1) Reinit recovery in general performs better than ULFM recovery; (2) Reinit recovery is independent of the scaling size and the input problem size, whereas ULFM recovery is not; (3) Using Reinit recovery with FTI checkpointing is a highly efficient fault tolerance design. MATCH code is available at https://github.com/kakulo/MPI-FT-Bench.

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Application Modernization at LLNL and the Sierra Center of Excellence

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Conceptualising centres of excellence: a scoping review of global evidence

Conceptualising centres of excellence: a scoping review of global evidence

Conceptualizing centers of excellence: A global evidence

MATCH: An MPI Fault Tolerance Benchmark Suite

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