HPCReport: an HPC utility package to enable informative decision making

There are considerable differences in communication styles and conventions between technical and managerial teams. Those differences are exaggerated in research institutions where the technical and managerial cultures are typically on the extreme ends of the spectrum. In the modern research environment, high-performance computer establishments are generally not only considered technological high ground but also often significant investments and valuable assets to the stack holders. However, keeping the policymakers and stakeholders to stay tuned with the conditions and issues of the ground operations remains a serious challenge. One of the major hurdles that result in this phenomenon is the lack of an apparatus to generate a consistent and easy to digest executive summary that is presented in a business context.

Here, we present a conda package HPCReport to address this difficulty in the managerial escalation chain. HPCReport not only provides a collection of summative functions and corresponding graphic capacities to allow easy construction of high-level communication but also engage a suite of machine learning-based algorithms to provide scenario analytic capacity. In summary, HPCReport aims to provide an integrated solution for researchers to better understand the cohort behaviours based on historical time series data and at the same time to facilitate the IT infrastructure administrators to implement evidence-based infrastructure management and planning. For more detail please visit HPCReport home page.

Includes examples here

Figure 1: An example of a historical data visulizaiton with UtilityViz dashboard.
Figure 2: An example of a future demand forecast workflow with UtilityViz dashboard.
Figure 3: An example of a financial strategy simulation with UtilityViz dashboard.