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These days the number of supercomputer users and the jobs they execute is rapidly growing, especially for supercomputers, providing computing time to external users. Supercomputers and their computing time are highly expensive, so their efficiency is crucial for both users and owners. There are several ways to increase operational efficiency, however, in most cases it involves a trade-off between efficiency metrics. This brings about a need to define “efficiency” in each specific case. We use the historical data from two largest Russian supercomputers to create a number of metrics in order to provide the definition of resource management “efficiency”. The data from both Lomonosov and Lomonosov-2 supercomputers consists of over one year history of job executions. Lomonosov and Lomonosov-2 efficiency in terms of CPU hours utilization is considerably high, nevertheless, our global goal is to offer the way to maintain or improve this metric when maximizing others examined in the paper.
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This material is based upon the work supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Agreement N 17-07-00664 A).
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Leonenkov, S., Zhumatiy, S. (2019). Supercomputer Efficiency: Complex Approach Inspired by Lomonosov-2 History Evaluation. In: Voevodin, V., Sobolev, S. (eds) Supercomputing. RuSCDays 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 965. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05807-4_54
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