Productivity and Software Development Effort Estimation
in HPC
SessionDoctoral Showcase Session 3
Presenter
Event Type
Doctoral Showcase
Applications
Architectures
Heterogeneous Systems
Productivity
Training
TimeTuesday, November 14th3:30pm -
3:48pm
Location210-212
DescriptionRelying vast HPC investments on an informed decision
making process is important when serving the ever
increasing demands for computational power. Providing a
quantitative metric to compare and evaluate HPC systems
in procurement processes, I define a productivity model
with predictive power that focuses on the number of
simulation application runs and the total cost of
ownership (TCO). As part of TCO, the software
development costs determined by efforts to parallelize,
port or tune simulation codes for novel HPC setups must
be predicted. Since approaches from mainstream software
engineering does not directly suite HPC needs, I set up
a methodology to estimate software development effort in
HPC. Proof of concepts are mostly based on real-world
HPC setups at RWTH Aachen University.
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