**Project Description**

When I received the email of the project description it was very vague:

“High Performance Computing Performance Modeling:
The project is a research investigation into the factors that affect the performance of high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The top 10 applications run on SDSC's supercomputers will be profiled to ascertain their computational characteristics and performance. A correlations study will be undertaken to establish the relationship between program characteristics and performance.”

**But those of you that didn’t really get an idea of what**
**I actually got to do from that statement quoted directly from**
**an email I received from my mentor as soon as I emailed her**
**the first time…(such as my thoughts on the email):**


We got to choose from two projects:

• Application Scheduler: The application scheduler was going to be a user surveyof all users using the supercomputer. It would ask things like how much would you bewilling to “pay” for a job to run faster. Then the research would involve ways to makethe scheduler run faster pending the user wants.



• Performance Modeling: The performance modeling project was to be dealing withwhat they call a convolver mostly. There is an application and a pretend machine.Running this information through the convolver would tell how the machine was goingto run the job. The research that would need to be done was how to speed performance.

You can view all of the projects that the group has worked on at www.sdsc.edu/pmac/
(In specific, for my project go to http://www.sdsc.edu/pmac/ASAPP/asapp.html)