2025-12-04 –, Mission 1
Have you ever wondered how much energy your research on Snellius uses? Or maybe how performant or efficient your application is on Snellius? We at SURF did as well. This is why we have developed an end-user friendly, interactive, dashboard that allows you to display the energy usage of your jobs on Snellius and gives you insight into how well your application is using Snellius. This dashboard gives researchers the tools and visualizations for energy aware computing.
We at the HPCV-team at SURF have developed an end-user (researcher) focused energy dashboard that displays an overview of the energy statistics and efficiency metrics of jobs that are submitted to the supercomputer. This dashboard is built to display metrics that are collected from the EAR (Energy Aware Runtime) software which provides energy management, accounting and optimization for supercomputers. With the interactive figures that are displayed, end users should be able to gain insight into their energy footprint of their research, and what they can do about it to reduce or optimize their energy usage. In this workshop we want to give an introduction into the usage of EAR and the EAR dashboard. To get the full potential out of this workshop we recommend the attendees to run their own jobs and analyze their energy usage. This workshop is geared to every expertise level.
For the past 10 years I have been a visualization advisor at SURF. During my time at SURF, I came in touch with the many categories of visualization, through many educational and research fields. The one thing that stuck out to me the most and proved to be the most useful, was creating web-based 3D visualizations. Naturally, due to curiosity, interest from our members and my affinity to 3D content, XR grew to be a part of the work I do at SURF.