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SUMMARY:Best Practices and Lessons from Deploying and Operating a Sustaine
 d-Petascale System: The Blue Waters Experience
DESCRIPTION:Gregory H. Bauer, Brett Bode, Jeremy Enos, William T. Kramer, 
 Scott Lathrop, Celso L. Mendes, and Roberto R. Sisneros (University of Ill
 inois, National Center for Supercomputing Applications)\n\nBuilding and op
 erating versatile extreme-scale computing systems that work productively f
 or a range of frontier research domains present many challenges and opport
 unities. Solutions created, experiences acquired, and lessons learned, whi
 le rarely published, could drive the development of new methods and practi
 ces and raise the bar for all organizations supporting research, scholarsh
 ip, and education. This paper describes the methods and procedures develop
 ed for deploying, supporting, and continuously improving the Blue Waters s
 ystem and its services during the last five years. Being the first US sust
 ained-petascale computing platform available to the open-science community
 , the Blue Waters project pioneered various unique practices that we are s
 haring to be adopted and further improved by the community. We present our
  support and service methodologies, and the leadership practices employed 
 for ensuring that the system stays highly efficient and productive. We als
 o provide the return on investment summaries related to deploying and oper
 ating the system.\n\nTag: Architectures, Networks, Performance, Scientific
  Computing, State of the Practice, Tools\n\nRegistration Category: Tech Pr
 ogram Reg Pass\n\nSession Chair: Ashley Barker (Oak Ridge National Laborat
 ory (ORNL))\n\n
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