User monitoring

Long term aggregations for end users

The long term job-specific aggregations for end users consist of nine metrics from the domains of energy consumption, performance characterization and I/O.

1. the total energy consumption, per job
2. the achieved memory bandwidth, averaged, per node.
3. the achieved floating point performance, averaged, per node.
4. the total amount of data written to the lustre file systems, per job.
5. the total amount of data read from the lustre file systems, per job.
6. the achieved peak write bandwidth to the lustre file systems, averaged, per node
7. the achieved peak read bandwidth to the lustre file systems, averaged, per node
8. the total number of metadata operations on the lustre file systems, per job
9. the achieved peak rate of metadata operations on the lustre file systems, averaged, per node

What the metrics represent and how the data is aggregated:

1. The total energy consumption per job [in Wh]

 1. we calculate the median of the power consumption per node over the timeline of the job and sum up the respective contributions from all compute nodes of the job.
 2. we then factor in static contributions from the admin and storage infrastructure, averaged over all compute nodes, assigned per compute node of the job.
 3. we add a static contribution from the cooling distribution units, averaged over all compute nodes, assigned per compute node of the job.
 4. we also include the overhead corresponding to the efficiency rating of the power supply units. 

2. The achieved memory bandwidth [in GByte/s]:

 1. this is the rate at which data can be read from or stored to the main memory.
 2. to calculate the achieved memory bandwidth, we calculate the median of the memory bandwidth per node as reported by Likwid [1] over the timeline of the job. We then average over all compute nodes of the job.

3. The achieved floating point performance [in GFlop/s]:

 1. this is the amount of floating point operations per second. While this metric does not discriminate between single or double precision floating point operations, it will take into account the SIMD width [2] of the floating point instructions. 
 2. to calculate the amount of floating point operations per second, we calculate the median of the amount of floating point operations per second as reported by Lkiwd over the timeline of the job. We then average over all compute nodes of the job.

4. The total amount of data written to the lustre file systems [in GByte]:

 1. the amount of data written to the ws10 or ws11 workspaces of the lustre files per job.

5. The total amount of data read from the lustre file systems [in GByte]:

 1. the amount of data read from the ws10 or ws11 workspaces of the lustre files per job.

6. the achieved peak write bandwidth to the lustre file systems, averaged, per node [in Gbyte/s]

 1. this is the peak rate at which the job writes to the ws10 or ws11 workspaces of the lustre files over the lifetime of the job

7. the achieved peak read bandwidth to the lustre file systems, averaged, per node [in Gbyte/s]

 1. this is the peak rate at which the job writes to the ws10 or ws11 workspaces of the lustre files over the lifetime of the job

8. the total number of metadata operations on the lustre file systems, per job [in metadata ops]

 1. this is the number of metadata operations [status, open, close, rename, unlink, etc.] which can be assigned to the job.

9. the achieved peak rate of metadata operations on the lustre file systems, averaged, per node [in metadata ops/s]

 1. this is the peak rate of metadata operations on the lustre file systems which can be assigned to the job.