Development Operations (DevOps) School for HPC

The Development Operations (DevOps) School for HPC is an integral, standalone educational offering during the CARLA 2025 conference. The School is tailored to equip participants with hands-on skills and conceptual insights in managing and optimizing HPC systems. Led by renowned instructors, attendees can expect high-quality instruction and international expertise to equip participants with hands-on skills and conceptual insights in managing and optimizing large clusters and HPC systems

The program is rich in content and practical engagement—offering invited keynotes, deep-dives on tools like Ansible, Spack, EasyBuild, and XDMoD, as well as hands-on tutorials and sessions on benchmarking, monitoring, and profiling.

Dates: September, Monday 22 – Friday 26, 2025
Location: Río Bueno Suite, ground floor, The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.

Key topics covered include:

Package Managers: Spack, EasyBuild
Information Security in HPC
Benchmarking and Profiling
Storage solutions
Containers for HPC
Cluster Provisioning
Visualization tools

Organizers

Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America.
Nicolás Wolovick, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Argentina.

Instructors

Sergi Girona, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain.
Kenneth Hoste, Ghent University, Belgium.
Fernando Posada Correa, ORNL, United States of America.
Caetano Melone, LLNL, United States of America.
André Ramos Carneiro, LNCC, Brazil.
Daniele Di Bari, CINECA, Italy.
Edgar León, LLNL, United States of America.
Bernd Mohr, Jülich, Germany.
Christian Iwainsky, TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Alessandro Marani, CINECA, Italy.
Hugo Hernández, spinTwo, United States of America.
Lev Gorenstein, Globus, United States of America.
Greg Nawrocki, Globus, United States of America.
Silvio Rizzi, ANL, United States of America.

Invited Sponsor Talks

Diamond Sponsor: Quantum Computing, Francisco Aguirre/Dell Technologies; Pedro Mario Cruz e Silva/NVIDIA.
Gold Sponsor: Effective HPC Parallel processing with SLURM, Miguel Roberto Tiempos/AMD.
Gold Sponsor: Bridging High Performance Computing and AI/LLM Users: An Integrated Framework Architecture, Lincoln V. Walters/LVW.
Diamond Sponsor Invited Talk: Best Practices in HPC Cluster Deployments and How to Achieve it with OpenCATTUS, Eiji Kawahira/Lenovo.

Supporters

https://resinfra-eulac.eu/

Slides and Material

M2: ESSI and EasyBuild, Kenneth Hoste, U. Genth, Virtual, [Slides PDF]
M3: Ansible. [Tutorial]
M4: Spack, [Slides PDF]
M5: NCCS Software Provisioning System, [Tutorial]
M7: Lmod tutorial [Slides PDF]

T1: Marenostrum 1-5 [Slides PDF]
T2: Parallel Processing w/SLURM [Slides PDF], AMD University Program [Slides PDF]
T3: Managing a Large-Scale HPC Infrastructure: User eXperience [Slides PDF]
T4: Runtime Systems [Tutorial]

W1: Jupiter at Jülich [Slides PDF]
W4: OpenCATTUS [Slides PDF]

TH1: Monitoring and automated inefficiency detection [Slides PDF]
TH3: Managing a Large-Scale HPC Infrastructure: Production environment and monitoring [Slides PDF]
TH4: Open On Demand [Slides PDF]

FR3: Scientific Visualization Tools [Slides PDF]
FR4: Globus Compute [Slides PDF]

Schedule

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00 am	M1: Welcome (N. Wolovick/UNC & V. Melesse Vergara/ORNL) 9:00 am – 9:15 am M2: ESSI and EasyBuild (Kenneth Hoste/U. Gent – Virtual) 9:15 am – 10:15 am System Management and Package Management	T1: INVITED KEYNOTE – MareNostrum: 1 to 5 and BSC Datacenters (Sergi Girona/BSC) 9:00 am – 10:15 am	W1: INVITED KEYNOTE – Jupiter, Manage and Maintain Software (Bernd Mohr/Jülich 9:00 am – 10:15 am	TH1: INVITED KEYNOTE – Boosting HPC Systems with Job-Specific Monitoring and Automated Inefficiency Detection (Christian Iwainsky/TU Darmstadt) 9:00 am – 10:15 am Benchmarking, Monitoring, and Profiling	F1: CARLA 2026 Announcement at CARLA 2025 9:00 am – 9:15 am F2: INVITED KEYNOTE – Supporting Science at ORNL in the Post-Exascale Era (Verónica Melesse Vergara/ORNL) 9:15 am – 10:00 am
9:30 am
10:00 am	M3: Ansible (Fernando Posada Correa/ORNL – Virtual) 10:15 am – 11:00 am System Management and Package Management	T2: Gold Sponsor Invited Talk: Effective HPC Parallel processing with Slurm (Miguel Roberto Tiempos/AMD) 10:15 am – 11:00 am	W2: Sponsor Invited Talk: TBD (Lincoln V. Walters/LVW) 10:15 am – 10:45 am	TH2: Gold Sponsor Invited Talk: The New Bottleneck: How Data Locality Shapes GPU-Driven HPC (Genaro Costa/EVIDEN) 10:15 am – 11:00 am Benchmarking, Monitoring, and Profiling	F3: Visualization Tools for HPC (Silvio Rizzi/ANL) 10:00 am – 10:30 am
10:30 am					Coffee Break 10:30 am – 11:00 am
11:00 am	Coffee Break 11:00 am – 11:30 am	Coffee Break 11:00 am – 11:30 am	Coffee Break 11:00 am – 11:30 am	Coffee Break 11:00 am – 11:30 am	F4: Globus Compute: An Overview (Lev Gorenstein/Globus – Virtual) 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
11:30 am	M4: Spack (Caetano Melone/LLNL – Virtual) 11:30 am – 12:30 pm	T3: Managing a Large-Scale HPC Infrastructure: Leonardo’s Interconnect (Daniele Di Bari/CINECA) 11:30 am – 1:00 pm		TH3: Managing a large-scale HPC Infrastructure: Production environment and Monitoring on Leonardo (Alessandro Marani/CINECA) 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Benchmarking, Monitoring, and Profiling
12:00 pm					F5: Closing Remarks (N. Wolovick/UNC & V. Melesse Vergara/ORNL) 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
12:30 pm	M5: NCCS Software Provisioning System (Fernando Posada Correa/ORNL – Virtual) 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm				F6: SCALAC Community talk at CARLA 2025 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
1:00 pm	Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	F7: Awards and Closing at CARLA 2025 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm	M6: Diamond Sponsor Invited Talk: Quantum Computing (Francisco Aguirre/Dell Technologies; Pedro Mario Cruz e Silva/NVIDIA) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	T4: Runtime Systems (Edgar León/LLNL – Virtual) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	W4: Diamond Sponsor Invited Talk: TBD (Eiji Kawahira/Lenovo) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	TH4: OpenOnDemand (Hugo Hernández/spinTwo – Virtual) 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm				TH5: Globus for Modern Research Data Management Challenges (Lev Gorenstein/Globus – Virtual) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm	Coffee Break 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Coffee Break 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Coffee Break 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Coffee Break 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
4:30 pm	M7: TUTORIAL Lmod (André Ramos Carneiro/LNCC) 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm			TH6: Research Process Automation with Globus Flows (Greg Nawrocki/Globus – Virtual) 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm TH6: Research Process Automation with Globus Flows (Greg Nawrocki/Globus – Virtual) 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
5:00 pm

Previous Editions

For more information about our previous edition, please visit: 2024 Edition of DevOps School for HPC

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00 am	M2: ESSI and EasyBuild (Kenneth Hoste/U. Gent – Virtual) 9:15 am – 10:15 am System Management and Package Management
9:30 am
10:00 am

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00 am					F2: INVITED KEYNOTE – Supporting Science at ORNL in the Post-Exascale Era (Verónica Melesse Vergara/ORNL) 9:15 am – 10:00 am
9:30 am

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