Why do Users Need to Take Care of Their HPC Applications Efficiency?

High-performance computing takes a very important place in modern scientific research process. And since all scientists want to solve their problems faster, it is very important to speed up these computations. For these purposes, new algorithms are being developed, new HPC systems appear, etc. However, quite little attention is paid to the efficiency of high-performance computations, which often leads to a vast amount of supercomputer resources being idle. It is vital to change this situation; in particular, it is necessary to show users the importance and necessity of optimizing their applications. One of the main steps in this direction is to help users detect performance issues in their programs, analyze their level of criticality as well as root causes, and eliminate them in order to improve application performance. In this article we describe the research being performed at the Lomonosov Moscow State University aimed at solving this problem. In particular, we analyze the results of supercomputer center users survey, showing their opinion on the efficiency analysis. We also share our vision on the HPC center workflow requirements to support system and applications efficiency analysis. After that, we describe a software tool being developed that allows any supercomputer user to obtain and analyze versatile statistics on performance of his HPC jobs, helping him to detect possible root causes of performance degradation.