Wednesday November 15, 2006
Super Computing '06 - Day 4 (yesterday)
From a distance Cluster Management appears to be a different problem, looking closely into it one can see similarities with management of an enterprise datacenter management, except that the ingredients used will be mostly homegenous type of system and operating system in case of an HPC cluster. Though heterogenity is considered good, it doesn't appear to be a requirement at present. The building blocks today are commodity hardware components, I think the problem of heterogenity will hit HPC clusters when clusters grow over a period of time and the choice of hardware, software may be best met by some other commodity component in the market to run either the same app or a more powerful app. on the same cluster. This will obviously force existing solutions like rocks, ganglia to be ported to those newer environment. Again extensibility and integrability appear to be an afterthought with almost all present solutions out there including the best ones. I am happy for the fact that our focus at Sun is in the right direction at the word go. Yesterday was mostly spent looking around at what others are doing and is it possible for example to integrate two grids atleast from management point of view...
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Posted at 04:40PM Nov 15, 2006 by adikhit in General | Comments[0]
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