TY - GEN
T1 - Proposal for modifications to the OSCAR architecture to address challenges in distributed system management
AU - Vallée, Geoffroy
AU - Naughton, Thomas
AU - Scott, Stephen L.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - OSCAR, a tool for the deployment and the management of clusters, has historically provided a simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) that aims to hide technical details associated with the management of such distributed platforms. The OSCAR GUI followed a fairly monolithic architecture, which was difficult to extend. Thankfully, OSCAR developers have made deep modifications to the overall OSCAR architecture to be much more modular, and as a result it is fairly simple to support OSCAR on new Linux distributions. However, a few questions remain. Is the present OSCAR architecture suitable to address current challenges needed for the management of distributed systems? For instance, is OSCAR providing a tool set that answers the needs of system administrators? This document presents a criticism of the present OSCAR architecture in order to identify current challenges related to distributed system management. Based on this analysis, we propose a modified version of the OSCAR architecture that emphasizes simplicity and incremental enhancements.
AB - OSCAR, a tool for the deployment and the management of clusters, has historically provided a simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) that aims to hide technical details associated with the management of such distributed platforms. The OSCAR GUI followed a fairly monolithic architecture, which was difficult to extend. Thankfully, OSCAR developers have made deep modifications to the overall OSCAR architecture to be much more modular, and as a result it is fairly simple to support OSCAR on new Linux distributions. However, a few questions remain. Is the present OSCAR architecture suitable to address current challenges needed for the management of distributed systems? For instance, is OSCAR providing a tool set that answers the needs of system administrators? This document presents a criticism of the present OSCAR architecture in order to identify current challenges related to distributed system management. Based on this analysis, we propose a modified version of the OSCAR architecture that emphasizes simplicity and incremental enhancements.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=51749105670&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HPCS.2008.23
DO - 10.1109/HPCS.2008.23
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51749105670
SN - 9780769532509
T3 - Proceedings - International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications
SP - 40
EP - 46
BT - Proceedings - 22nd International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, HPCS 2008
T2 - 22nd International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, HPCS 2008
Y2 - 9 June 2008 through 11 June 2008
ER -