The SMASH Impacts to Cluster Computing

Summary form only given. High performance computing clusters scaling out fact indicates manageability will become more important than ever. Over time, a computer center tends facilitate multiple management frameworks from vendors to remote manage generations of heterogeneous HPC clusters to complete one task. The heterogeneous and scaling out computing info structure made HPCC/grid administration even more challenging and time consuming than before. Management interoperability is usually compromised or absent due to the heterogeneous environment. In order to solve this problem for the long run and further reduce the total cost of ownership, industry is defining the systems management architecture for server hardware (SMASH) initiative. The SMASH initiative is a suite of specifications, which standardize management interfaces and remote management architecture for heterogeneous computing environments. The suite of specifications includes unified command line protocol, resource discovery, and resource addressing and data model profiles. SMASH not only addresses complicated administration challenges as well as enables hardware independent remote manageability plus computing info structure status/performance aware job scheduling schemes and as a result, will bring HPC clusters/grid utilization rates to an even higher level. This poster uses figures to illustrate the challenges, corresponding SMASH specifications and point out the potential research directions in supercomputing space over SMASH implementations