HPC Configuration Management

Europe/Zurich
Akademie I (Empa)

Akademie I

Empa

Überlandstrasse 129 8600 Dübendorf
Carlo Pignedoli (Empa), Christian Bolliger (ETH Zurich), Daniele Passerone (Empa), Edoardo Baldi (Empa), Michele De Lorenzi (CSCS)
Description

Introduction

The often untold story about HPC is configuration management. When it comes to administering even small HPC clusters, configuration management is key. Since this happens in the background, most users are not aware of all the efforts to keep a cluster up-to-date, all nodes in sync, and to react to users' demands for specific settings.

There are almost as many ways to fulfill this task, as there are HPC systems. 

Key Questions

In the next hpc-ch forum we will discuss questions like:

  • which configuration management tools have been proved to be useful?
  • which caveats can be found in managing HPC clusters?
  • is it preferable to use preconfigured configurations or to define the configuration management from the scratch? Is there a middle ground?
  • which role are configuration management databases (CMDB) playing?
  • which new aspects in configuration management have been brought-in by containerization and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)? 
  • what are your experiences with configuration management systems? 

 

Participants
  • Adam Henderson
  • Adrien ALBERT
  • Albert Glensk
  • Alexander Kashev
  • Alexandre Wetzel
  • Alvise Dorigo
  • Andrei Plamada
  • Arnaud Fortier
  • Azar Feyziyev
  • Bastian Bukatz
  • Carlo Antonio Pignedoli
  • Christian Bolliger
  • Daniele Passerone
  • Diego Moreno
  • Edoardo Baldi
  • Enrico Favero
  • Filippo Stenico
  • Gianfranco Sciacca
  • Guillermo Losilla
  • Hardik Kothari
  • Heinrich Billich
  • Jani Heikkinen
  • Jean-Baptiste Aubort
  • Johann FLEURY
  • Jonas Liechti
  • Julia Gustavsen
  • Jörg Ruppe-Tanner
  • Lento Manickathan
  • Marco Maslon
  • Maria Grazia Giuffreda
  • Mario Jurcevic
  • Martin Jacquot
  • Michael Rolli
  • Michele De Lorenzi
  • Miguel Gila
  • Nick Holway
  • Olivier Byrde
  • Pablo Fernandez
  • Pablo Llopis Sanmillan
  • Pierre Berthier
  • Radim Janalik
  • Remy Ressegaire
  • Ricardo Silva
  • Roman Briskine
  • Simba Nyamudzanga
  • Sofiane Sarni
  • Stefan Weber
  • Tayebeh Khoshroonemati
  • Thomas Kramer
  • Tiziano Barbari
  • Ulrich Tehrani
  • Urban Borštnik
  • Victor Holanda Rusu
  • Yann sagon