Octoshell: Large Supercomputer Complex Administration System

Abstract

Managing and administering of modern supercomputer centers and HPC systems as a part is a complicated and complex task. The usage of numerous traditional stand-alone tools for administering and management of supercomputers becomes a bottleneck for efficient resource utilization in conditions of growing systems scale. The developed “Octoshell” system for support of running supercomputer centers is aimed at solving this problem. It implements essential tools for administering in a single interface and allows significant automatization of typical management tasks ensuring higher efficiency of large supercomputer complex output as a whole.