Applicability of Baseline Configuration Policies to Emerging Architectures
At a joint meeting of the HPCMP User Advocacy Group (UAG) and Baseline Configuration Team (BCT) in Lorton, VA on 11 March 2020, The HPCMP Associate Director for HPC Centers posed a series of questions to both groups regarding three emerging architectures in the HPCMP:
- HPC in the Cloud
- How can users interact with both the HPCMP and Cloud environments?
- Are BC/consistency policies applicable to the Cloud?
- Highly Classified HPC
- What are the user requirements for these systems?
- What has been the impact to users resulting from fewer unclassified resources?
- How will we allocate these systems?
- Do we apply BC/consistency policies to these systems?
- Data-Intensive/Deployable HPC
- What allocation unit shall we use for these systems?
- Do we apply BC/consistency policies to these systems?
During the spring and summer months of 2020 the BC Team discussed these questions in its weekly meetings, specifically the sub-questions relating to BC/consistency policies applicable to emerging architectures.
On December 30, 2020, BC Team submitted to the HPCMP Associate Director for HPC Centers a report on the applicability of each BC policy to the following three emerging architectures:
- HPC Cloud Computing,
- Highly Classified HPC Implementations,
- Deployable Containerized HPC Implementations.
The BC Team report will be provided upon request.