Wrangling Rogues: Managing Experimental Post-Moore Architectures

Abstract

The Rogues Gallery is a new experimental testbed that is focused on tackling rogue architectures for the post-Moore era of computing. While some of these devices have roots in the embedded and highperformance computing spaces, managing current and emerging technologies provides a challenge for system administration that are not always foreseen in traditional data center environments.We present an overview of the motivations and design of the initial Rogues Gallery testbed and cover some of the unique challenges that we have seen and foresee with upcoming hardware prototypes for future post-Moore research. Specifically, we cover networking, identity management, scheduling of resources, and tools and sensor access aspects of the Rogues Gallery along with techniques we have developed to manage these new platforms. We argue that current tools like the Slurm scheduler can support new rogues without major infrastructure changes.