Paper Info
Title
Proposal for Modifications to the OSCAR Architecture to Address Challenges in Distributed System Management
Abstract
OSCAR, a tool for the deployment and the management of clusters, has historically provided a simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) that aims to hide technical details associated with the management of such distributed platforms. The OSCAR GUI followed a fairly monolithic architecture, which was difficult to extend. Thankfully, OSCAR developers have made deep modifications to the overall OSCAR architecture to be much more modular, and as a result it is fairly simple to support OSCAR on new Linux distributions. However, a few questions remain. Is the present OSCAR architecture suitable to address current challenges needed for the management of distributed systems? For instance, is OSCAR providing a tool set that answers the needs of system administrators? This document presents a criticism of the present OSCAR architecture in order to identify current challenges related to distributed system management. Based on this analysis, we propose a modified version of the OSCAR architecture that emphasizes simplicity and incremental enhancements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/HPCS.2008.23
HPCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
current challenge,overall oscar architecture,present oscar architecture,simple graphical user interface,oscar developer,monolithic architecture,system administrator,oscar gui,system management,oscar architecture,computer architecture,software architecture,packaging,graphical user interfaces,hardware,databases,user interfaces,linux,distributed processing,switches,graphical user interface
Architecture,Software deployment,Computer science,Parallel computing,Systems analysis,Graphical user interface,Software architecture,Modular design,Systems management,User interface,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-5243
978-0-7695-3250-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Geoffroy Vallée112315.62
Thomas Naughton2402.34
Stephen L. Scott374870.99