MANAGEMENT:
To reduce the operational
costs, it is imperative to develop cost
effective, scalable management systems that can handle a large number
of
computing resources. Research is needed to enable a scalable
"meta-resource", made of pools of resources, which can be
configured
flexibly into thousands of protected domains, yet can be reliably managed
by a handful of people.
This requires software techniques that employ external representations
of
policies and resources to adapt dynamically to the system context. While
the goal is to automate management services, some human operators will
always be needed, to monitor the operation of the farm, perform manual
overrides, replace hardware, and so forth. Interaction modes must be
developed that ease understanding, reduce the skill requirements, and
improve the productivity of those operators. Challenges in effectively
managing Océano's server pools include providing a single point
of control,
identifying performance hot-spots, and intelligent resource allocation.
