Wrangling Rogues: Managing Experimental Post-Moore Architectures

TL;DR

The paper introduces the Rogues Gallery, a new experimental testbed designed to explore and manage unconventional 'rogue' architectures for the Post-Moore era, addressing unique challenges in system administration and hardware management.

Contribution

It presents the design, motivations, and management techniques for the Rogues Gallery testbed tailored to emerging post-Moore architectures.

Findings

Identified key challenges in managing rogue hardware platforms.

Developed management techniques for networking, identity, and resource scheduling.

Provided insights into future hardware management for post-Moore systems.

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 high-performance 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 the networking, identity management, scheduling of resources, and tools and sensor access aspects of the Rogues Gallery and techniques we have developed to manage these new platforms.