Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the Open, Composable, Heterogeneous, Adaptable, Management Infrastructure (OCHAMI) to enhance support for various applications and workflows. The objective of OCHAMI is to establish a collaborative community where members collectively contribute to the framework's architectural direction, allowing individual high-performance computing (HPC) sites to address specific challenges and share resulting solutions within the community, according to a press release by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
OCHAMI is a collaborative initiative involving Los Alamos National Laboratory, NERSC, CSCS, HPE, and the University of Bristol. It seeks to modernize systems management by integrating flexibility for preferred tools and embracing innovative concepts for scalable infrastructure as said in a press release by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
"Los Alamos is pleased to be involved in this important community and eager to have other institutions join this inclusive effort," said Gary Grider, High Performance Computing division leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "We see the need to move from today's method of installing, configuring and then resisting changes to an ongoing approach of flexible and change-friendly management of heterogeneous computing environments."
The new approach encourages error recovery and leveraging existing priorities in a larger-scale managed environment. The community emphasizes adopting modern concepts like micro-services, heterogeneous orchestration, self-discovery, adaptability, and composability to meet the evolving demands of today's applications according to a press release by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
"Open standards are imperative to driving innovation in supercomputing," said Trish Damkroger, senior vice president and chief product officer at HPC. "The HPC industry needs a modern cloud-native data center infrastructure management interface with simplified user experience that supports legacy tools but is flexible enough to adapt to modern features. We look forward to collaborating with members of OCHAMI to achieve our mutual goal enabling operational excellence advancing the HPC community," she added, according to a press release by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
