HPPM 2019 - International Workshop on High Performance Platform Management (HPPM 2019)

Recent years have seen a powerful increase in large-scale, high-performance distributed infrastructures that reach across organizational and national borders. The strong trends to data centre re-centralization, catalyzed by the advent of virtualized infrastructures, compound the range of high-performance platforms and have spawned new commercial computing options, e.g., Cloud Computing. While creating new opportunities for applications, this proliferation also presents challenges to the operation of management of the resulting high-performance IT platforms.
More and more applications exploit large-scale data-centre infrastructure: Cloud offerings promise scalable commercial services, while high-performance computing clusters support the growing demand of computational science applications.
The construction and operation of these High-Performance Platforms poses challenges in many aspects, e.g.:
- the efficient management of their resources;
- the security of the infrastructure;
- the trust of users in the integrity and privacy provided by the platform;
- reliability and survivability;
- the performance of the platform;
- scalability; and
- ease-of-use.