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Detecting anomalies in the flow of system logs of a high performance computing (HPC) facility is a challenging task. Although previous research has been conducted to identify nominal and abnormal phases; practical ways to provide system administrators with a reduced set of the most useful messages to identify abnormal behaviour remains a challenge. In this paper we describe an extensive study of logs classification and anomaly detection using K-means on real HPC unlabelled data extracted from the Curie supercomputer. This method involves (1) classifying logs by format, which is a valuable information for admin, then (2) build normal and abnormal classes for anomaly detection. Our methodology shows good performances for clustering and detecting abnormal logs.
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Dani, M.C., Doreau, H., Alt, S. (2017). K-means Application for Anomaly Detection and Log Classification in HPC. In: Benferhat, S., Tabia, K., Ali, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice. IEA/AIE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10351. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60045-1_23
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