Monitoring Systems White Papers
An IP-Level Network Monitor and Scheduling System for Clusters
Overview Current systems for managing workload on clusters of workstations, particularly those available for Linux-based (Beowulf) clusters, are typically based on traditional process-based, coarse-grained parallel and distributed programming. The DESPOT project is building a sophisticated thread-level resource-monitoring system for computational, storage and network resources based on SGI's Performance Co-Pilot (PCP). This paper presents the architecture for low-overhead, fine-grained resource-monitoring tools for network communication, and present the open-source graphical interfaces to this data. The paper also presents the scheduling system utilizing this data, with experimental results indicating the overhead of the system is minimal while providing significantly better performance than several popular scheduling techniques.
| Publisher | Kansas State University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | March 2002 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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