CIS - A Monitoring System for PC Clusters

Authors:
Ján Astalos;Ladislav Hluchý
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Proceedings of the 7th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
Year:
2000

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Abstract

PC clusters are still more popular platform for high performance computing. But there is still lack of freely available tools for resource monitoring and management usable for efficient workload distribution. In this paper, a monitoring system for PC clusters called Cluster Information Service (CIS) is described. Its purpose is to provide clients (resource management system or application scheduler) with information about availability of resources in PC cluster. This information can help the scheduler to improve performance of parallel application. CIS is designed to have as lowin trusiveness as possible while keeping a high detail of monitoring data. The possibility of improving the performance of PVM/MPI applications is also discussed.