NVisionCC: a visualization framework for high performance cluster security

Authors:
William Yurcik;Xin Meng;Nadir Kiyanclar
Affiliations:
University of Illinois-UC;University of Illinois-UC;University of Illinois-UC
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Visualization and data mining for computer security
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Large high performance clusters are gaining popularity as a means of harnessing vast computing resources at low cost using commodity components. Cluster system administrators face difficulty from two related problems. First, while several cluster monitoring solutions collect data on the node state and overall performance of a cluster, few monitors place emphasis on the meaningful visual presentation of this information which is increasingly important as cluster size in nodes grows beyond the human capability to manage using command line tools. Second, while cluster state and performance data have been visually monitored in several systems, there are currently no cluster monitors that visualize cluster security events. We have developed a framework for effective visualization of a high performance cluster security which we describe in this paper. We present GUI screenshots from a security visualization tool based on this framework and discuss our experience using this tool on high performance clusters at NCSA.