The Palantir Grid Meta-Information System

Grids allow large scale resource-sharing across different administrative domains. Those diverse resources are likely to join or quit the Grid at any moment or possibly to break down. Grid monitoring tools have to adapt supporting access information to these heterogeneous and not reliable environments. There is a wide rage of types of resources to be monitored, with different nature, characteristics and so on. For instance Grid users want to monitor from which is the state of the jobs that submit till how many processors has a given resources of a given centre. These issues make the task of monitoring complex to treat, and it is difficult to provide a generals ways for accessing to all this information. In this paper we discuss the main characteristics of a subset of the monitoring tools currently available in terms of their extensibility, interfaces and security facilities they provide. We propose a set of functionalities that a Grid Information System should provide. We describe the P...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: GRID
• Authors: Francesc Guim, Ivan Rodero, M. Tomas, Julita Corbalán, Jesús Labarta
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Grid, GRID 2006, Grid Monitoring Tools, Monitoring Tools