An Infrastructure for Monitoring and Management in Computational Grids

We present the design and implementation of an infrastructure that enables monitoring of resources, services, and applications in a computational grid and provides a toolkit to help manage these entities when faults occur. This infrastructure builds on three basic monitoring components: sensors to perform measurements, actuators to perform actions, and an event service to communicate events between remote processes. We describe how we apply our infrastructure to support a grid service and an application: (1) the Globus Metacomputing Directory Service; and (2) a long-running and coarse-grained parameter study application. We use these application to show that our monitoring infrastructure is highly modular, conveniently retargettable, and extensible.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: LCR
• Authors: Abdul Waheed, Warren Smith, Jude George, Jerry C. Yan
• Keywords: Basic Monitoring Components, Coarse-grained Parameter Study, Globus Metacomputing Directory, LCR 2000, System Software