Monitoring Message-Passing Parallel Applications in the Grid with GRM and Mercury Monitor

Application monitoring in the grid for parallel applications is hardly supported in recent grid infrastructures. There is a need to visualize the behavior of the program during its execution and to analyze its performance. In this paper the GRM application monitoring tool, the Mercury resource and job monitoring infrastructure and the combination of the two as a grid monitoring tool-set for message-passing parallel applications is described. By using them, one can see and analyze on-line the behavior and performance of the application. 1 Application monitoring in the grid There are several parallel applications that are used on a single cluster or a supercomputer. As users get access to an actual grid they would like to execute their parallel applications on the grid instead of the local computing resource for several reasons. Local resources are always limited in size and availability. They might not be capable of executing an application with a given size of input data so the user sh...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: EAGC
• Authors: Norbert Podhorszki, Zoltán Balaton, Gabor Gombás
• Keywords: Application Monitoring, Distributed And Parallel Computing, EAGC 2004, Grid, Parallel Application