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CIS - A Monitoring System for PC Clusters

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 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 low intrusiveness as possible while keeping a high detail of monitoring data.

The possibility of improving the performance of PVM/MPI applications is also discussed.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Ján Astaloš & Ladislav Hluchý

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  1. Innovative Computing Lab., University of Tennessee, 104 Yres Hall, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  2. MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, P.O. Box 63, Budapest, 1518, Hungary

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Astaloš, J., Hluchý, L. (2000). CIS - A Monitoring System for PC Clusters. In: Dongarra, J., Kacsuk, P., Podhorszki, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1908. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45255-9_32

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