Title: Uniform job monitoring in the HPC-Europa project: data model, API and services

Authors: F. Guim, I. Rodero, J. Corbalan, J. Labarta, A. Oleksiak, T. Kuczynski, D. Szejnfeld, J. Nabrzyski

Addresses: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, C/Jordi Girona 29, Edifici Nexus II, 080034 Barcelona, Spain. ' Barcelona Supercomputing Center, C/Jordi Girona 29, Edifici Nexus II, 080034 Barcelona, Spain. ' Barcelona Supercomputing Center, C/Jordi Girona 29, Edifici Nexus II, 080034 Barcelona, Spain. ' Barcelona Supercomputing Center, C/Jordi Girona 29, Edifici Nexus II, 080034 Barcelona, Spain. ' Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Noskowskiego 10, 61–704 Poznan, Poland. ' Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Noskowskiego 10, 61–704 Poznan, Poland. ' Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Noskowskiego 10, 61–704 Poznan, Poland. ' Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Noskowskiego 10, 61–704 Poznan, Poland

Abstract: Job monitoring in Grid systems presents an important challenge because Grid environments are volatile, heterogeneous, not reliable and are managed by different middleware and monitoring tools. We present the infrastructure that we have designed and implemented in the HPC-Europa European project, which allows uniform access to job-monitoring information from different Virtual Organisations (VOs). The presented system introduces the user to the complexities of the underlying systems of each middleware. The API that each centre has to implement for providing access to its job-monitoring information is explained. Finally, we show all the features that a user can use in the portal to personalise his/her monitoring environment, i.e., to choose how and which information has to be presented.

Keywords: grid computing; job monitoring; grid portals; HPC-Europa; grid infrastructure; virtual organisations; middleware; personalisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2007.014956

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2007 Vol.3 No.3, pp.333 - 353

Published online: 20 Aug 2007 *

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