Embedding Existing Heterogeneous Monitoring Techniques into a Lightweight, Distributed Integration Platform

Abstract

In the computer aided engineering field high performance computing clusters are essential for today’s work. In order to use them efficiently, monitoring systems are required. There are a lot of software systems for different monitoring purposes. The task of managing all of them at the same time usually becomes very complex, because they all have different administration requirements. In order to reduce the complexity and thus increase the manageability of high performance computing clusters for engineering applications, we propose a solution that bundles all monitoring activities into a single monitoring environment based upon an integration platform. As the base of the monitoring environment, the distributed integration platform RCE (Reconfigurable Computing Environment) is chosen. Thereby, many things like distribution or privilege management are already available. As it is a requirement to reuse existing monitoring techniques, two techniques are exemplarily examined, and a concept is developed how to embed them into the Reconfigurable Computing Environment. In this paper we describe the concept of an embedded monitoring environment for multiple purposes that reuses existing monitoring techniques.