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Federating XDMoD to Monitor Affiliated Computing Resources

  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

The XD Metrics on Demand (XDMoD) tool was designed to collect and present detailed utilization data from the XSEDE network of supercomputers. XDMoD displays a wealth of information on computational resources. Its metrics report accounting and performance figures for computational jobs, including resources consumed, wait times, and quality of service. XDMoD can aggregate this information over an ensemble of jobs, or report it for individual jobs. Its web-based interface supports charting, exploration, and reporting for any time range, across all computing resources. Over the last eight years, we have open-sourced XDMoD, generalizing and packaging it to produce Open XDMoD. Open XDMoD may be installed, configured, and run on any computing cluster, and we have extended and refined it to include support for storage, cloud resources, science gateways, and more. In this paper, we describe the federation of XDMoD instances. This new functionality makes it possible to associate and monitor networks of related resources, using the full power of XDMoD to aggregate and display data from disparate XDMoD installations. Charting and reports from XDMoD federations can encompass anything ranging from a single resource to the entire network. The federation capability is flexible; federated resources can be coupled loosely or tightly, and a variety of different information sharing and authentication paradigms are supported. We also highlight new functionality that incorporates storage and cloud facilities into XDMoD federations. Federation will enable XDMoD users to monitor and manage ever more diverse computing resources.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages580-589
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781538683194
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 29 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2018 - Belfast, United Kingdom
Duration: Sep 10 2018Sep 13 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC
Volume2018-September
ISSN (Print)1552-5244

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBelfast
Period09/10/1809/13/18

Keywords

  • Cloud metrics
  • Federation
  • High performance computing
  • Storage metrics
  • XDMoD

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