The Operations Dashboard: An Interactive, Collaborative Environment for Monitoring Virtual Organization-Specific Compute Element Operational Status
Authors: Russ Miller 1, 2, Catherine L. Ruby 1, 2, Mark L. Greena 1
- SUNY Buffalo, Center for Computational Research
- SUNY Buffalo, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Abstract
Grid computing integrates heterogeneous, geographically distributed, Internet-ready resources that are administered under multiple domains. A key challenge in grid computing is to provide a high quality of service to users in a transparent fashion, hiding issues such as ownership and administration of resources, locations of machines where computational jobs are run, locations of data repositories where data is stored, and locations where rendering is performed, to name a few. Ensuring the functionality of a wide variety of resources under multiple administrative policies requires tools for discovering, repairing, and publishing information on the services offered by individual sites within a given grid. In this paper, we present the ACDC Operations Dashboard, an interactive, collaborative environment for collecting, addressing, and publishing operational service information for resources across a computational grid.