Performance monitoring is a key issue in HPC applications no matter if they run on clusters or in the Grid. However, whereas we have relatively well developed tools and concepts for clusters, the problem seems to be more difficult in the case of the Grid. In the talk I will classify the main performance monitoring tool concepts for clusters and I will show the GRM/PROVE performance monitor and visualization tools as a case study. Then, I will explain the current monitoring trends in the Grid and as a case study I will show how the GRM/PROVE system was modified and adapted towards the Grid in the framework of the biggest European Grid project, called DataGrid.
Prof. Dr. Peter Kacsuk is the Head of the Laboratory of the Parallel and Distributed Systems in the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received his MSc and doctorate degrees from the Technical University of Budapest in 1976 and 1984, respectively. He received the kandidat degree from the Hungarian Academy in 1989. He habilitated at the University of Vienna in 1997 where he is a private professor. He is a part-time full professor at the University of Westminster, Eotvos Lorand Science University of Budapest and University of Miskolc. He served as visiting scientist or professor several times at various universities of Austria, England, Germany, Spain, Australia and Japan. He has been published three books, two lecture notes and more than 130 scientific papers on parallel logic programming, parallel computer architectures, parallel software engineering, cluster and Grid tools. He was the chair of the Performance Monitoring Working Group of the European Grid Forum and co-chair of the Performance Monitoring Working Group of the Global Grid Forum. He is a member of the Project Technical Board of the EU DataGrid project led by CERN, as well as of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hungarian CERN Committee. He is the leader of the Grid Monitoring Work Package of the EU APART-2 project and member of the Board of Directors of the EU COST MetaChem project.
Speaker: Prof. Kacsuk
Computer and Automation Research Institute of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
When: Friday, 7th of June 2002, 15:00 (s.t.)
Where: HS2, University Klagenfurt