A performance monitoring system for large computing clusters

Proceedings - 11th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, Euro-PDP 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 393-400

  Marzolla, M ^a,b  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Computer network management; Monitoring; Protocols; Prototypes; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Web server; Workstations; XML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; HTTP; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; XML;

CLUSTERS OF WORKSTATIONS; CONFIGURATION FILES; MONITORING STATIONS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEMS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; PROTOTYPES; SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS; WEB SERVERS;

MONITORING;

EID: 27644523959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMPDP.2003.1183616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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