Data monitoring in high-performance clusters for computing applications

Author

Torralba, G. ; González, V. ; Sanchis, E. ; Tao, J. ; Schulz, M. ; Karl, W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Valencia Univ., Spain

Volume

49

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

525

Lastpage

531

Abstract

The shared memory in a LAN-like environment (SMiLE) project at Lehrstuhl fur Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation, Technical University of Munich (LRR-TUM) investigates in high-performance cluster computing using system area networks. In the context of this project, a hardware monitor is being developed to observe the system area network (SAN) traffic. This hardware monitor is, therefore, capable of delivering detailed information about the run-time communication behavior of applications running on SMiLE clusters. The central part of this monitor consists of a content-addressable counter array managing a small working set of the most recently referenced memory regions

Keywords

computerised monitoring; content-addressable storage; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; shared memory systems; system buses; workstation clusters; LAN-like environment; SAN; SMiLE; cluster computing; computing applications; content-addressable counter array; data monitoring; hardware monitor; high-performance clusters; referenced memory regions; run-time communication behavior; shared memory; system area networks; Computer networks; Content management; Context; Counting circuits; Hardware; Memory management; Monitoring; Runtime; Storage area networks; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2002.1003794

Filename

1003794