Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-15 Thread Arnie Miles
More thoughts and comments. We've been chatting on the thebes-l list, and it would seem that all we would want to add from the security perspective is a pointer to one or more metadata documents, which would then hold anything useful to the security system. That would minimize the impact this

Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-11 Thread Buccaneer for Hire.
Hello All, I push grid technology both here where I work, and with a consortium of universities and colleges I am a member of. We too are using Ganglia as the monitoring platform of choice. Since we are using the Globus Toolkit which has hooks for Ganglia it makes things easy.

[Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-10 Thread Arnie Miles
All, The Thebes project is working on collecting, building and assembling the missing elements for a truly scalable grid. A project that has been on our radar for some time is a harmonized resource description language. SGE, PBS, Condor, LSF, and even OGF all have their own methods for

Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-10 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Arnie: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Arnie Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Thebes project is working on collecting, building and assembling the missing elements for a truly scalable grid. A project that has been on our radar for some time is a harmonized resource description

Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-10 Thread Jesse Becker
Bernard Li wrote: While not exactly what you have in mind, but have you taken a look at the JobMonarch project? https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/jobmonarch/ AFAIK it does also work with SGE. Meh...not really. It's under development, and doesn't work so well with the 6.x versions. I think it

Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-10 Thread Arnie Miles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just spent an hour on the phone with an associate, Jess Cannata, talking about the impact Ganglia can have on Thebes. Bernard, I think you know Jess already. It seems that almost all of what we want already exists in the gmond and gmetad. I think

Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-10 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Arnie: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Arnie Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just spent an hour on the phone with an associate, Jess Cannata, talking about the impact Ganglia can have on Thebes. Bernard, I think you know Jess already. Yes, we both started looking at Ganglia around the

Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-10 Thread Arnie Miles
IMHO a Ganglia BoF would be of value. I think Ganglia should be represented at next year's Open Source Cluster and Grid Conference as well. The latter meeting may be more valuable. As a long-time ganglia fan, I'm suddenly seeing new and greater value then ever before. Arnie Bernard Li

Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-10 Thread Seth Graham
Jesse Becker wrote: Bernard Li wrote: While not exactly what you have in mind, but have you taken a look at the JobMonarch project? https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/jobmonarch/ AFAIK it does also work with SGE. Meh...not really. It's under development, and doesn't work so well with the 6.x

Re: [Ganglia-general] Leveraging Ganglia XML output for more then monitoring -- the Thebes Consortium Project

2008-06-10 Thread Arnie Miles
I appreciate the discussion. Seth has given this some thought, and I wanted to reply below: Seth Graham wrote: Jesse Becker wrote: Bernard Li wrote: While not exactly what you have in mind, but have you taken a look at the JobMonarch project?