TY - GEN
T1 - Providing grid schedulers with passive network measurements
AU - El-Khatib, Yehia
AU - Edwards, Christopher
AU - Mackay, Michael
AU - Tyson, Gareth
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Grids offer the potential to carry out difficult computing tasks and achieve superior aggregate performance. However, grids are highly complex systems. They consist of heterogeneous resources on disparate hosts from various virtual organizations interconnected via a mixture of communication standards. Monitoring grid resources allows grid schedulers to adapt to changes in the status of these remote resources and the network paths between them. This is crucial to ensuring optimum performance. In this paper we introduce a distributed solution, called GridMAP, to collect network and end-host resource measurements, analyze their performance and feed these statistics and predictions back to schedulers. At this stage, we present our implementation of a passive TCP-SYN-based technique to provide GridMAP with round trip time and throughput measurements and we evaluate our approach against ping and iperf.
AB - Grids offer the potential to carry out difficult computing tasks and achieve superior aggregate performance. However, grids are highly complex systems. They consist of heterogeneous resources on disparate hosts from various virtual organizations interconnected via a mixture of communication standards. Monitoring grid resources allows grid schedulers to adapt to changes in the status of these remote resources and the network paths between them. This is crucial to ensuring optimum performance. In this paper we introduce a distributed solution, called GridMAP, to collect network and end-host resource measurements, analyze their performance and feed these statistics and predictions back to schedulers. At this stage, we present our implementation of a passive TCP-SYN-based technique to provide GridMAP with round trip time and throughput measurements and we evaluate our approach against ping and iperf.
KW - Availability
KW - Computer network performance
KW - Distributed computing
KW - Measurement
KW - Monitoring
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70449116386
U2 - 10.1109/ICCCN.2009.5235273
DO - 10.1109/ICCCN.2009.5235273
M3 - Conference Paper published in a book
AN - SCOPUS:70449116386
SN - 9781424445813
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
BT - 2009 Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2009
T2 - 2009 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2009
Y2 - 3 August 2009 through 6 August 2009
ER -