Design and Implementation of a Monitoring and Scheduling System for Multiple Linux PC Clusters

Abstract

Managing and monitoring a cluster is both a tedious and challenging task, since each computing node is designed as a stand-alone system rather than a part of a parallel architecture. Beowulf systems will need a richer set of software tools to improve usability and re-configurability. In this paper, a software system that allows the centralized administration of a generic Beowulf cluster is proposed. This system also provides web services and applications to monitor large-scale clusters with task scheduling.