Grid Observatory

The portal is now open. Visit http://www.grid-observatory.org

All information about contact and usage are provided there.

The Grid Observatory cluster of Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) collects, publishes and analyses data on the behaviour of the EGEE grid. Its aim is to develop a scientific view of the dynamics of grid behaviour and usage. This helps both computer science researchers working in the field of autonomic computing and grid developers seeking to improve reliability, stability and performance.
Grid infrastructures, as well as data centers, consist of a variety of hardware and software components, which are, in their own right, complex systems. Grids federate independently managed resources, and answer the requests of communities with evolving behaviour patterns.
With extensive monitoring facilities already in place, EGEE grid offers an unprecedented opportunity to observe, and gain understanding of, new computing practices of e-Science.

Contact

Ongoing actions

• Data Collection and Publication
  • Integration of Dashboard data
  • Collection of LFC logs
• Models of the grid dynamics
  • Evaluation of the performance of the estimated response time (request from JRA1)
  • Real-time clustering
  • Multi-objective scheduling
• Dissemination, collaborations
  • Workshop “Grids meet autonomic Computing” at ICAC’09 – site to be created soon
  • Proposal of a joint OGF/EGEE session “From monitoring to analysis” at OGF25/UF4

Meetings

Istanbul community meeting September 2008

CEI defense May 2008

Portal design May 2008

Analysis meeting November 2007

Budapest session October 2007

Budapest group meeting October 2007

Analysis kickoff meeting October 2007

Resources

The Grid Observatory infosheet

Requirements from other EGEE activities

Workplan

Technical documentation

-- CharlesLoomis - 22 Jul 2008