On-Demand Enterprise on GroundWork & Ganglia
August 28, 2008 - 2:54 pmContinuing the Ganglia and grid theme of this week, Dennis Barker at On-Demand Enterprise (previously known as GRID Today) has written an extensive article about the use of Ganglia and GroundWork in large scale grid and cluster environments.
Article excerpt:
“GroundWork Open Source has been doing it since 2004, and probably has the most extensive system out there for large networks, on par capability-wise with the packages from the large, commercial companies. In fact, IDC analyst Tracy Corbo describes GroundWork’s offering as a “framework for system management” rather than just a performance-monitoring program…..Probably the best example of GroundWork “pulling in” other capabilities is its tie-in to Ganglia, the open source monitoring system developed specifically for large distributed environments like clusters and grids. Ganglia is used by serious customers: NASA; the National Institutes of Health; San Diego Supercomputing Center; Boeing; Lockheed-Martin; HP; Dell; Microsoft; Cisco; and Sun, where it’s part of the Grid Infrastructure reference architecture.”