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A web 2.0 user interface for wide-area resource monitoring

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Resource monitoring in distributed systems is required to understand the 'health' of the overall system and to help identify particular problems, such as dysfunctional hardware or faulty system or application software. Monitoring systems such as GridRM provide the ability to connect to any number of different types of monitoring agents and provide different views of the system, based on a client's particular preferences. Web 2.0 technologies, and in particular 'mashups', are emerging as a promising technique for rapidly constructing rich user interfaces, that combine and present data in intuitive ways. This paper describes a Web 2.0 user interface that was created to expose resource data harvested by the GridRM resource monitoring system.

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  • (2009)Using a RESTful Messaging and Registry System to Support a Range a Distributed ApplicationsProceedings of the 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing10.1109/ISPDC.2009.17(187-194)Online publication date: 30-Jun-2009
  • (2008)A Flexible Monitoring and Notification System for Distributed ResourcesProceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing10.1109/ISPDC.2008.29(31-38)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2008

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MG '08: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Mardi Gras conference: From lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: Understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability, and the incremental adoption of key capabilities
January 2008
178 pages
ISBN:9781595938350
DOI:10.1145/1341811
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  1. distributed systems
  2. mashups
  3. resource monitoring
  4. user interface
  5. web 2.0

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  • (2009)Using a RESTful Messaging and Registry System to Support a Range a Distributed ApplicationsProceedings of the 2009 Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing10.1109/ISPDC.2009.17(187-194)Online publication date: 30-Jun-2009
  • (2008)A Flexible Monitoring and Notification System for Distributed ResourcesProceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing10.1109/ISPDC.2008.29(31-38)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2008

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