[Beowulf] Performance metrics & reporting

[Carsten Aulbert]

Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, John Leidel wrote:
> 
>> what sort of data are you looking for?
> 
> To start with, CPU utilizatian, I/O statistics, network statistics, 
> memory utilization, those sorts of things.
> 
> I know there is a lot more that can be looked at for optimizing, but I 
> think this would be a good start at providing performance information 
> back to the users.  Particularly since I can implement this in an hour 
> or so and have it completely automated.

Another project I quite like from small testing seems to be collectd 
http://collectd.org/. Supposedly it's quite lightweight and scales well.

HTH

Carsten