Inca

Project Information

Discipline
Computer Science (401) 
Orientation
Research 
Abstract

Inca is a user-level monitoring tool that has been used successfully in cyberinfrastructure (CI) projects such as the TeraGrid and other similar projects. Its flexible architecture enables multiple types of functionality and performance data to easily be collected about the systems it is monitoring. A unique centralized monitoring configuration approach makes Inca easy to setup and maintain on multiple systems and lends to consistent monitoring results.

Intellectual Merit

Inca aims to improve the reliability of CI systems by simplifying the process of deploying and managing a monitoring system to detect user-level failures and provide support to troubleshoot and resolve problems.

Broader Impacts

Since these CI systems are used by a broad and diverse user base, Inca benefits multiple areas of science and engineering.

Project Contact

Project Lead
Shava Smallen (ssmallen) 
Project Manager
Shava Smallen (ssmallen) 
Project Members
Renan DelValle, Jessica Hartog, Inca Account, Mike Lowe  

Resource Requirements

Hardware Systems
  • hotel (IBM iDataPlex at U Chicago)
  • india (IBM iDataPlex at IU)
  • sierra (IBM iDataPlex at SDSC)
 
Use of FutureGrid

The Inca team would be interested in using FutureGrid to do release testing and scalability testing of the Inca software.

Scale of Use

One to tens of VMs.

Project Timeline

Submitted
11/23/2010 - 17:15 
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