A Resource-Autonomy Based Monitoring Architecture for Grids?

Abstract. Grid computing becomes more and more popular in inte-grating distributed heterogeneous resources. Despite all that, efficient monitoring to resources of different ownership in Grids remains a chal-lenge. In this paper a novel resource-autonomy based grid monitoring architecture named PIMISA (Plug-In Monitoring and Information Ser-vice Architecture) is proposed to address this problem. GMA and SOA are subtly explored in the “Two-Level-Logic ” philosophy of PIMISA: only measurement and control metadata of resources are globally pub-lished, while monitoring data communication between elements of differ-ent ownerships are handled by means of service invocation. The moni-toring within the scope of an ownership follows a close-loop structure: a dynamic configurable set of management logic is kept, and resource states are analyzed at real time so that corresponding control indica-tions could be made by decision-making. Moreover, above procedure can be achieved by a “Third-Party Mount ” mode to leverage caused load on resources proportion to their capabilities. A prototype is currently under development, and therefore, the implementation scheme of PIMISA is presented in mathematical format.