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Dear Linux-Weekly News Team, As a long-time Linux-User i read and follow your very good Linux+News Service. I want to make a compliment on your support of open-source software and i also want to use this to call your attention to a new Cluster-management software for Linux. This software is based on the MOSIX-Cluster technologie (www.mosix.org) and i developed it in co-operation with the technical University of Jerusalem. It is called MOSIXVIEW and contains some helpfull, MOSIX-specific application for the cluster-management: -MOSIXVIEW is the main-application. You can manage your whole cluster with it. -MOSIXVIEW-Client is a process-box for local and remote process-management. -MOSIXCOLLECTOR is a demon which logs serious information about the cluster. -MOSIXLOAD analyze the logfiles from MOSIXCOLLECTORS about the MOSIX-load and displays them in a graphical way. -MOSIXMEM is a graphical Logfile-Analyzer which shows the used memory. -MOSIXHISTORY contains the process-history. Computing-capacity today is becoming more and more serious because of the mass of data and computing intensive applications. That is why cluster-technologies are more and more interesting for the IT-world. To reduce management activities the graphical user-interface MOSIXVIEW was developed. You could manage a nearly infinite number of hosts with it. Configurations changes can be done for the whole cluster or single-nodes. The man-window displays serious informatioins about the state of the cluster e.g. the efficiency of load-balancing or the whole memory-use. The MOSIXVIEW-client is for processmanagement. It is like a graphical "top". You can e.g. migrate processes to another cluster-node with a double-click. Even remote processes are manageable. Long-time calculations can be reviewed by the collected date from the MOSIXCOLLECTOR. MOSIXLOAD, MOSIXMEM and MOSIXHISTORY is for the graphical displaying of the logfile-data. There is the option to set checkpoint to syncronise the data. Checkpoints are highlighted in MOSIXLOAD and MOSIXMEM. You can analyze which node computes, when, with which load and used memory. A even more detailed view of what happened on the cluster in a special moment you can have with the MOSIXHISTORY. The processlist of the cluster is displayed in a similar way than in the MOSIXVIEW-client but contains the data from the past (from the logfiles). The moment you want to analyze can be changed easily with a "time-slider". MOSIXVIEW is free for download and is based on the GPL-licence model. It tooks nearly 6 months to develop it. It was developed in C/C++ and QT (www.trolltech.com). More informations you can get at: http://www.mosixview.com or http://www.waplocater.de/mosixview/ Now MOSIXVIEW is used by many universities and in the HPC-World and slowy "walks" into some Linux-distributions (e.g. Debian Linux). If you would like to have an article about this software in your future issue i would be very glad. Simply ask me if you need further informations (e.g. screenshots). Best Regards, Matthias Rechenburg -- E-mail :rechenburger@netcologne.de www :http://www.mosixview.com a MOSIX-cluster management GUI