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




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E-mail	:rechenburger@netcologne.de
www	:http://www.mosixview.com
a MOSIX-cluster management GUI