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SUMMARY:Distributed monitoring and information services for the Grid - Jen
 nifer Schopf\, Argonne National Laboratory &amp\; National eScience Centre
 \, Edinburgh
DTSTART:20051206T140000Z
DTEND:20051206T150000Z
UID:TALK4631@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Mark Hayes
DESCRIPTION:Monitoring and information services form a key component of an
 y deployed Grid. As testbeds are achieving basic functionality\, more and 
 more emphasis is being placed on the discovery of available resources and 
 the monitoring of their status. Current Grid information and monitoring sy
 stems are being used in different and more extensive ways than originally 
 planned\, and current systems are finding difficulty meeting today's monit
 oring challenges.\n\nThis talk gives an overview of the design and archite
 cture of the Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS4)\, the information syst
 em portion of the Globus Toolkit 4. As part of the WSRF core\, every servi
 ce can participate as a first class member in this broader MDS by publishi
 ng data about itself\, so monitoring in this environment has changed drama
 tically. We discuss what monitoring and discovery looks like in a Grid ser
 vices world\, and what future work is needed to make users happy. We also 
 present preliminary performance results for MDS4\n\n
LOCATION:MR4\, DAMTP
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