Towards a uniform monitoring framework supporting interoperability in grid

Many existing monitoring systems are not easily interoperable for the lack of consistency. A uniform monitoring framework is proposed to leverage interoperability. A consistent data provider is designed upon GAM producers to facilitate common information representation. Monitoring service agent and republishers are developed to facilitate the information distribution and aggregation. A prototype is implemented based on monitoring tools such as Ganglia, GridView, and PBS, etc. Experiments are given to show the good feasibility and scalability.