NDLI: System resource accounting in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rana, B.K. Jacob, M. Balakrishnan, N.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: SERC, Bangalore, India (Rana, B.K.)
Abstract	The accounting tool, SAT, is designed to perform system resource accounting in a large, heterogeneous, distributed computing environment. The paper describes the design, implementation and operation of SAT. The tool is currently operational at Supercomputer Education And Research Centre (SERC) at Indian Institute Of Science. SERC is a large academic computing centre catering to the computing needs of the students and faculty, as well as to those of several paying users. SAT is equipped with both command line and graphical user interfaces. The software is developed using C-shell, Tcl, Expectk (Expect with TK), demonstrating the usability of these development languages. It is currently being used in an environment of a few hundred computers comprising SGI Iris, Indy, Indigo and Onyx machines, SUN Sparc20s, IBM RS6000s, a DEC VAX 8810, etc. Besides, the work brings out certain vagaries of connect time accounting in UNIX systems and the quality results of the software development process followed.
Starting Page	492
Ending Page	497
File Size	496194
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818680679
DOI	10.1109/HIPC.1997.634535
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-12-18
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Distributed computing Operating systems Software maintenance Central Processing Unit Software design Packaging Graphical user interfaces Usability Iris Sun
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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