Cluster manager
A Cluster manager usually is a backend GUI or command-line software that runs on one or all cluster nodes (in some cases it runs on a different server or cluster of management servers.) The cluster manager works together with a cluster management agent. These agents run on each node of the cluster to manage and configure services, a set of services, or to manage and configure the complete cluster server itself (see super computing.) In some cases the cluster manager is mostly used to dispatch work for the cluster (or cloud) to perform. In this last case a subset of the cluster manager can be a remote desktop application that is used not for configuration but just to send work and get back work results from a cluster. In other cases the cluster is more related to availability and load balancing than to computational or specific service clusters.
Some Proprietary solutions
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Cluster Management Papers
- Adaptive Control of Extreme-scale Stream Processing Systems Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of the linear road benchmark on the stream processing core Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data.
- Parallel Job Scheduling A Status Report (2004) 10th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, New-York, NY, June 2004.
- Condor-G: A Computation Management Agent for Multi-Institutional Grids Springer Journal Cluster Computing Volume 5, Number 3 / July, 2002
- From clusters to the fabric: the job management perspective Cluster Computing, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on
- An Overview of the Galaxy Management Framework for Scalable Enterprise Cluster Computing IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'00), 2000.
- Performance and Interoperability Issues in Incorporating Cluster Management Systems within a Wide-Area Network-Computing Environment ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2000: High Performance Networking and Computing.
- DIRAC: a scalable lightweight architecture for high throughput computing Grid Computing, 2004. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on
- AgentTeamwork: Coordinating grid-computing jobs with mobile agents Springer Journal Applied Intelligence Volume 25, Number 2 / October, 2006
- Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center UC Berkeley Tech Report, May, 2010
Autonomic Computing
Fault Tolerance
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