Using AOP to Monitor and Administer Software for Grid Computing Environments Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3831921, abstract = {Monitoring is a task of collecting measurements that reflect the state of a system. Administration is a collection of tasks for control and manipulation of computer systems. Monitoring and Administering computer ResourceS (MARS) in a distributed grid computing environment (i.e. a distributed environment for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations) is an important, expensive, and critical task. We present a novel solution based on applying crosscuts using binary rewriters and an event-based model that allows developers to create non-trivial MARS programs easily and uniformly. Our approach converts low-level API resource calls intosystem-wide events that MARS programs can monitor. This is accomplished by introducing advice that contains event-generating code at join points in programs that represent computer resources. We categorize low-level resource APIs by imposing a transactional metaphor to simplify the complexity of interactions between resources and to enable reasoning about MARS programs. We report both a case study and simulation that supports the viability of our approach.}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Grechanik, Mark and Perry, Dewayne E. and Batory, Don}, booktitle = {COMPSAC '05: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05) Volume 1}, citeulike-article-id = {3831921}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1090943.1091090}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.167}, doi = {10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.167}, isbn = {0-7695-2413-3-01}, keywords = {aop, distributed}, pages = {241--248}, posted-at = {2008-12-28 16:45:18}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Using AOP to Monitor and Administer Software for Grid Computing Environments}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.167}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3831921 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3831921 N2 - Monitoring is a task of collecting measurements that reflect the state of a system. Administration is a collection of tasks for control and manipulation of computer systems. Monitoring and Administering computer ResourceS (MARS) in a distributed grid computing environment (i.e. a distributed environment for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations) is an important, expensive, and critical task. We present a novel solution based on applying crosscuts using binary rewriters and an event-based model that allows developers to create non-trivial MARS programs easily and uniformly. Our approach converts low-level API resource calls intosystem-wide events that MARS programs can monitor. This is accomplished by introducing advice that contains event-generating code at join points in programs that represent computer resources. We categorize low-level resource APIs by imposing a transactional metaphor to simplify the complexity of interactions between resources and to enable reasoning about MARS programs. We report both a case study and simulation that supports the viability of our approach. SN - 0-7695-2413-3-01 AD - Washington, DC, USA EP - 248 TI - Using AOP to Monitor and Administer Software for Grid Computing Environments PB - IEEE Computer Society T2 - COMPSAC '05: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05) Volume 1 SP - 241 KW - aop KW - distributed AU - Grechanik, Mark AU - Perry, Dewayne AU - Batory, Don PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.167 ER -