Susanne M. Balle, John Bishop, David LaFrance-Linden,
and Howard Rifkin
Hewlett-Packard, MS ZKO2-3/Q08,
110 Spit Brook Road, Nashua, NH, 03062
emails: {Susanne.Balle, John.Bishop, David.LaFrance-Linden,
Howard.Rifkin}@hp.com
Abstract:
Like Ygdrasil, the world tree of Norse mythology, the Grid promises to cover the entire world, holding it together and feeding its inhabitants with data and processing power. Serving this potentially huge number of processors (1,000+) affects many software tools such as programming development tools, performance enhancement tools and system administration tools. These tools need to deal with massive amount of data created by the large number of processes as well as be scalable. The data need to be condensed and reorganized into useful information before it is presented to the user. We present a modular aggregating network toolkit, which can be tailored to almost any purpose involving reduction of data. The latter allows the user to visualize as well as re-arrange the data to fit his need (integration with statistical packages, visualization, etc.). The user can write his own plug-ins that fit his needs and thereby instruct the network about what is getting aggregated, how to aggregate the data (merge identical data, discard data, etc.), as well as how to display the data in the user portal.