System and Method Providing Object Messages in a Compute Environment

• US 20090187536A1
• Filed: 03/11/2005
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Cluster Resources, Inc. (Ala Services LLC)
• Inventors: Jackson, David B.
• Granted Patent: US 9,558,042 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/161 Computing infrastructure, e.g. computer clusters, blade chassis or hardware partitioning casings, cabinets, racks or drawers for data centers H05K5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5014 Reservation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5015 Service provider selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5022 Workload threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/503 Resource availability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/506 Constraint
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

The present invention provides a system, method and computer-readable media for creating object messages within a compute environment such as a cluster or grid. The method comprises upon an event affecting the availability or performance of an object within a cluster environment, retrieving messages related to the event from messages logs in different layers of a cluster environment. Next, the method comprises aggregating the retrieved messages into a single location, associating the aggregated messages with the object and, if a user submits a job and the performance of the job within the cluster environment is affected by the event, notifying the user of the event using the associated messages. Administrators may also create messages and associate the messages with objects such as nodes or reservations.

Claims

1. A method of creating object messages in a compute environment comprising multiple nodes under common management, the method comprising:

retrieving messages from messages logs from multiple layers of a compute environment including a node layer and at least one layer higher than the node layer;

aggregating the retrieved messages into a single location; and

associating the aggregated messages with an object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a node in the compute environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is one of a reservation, user, group of users, class, a QOS, a resources manager, a scheduler and a peer service interface.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon receiving an inquiry from a user regarding the object, presenting the user with the associated and aggregated messages.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one layer higher than the node layer is one of a resource manager layer, a cluster scheduler layer and a grid scheduler layer.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the managers are non-error managers.

5. A method of creating object messages in a compute environment comprising multiple nodes under common management for viewing by a user, the method comprising:

upon an event affecting the availability or performance of an object within a compute environment, retrieving messages related to the event from messages logs in different layers of the compute environment including a node layer and at least one layer higher than the node layer;

aggregating the retrieved messages into a single location;

associating the aggregated messages with the object; and

if a user submits a job and the performance of the job within the compute environment is affected by the event, notifying the user of the event using the associated messages.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the object is a node in the compute environment.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the object is one of a reservation, user, group of users, class, QOS, resources manager, scheduler and peer service interface.

8. A system for creating object messages in a compute environment, the system comprising:

means for retrieving messages from messages logs from multiple layers of a compute environment;

means for aggregating the retrieved messages into a single location; and

means for associating the aggregated messages with an object.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the object is a node in the compute environment.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the object is one of a reservation, user, group of users, class, QOS, resources manager, scheduler and peer service interface.

11. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

means for, upon receiving an inquiry from a user regarding the object, presenting the user with the associated and aggregated messages.

12. A system of creating object messages in a compute environment for viewing by a user, the system comprising:

means for, upon an event affecting the availability or performance of an object within a compute environment, retrieving messages related to the event from messages logs in different layers of the compute environment;

means for aggregating the retrieved messages into a single location;

means for associating the aggregated messages with the object; and

means for, if a user submits a job and the performance of the job within the cluster environment is affected by the event, notifying the user of the event using the associated messages.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the object is a node in the compute environment.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the object is one of a reservation, job, user, group of users, class, QOS, resources manager, scheduler and peer service interface.

15. A computer-readable medium comprising instructions for controlling a computing device to create an object messages in a compute environment comprising multiple nodes under common management, the instructions comprising the steps:

retrieving messages from messages logs from multiple layers of a compute environment including a node layer and at least one layer higher than the node layer;

aggregating the retrieved messages into a single location; and

associating the aggregated messages with an object.

16. A computer-readable medium comprising instructions for controlling a computing device to create object messages in a compute environment comprising multiple nodes under common management for viewing by a user, the instructions comprising the steps:

upon an event affecting the availability or performance of an object within the compute environment, retrieving messages related to the event from messages logs in different layers of the compute environment including a node layer and at least one layer higher than the node layer;

aggregating the retrieved messages into a single location;

associating the aggregated messages with the object; and

if a user submits a job and the performance of the job within the compute environment is affected by the event, notifying the user of the event using the associated messages.