The Inca Test Harness and Reporting Framework
- 1 April 2005
- proceedings article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
Virtual organizations (VOs), communities that enable coordinated resource sharing among multiple sites, are becoming more prevalent in the high-performance computing community. In order to promote cross-site resource usability, most VOs prepare service agreements that include a minimum set of common resource functionality, starting with a common software stack and evolving into more complicated service and interoperability agreements. VO service agreements are often difficult to verify and maintain, however, because the sites are dynamic and autonomous. Automated verification of service agreements is critical: manual and user tests are not practical on a large scale. The Inca test harness and reporting framework is a generic system for the automated testing, data collection, verification, and monitoring of service agreements. This paper describes Inca’s architecture, system impact, and performance. Inca is being used by the TeraGrid project to verify software installations, monitor service availability, and collect performance data.Keywords
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