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Table of Contents The OVIS High Performance Computing Monitoring, Analysis, and Visualization Project What is OVIS? Major Components Build quick reference More Info

The OVIS High Performance Computing Monitoring, Analysis, and Visualization Project

What is OVIS?

OVIS is a collection of sub-projects that, as an aggregate, provide HPC targeted capabilities for lightweight monitoring and high performance analysis and visualization of monitored information and events.

Major Components

• Lightweight Distributed Metric Service (LDMS) provides a low overhead monitoring, transport and storage capability.
• Baler provides a generic log file tagging, compression, and search capability.
• Scalable Object Store (SOS) provides a high performance storage and search capability.
• Visualization
• Analysis

Build quick reference

The current distribution includes only the LDMS monitoring, transport, and storage components.

• LDMS is downloadable here, at github. The current branch to pull is master.
• Information on building, configuration, and deployment can be found in the Documentation in the sidebar menu.
• The LDMS distribution comes with a complete set of man pages for each of the commands and plugins, as well as a Quick Start guide.

More Info

More information, including publications covering OVIS/LDMS and OVIS/Baler design and use can be found at the Sandia OVIS Wiki