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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 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.
• Information on building, configuration, and deployment can be found at LDMS FAQ
• 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 design and use can be found at the OVIS Wiki