CIS - Cluster Information Service (version 0.9.3)
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Copyright (C) 2000 Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Written by Jan Astalos (astalos.ui@savba.sk)

Description
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Cluster Information Service (CIS) provides information about 
availability of resources in Linux cluster. This information is necessary for 
workload allocation and better utilization of resources (CPU, memory and 
network). CIS is designed to have minimal impact on monitored system. Special
kernel probes allow to dramaticaly reduce the overhead of data acquisition. 
(On Pentium 550 MHz with 384 MB of memory top -d 1 uses 1.5 % of CPU and CIS
0.01 % of CPU). Monitored information includes system resources, processes,
sockets and network devices.

More information about CIS can be found at CIS homepage:
http://ups.savba.sk/parcom/cluster/cis.html

Availability
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Client libraries (RPC calls and record file processing) are distributed under
the terms of LGLP public license. Any other parts of CIS in this package are
distributed under the terms of GPL public license.

All programs in this package are distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GPL or LGPL
for more details.
 
You should have received a copies of the GPL and LGPL along with
this package; if not, write the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place - Suite 330, Boston MA 02111-1307, USA.

Available platforms
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CIS is available for OS Linux, kernel version 2.2, architecture i*86.
Sorry, no other platforms are available at this time...

Comments and bug-reports
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CIS is still under development. If you encounter any problems feel free to
send me an e-mail.

Enjoy.

Jan Astalos (astalos.ui@savba.sk)

