Using Web Services for Performance Monitoring and Scheduling

The adoption of Web service standards provides us with an increased level of manageability, extensibility and interoperability between loosely coupled services.The adoption of Web services technologies atop sites for performance monitoring and scheduling will improve the efficient use of the computational resources. Web services provide the ability to decompose HPC resources and functionality into a set of discoverable and loosely coupled services, which are capable of interaction in heterogeneous environments. At the same time, Web services can address many of the interoperability issues that can be encountered in large scale systems.End users can access to these services to decide which system will be the most suitable for their needs. Other tools like schedulers can use the resources available as services to optimize the HPC resources and minimize jobs waiting time.