Tutorial Topics & Descriptions

Basic LDMS Configuration 

This will be a hands-on tutorial where we will have attendees login to containers with LDMS and SOS installed and go through a series of exercises. 

• • exercise 1: Configuration and running samplers 

  • exercise 2: Configure aggregators

  • exercise 3: Storing Data in CSV Format

Deployment of LDMS Monitoring System Using Containers 

This tutorial introduces the deployment of an end-to-end LDMS monitoring infrastructure using containers. This infrastructure includes sampling, distribution, storage, analysis, and visualization.

• Pre-requisites to use LDMS in the containerized environment

• Deployment of the containers with pre-built LDMSD, DSOS, SOS, Maestro, and Grafana

• Container and network configuration

• Accessing data collected by LDMSD in the containers

LDMS Monitoring Infrastructure Load Balancing and Configuration with Maestro 

This tutorial will cover different load balancing options with Maestro as well as an in depth look at cluster configuration. Users will be able to deploy a small scale cluster with Maestro, and work with configuring/deploying different samplers.

• Brief overview of commands maestro/maestro_ctrl

• Configuration walkthrough

• Configuration examples

Analysis and Visualization for System and Application Improvement

This tutorial gives a brief overview of an analysis and visualization pipeline, application and system data co-collection, real-world use cases on production HPC systems, and a live demonstration of LDMS analysis examples. 

LDMS Metric Set Recomposition for Storage 

This tutorial will cover how to define a database independent mapping of figures of merit from an LDMS metric set to one or more database row-column definitions.

Provisioning the LDMS Monitoring Infrastructure on Large-scale Systems 

Practical methods for selecting the number of aggregators, aggregation levels, and storage bandwidth required for a large-scale system given the number of monitored components and metric sets.

Distributing LDMS Metric Data Using Avro on the Kafka Bus 

This tutorial will explore the efficient distribution of LDMS Metric set data on the Kafka bus. 

• Demonstrate the client reception of the various available kafka topics

• Demonstrate the client query of the available schema/subjects from the Schema Registry