ScalingUpPVSS

Scaling Up PVSS

Purpose
Year 2004: Investigations into PVSS scalability

Status
Completed

Contact persons

Paul Burkimsher

Conclusions
130 System cluster [PDF]	Presented to JCOP November 2003
Alert Avalanches [PDF]	Presented to JCOP 26 February 2004
Description of the Traffic Generation Method and Panel [PDF]
Machine configuration summary [PDF]	Hardware spec of the machines used for the tests (as of April 2004)
Test 15: Lots local UIs to 1 Windows EM [PDF]
Test 18:Scattered Linux UIs[PDF]	Provided to JCOP 8 April 2004
Tests 28 and 29: PVSS Disturbance caused by heavy network traffic [PDF]
Test 31:What rate of DP changes do leaf nodes cope with? (No alerts.) [PDF]
Test 32: What rate of DP changes do leaf nodes cope with? (With alerts.) [PDF]
Test 34: Investigate behaviour when top node trends data from many leaf nodes [PDF]
Test 35: Investigate behaviour when top node displays alerts from many child nodes [PDF]
Test 38: What is the load of an alert definition on a PVSS system? [PDF]	Extra test requested by Framework Working Group
Test 39: RAM load of Alert definitions [PDF]
Test 40: 1xDPE changing N times vs NxDPEs changing once each [PDF]
Test 43: Step by Step Guide to Backing Up Your PVSS Production System [PDF]
Test 45: Task Allocation Investigations [PDF]
Phase II Conclusions document [PDF]
Test 46: NV Memory usage in a Distributed System with large component systems	A writeup following a support call.

A useful summary of the results of all of the above major tests can be found in the Paper presented at ICALEPCS 2005. (This is the same paper as the one linked to in the next section.)

Formal Presentations
Scaling Up PVSS - Overview [PDF]	An overview of the project presented to JCOP on 29 January 2003
Investigations into Potential Showstoppers [PDF]	Summary of results, as presented to JCOP on 22 July 2004
Abstract Paper Poster - Part 1 Poster - Part 2	Scaling Up PVSS Presented at ICALEPCS, October 2005, Geneva, Switzerland.

Project Management Documentation
Project Proposal [PDF]	Audience: Project stakeholders
Requirements Questionnaire [PDF]	Questionnaire used during requirements gathering Audience: Project leader
Synthesized Requirements [PDF]	The consolidated result of interviewing all the experiments. Audience: Project stakeholders
GDPM Project Plan [PDF]	Audience: Project stakeholders