Introduction to the project

The PowerMon project concerns the acquisition and the publication of data on the power consumption of LAL¹'s Data Center (Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur linéaire) , member of GRIF (Grille de Recherche d'Ile de France) and the EGEE² grid.

The project thus will relate to the creation of the first whole publicly available data of this type. TOC(inline)

Objectives

The purpose of the project is to :

• Supply data usable for various researches in the form of time series .
• Allow monitoring of LAL’s machine rooms for infrastructure planning and optimisation

How ?

The first step was to implement tools to collect the data about individual machine power consumption and load : Python scripts, running every 5 minutes are used for these acquisition . A prototype based on 32 machines is actually operational, while 300 are planned

The collected data are then stored in a unique SQL database allowing easy and diverse selections

Finally, visualization tools allowing correlations between these series are being developed .

¹ ​http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/

² ​http://www.eu-egee.org/