Overseer: low-level hardware monitoring and management for Java

TitleOverseer: low-level hardware monitoring and management for Java
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsPeternier, A., D. Bonetta, W. Binder, and C. Pautasso
Conference Name9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ ’11)
Pages143–146
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN978-1-4503-0935-6
Keywordshardware performance counters, Java, monitoring, Overseer
Abstract

The high-level and portable nature of the Java platform allows applications to be written once and executed on all the supported systems. However, such a feature comes at the cost of hardware abstraction, making it more difficult or even impossible to access several low-level functionalities. Overseer is a Java framework that makes it possible on Linux systems by simplifying access to real-time measurement of low-level data such as Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs), IPMI sensors, and Java VM internal events. Overseer supports functionalities such as HPC-management, process/thread affinity settings, hardware topology identification, as well as power-consumption and temperature monitoring. In this paper we describe Overseer and how to use it to extend Java applications with functionalities not provided by the default runtime. A public release of Overseer is available.

DOI10.1145/2093157.2093179
Citation Keyoverseer:2011:pppj
Refereed DesignationRefereed