Submission + - SGI's Open Source Performance Co-Pilot
codesmythe writes: The fates, through
SGI nee Rackable,
have granted a
new beginning
to Silicon Valley's once darling
Silicon Graphics.
Despite old mistakes and economic challenges, Silicon Graphics' engineering contributions
are legendary: their systems
(Oh, the systems!),
and software such as the well
known OpenGL
and the little known
Performance Co-Pilot
(a.k.a. PCP).
Performance Co-Pilot is an enterprise-class open source system monitoring,
measurement, and visualization infrastructure — overlooked in last fall's
monitoring tool discussion
.
Since its proprietary beginning in 1993, PCP has been re-released
as open source and ported to all major operating systems.
Readers of Slashdot's recent
Beginning Python Visualization
book review will be pleased to hear there are
Python interfaces
to PCP data sources. An example of using Python to visualize PCP
data can be seen
here.
The PCP dev community is well and active, and includes several
of the original team members.
