{"id":5166,"date":"2025-04-27T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwww.crs4.it\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2025-04-27T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T18:53:51","slug":"mucca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/en\/technology-catalogue\/mucca\/","title":{"rendered":"M.U.C.C.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>M.U.C.C.A.<\/h3>\n<h3>Manager Utility for Clusters and Computers Administration<\/h3>\n<div class=\"sm_hr\"><\/div>\n<h4>Contact<\/h4>\n<div>Michele Muggiri,\u00a0<a class=\"linkurl\" href=\"mailto:valorisation@crs4.it\">valorisation@crs4.it<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Publication date: 01\/2009<\/h3>\n<h3>Last update: 05\/2020<\/h3>\n<h4>Challenge<\/h4>\n<p>Software-based management of complex and heterogeneous IT infrastructures from a single point of access.<\/p>\n<h4>Overview<\/h4>\n<p>M.U.C.C.A. is a single-access, flexible and modular platform for managing heterogeneous computing clusters and other IT ancillary systems based on the following tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DB to store info about status, configurations, usage and operation reports;<\/li>\n<li>Various shell scripts to collect and analyse data in an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network, perform jobs, automate DB management and data presentation;<\/li>\n<li>Web interface;<\/li>\n<li>GREEN (https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/results\/technology-catalogue\/green\/) an energy-saving toolkit to switch on\/off computing nodes on the basis of the queue load and resources usage, guaranteeing considerable savings in terms of both energy and costs;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Keywords<\/h4>\n<p>Advanced computing; Web and information systems; Database systems; Information retrieval and digital libraries; Collaborative systems; IoT.<\/p>\n<h4>Status<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Currently used for the management of the CRS4 HPC centre:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>All components are developed using open source software (Apache; MariaDB; PhP 5 e 7; HTML5; Bash);<\/li>\n<li>General release 2.11 fully and regularly updated;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Technology Readiness Level (TRL): 6;<\/li>\n<li>Web interface not mobile-optimised.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Innovative features<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Portability across systems (tested in a production environment on Windows, Linux and Android architectures);<\/li>\n<li>It runs on a variety of different communication protocols (LDAP; SNMP; SSH; SSL; High-low);<\/li>\n<li>Centralised service access control and management;<\/li>\n<li>Modular scalability;<\/li>\n<li>Ease of use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Potential users<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Administrators of complex cluster systems and\/or ancillary equipment (e. g. clusters with independent cooling units);<\/li>\n<li>Users of computing facilities gaining visual access to information with different granularity about jobs submitted and\/or running on cluster nodes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Impact sectors<\/h4>\n<p>High Performance Computing &#8211; HPC; Virtual machines service management; Multi-user and multi-workstation systems management.<\/p>\n<h4>Other resources<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mucca.crs4.int\/\">http:\/\/mucca.crs4.int\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.U.C.C.A. 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