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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 misfortunes, 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. PCP 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. Here is an example of using Python and Blender to visualize PCP data (registration may be required). The PCP dev community is well and active, and includes several of the original team members."
Don't fall for the hype. SGI systems make terrible lawnmowers and they did NOTHING to prevent my house from being vandalized by neighborhood hoods in hoodies. I tried to return mine and go back to the old domesticated ruminant method but they would not refund me ... WTF???!?!? Now I am stuck with this useless box of junk and my lawn still looks like shit. Fuck SGI and fuck all you fanboyz.
Alright, I'm an idiot, but I first read OSS as a co-pilot and thought we were replacing someone in the cockpit with something hackable.