Workload Management
Workload Management
Platform HPC Workgroup Edition includes Platform LSF Workgroup Edition, a user-friendly, workload management solution created specifically for workgroup and departmental clusters.
This product is for new adopters of HPC technology and is designed to make their first experience with Platform and rack- or blade-based servers a seamless transition from their current computing environment. Powered by Platform LSF, the industry’s most powerful, comprehensive, policy-driven workload management solution for engineering and scientific distributed computing environments Platform LSF Workgroup Edition is the solution to improve end user productivity with only rudimentary computer system administrative effort. This product allows engineering and scientific teams to easily access and share all existing computing resources, and reduce the time between simulation iterations.
Features and Benefits:
- Full-featured Platform LSF
- Pre-configured, ready to run
- Advanced workload management features
- Integrated web-based management GUI
- Job submission portal
- Application-centric Interfaces
- Support for MPI-based parallel workloads
- Licensed to 32 cluster nodes
Platform LSF Workgroup Edition provides advanced scheduling capabilities.
| Facility/Feature | Platform LSF Workgroup Edition |
|---|---|
Basic workload management functions | √ |
Easy to use web interfaces | √ |
Advance reservation support | √ |
Backfill scheduling (for parallel jobs) | √ |
Pre-emption | √ |
Fair share based scheduling | √ |
Application profile support | √ |
Parallel job scheduling | √ |
Full parallel job control | √ |
Parallel job accounting | √ |
Topology aware scheduling | √ |
SQL accessible reporting subsystem | √ |
Time based configuration | √ |
Built-in, ready for use:
Workload management in Platform HPC Workgroup Edition is tightly integrated and extremely powerful. Advanced users may choose to interact with a well documented command line interface, however new cluster users will appreciate that jobs can be monitored and managed entirely through the web interface. When Platform HPC Workgroup Edition is installed, the Platform LSF Workgroup Edition is automatically included, configured, and made ready for use with the industry’s most comprehensive set of queues and scheduling policies. This makes sophisticated workload management available for use immediately. All that is required of the administrator is to give permissions to cluster users, through the management console, allowing them to submit jobs to the cluster.
Web management and application portals:
Features like application aware job submission, job monitoring, management and reporting are all included in the workload management software. As you add or remove hosts, or change the software stacks deployed to different types of nodes, the cluster configuration files change automatically, providing a single point of administration. Competing solutions often require that the cluster manager and workload manager be separately configured resulting in additional work for busy administrators and an increased opportunity for error. Most customers will appreciate the ease of installation, the ease of management, the compatibility and the extensibility offered by the direct integration of Platform LSF Workgroup Edition with Platform HPC Workgroup Edition.
