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Intelligent Workload Management

The right tools make all the difference.

Moab is intelligent management middleware that combines scheduling, managing, monitoring, and reporting of cluster workloads.

Moab integrates with a resource manager to generate maximum job throughput and to guarantee service levels are met. Moab’s intelligent orchestration capabilities enable computing environments that are both efficient and adaptive, even in highly complex environments.

Moab manages many of the largest clusters and grids in the world. It is licensed on more of the Top500 compute resources than any competitor’s solution.

Benefits:

• Increase hardware efficiency 10%-30% for 90%-99% utilization
• Simplify use, access, and control for both users and administrators
• Ensure quality-of-service guarantees and service-level agreements are met
• Integrate and unify management across diverse resources and environments in clusters or grids
• Track, diagnose, and report on cluster workload and status information
• Gain control with automated tasks, policies, and reporting to reduce administrative burden

Looking for a mixed Windows/Linux cluster solution?

The Moab Hybrid Cluster Solution uses Moab to change a node’s operating system on the fly in response to workload needs.

As an intelligent metascheduler, Moab determines when the OS mix should be modified for optimal efficiency, based on defined policies and service-level agreements and on current and projected workload. When specified conditions are met, Moab automatically triggers the OS change using a site’s preferred OS-modification technology, such as dual boot, diskfull or diskless provisioning, or virtualization (using Hyper-V within Windows HPC Server 2008, VMware, or XenWare).

Benefits:

• Maximize HPC resource utilization by eliminating costly, inflexible OS-specific resource silos and thereby accomplishing more with your existing resources
• Simplify the use and management of mixed-cluster environments with a unified interface and automated service-level enforcement
• Balance resource usage between OS environments by dynamically adapting from one OS to the other based on workload and policies
• Respond to workload surges with dynamic adaptation of the OS mix
• Automate full business processes that include both Windows and Linux applications
• Tune and reserve the future OS environment mix based on scheduled activities and historical usage patterns

PCPC Direct is proud to be one of a handful of partners in the US authorized to design and build HPC solutions featuring Moab.

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