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Features & Benefits

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Platform LSF Features & Benefits 

 Features Benefits
High Performing, Open Scalable Architecture
  • JSDL support
  • Run Platform LSF on Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO), the first and only infrastructure platform, that delivers a shared virtualized pool of IT resources to meet the demand of multiple application types based on business policies
  • Proven, risk-free investment with over 2,000 customers, including deployments in over 100+ clusters in multi-cluster environment, 200,000 CPUs and 500,000 active jobs per cluster 
Comprehensive Set of Intelligent Scheduling Policies
  • Fairshare
  • Preemption
  • Advance Reservation
  • Resource Reservation
  • Adaptive SLA Scheduling that self-tunes based on job execution history
  • Core-aware scheduling
  • Dynamically resizable jobs
  • Dynamic run-time estimation
  • Ensures the right resources are automatically allocated to the right users for maximum efficiency
  • Meets service level agreements for various users and projects
  • Provides extensive control to support multiple policy centers
  • Ensures workload is executed reliably and on time
  • Guarantees optimal resource utilization
  • Take maximum advantage of multi-core processors
    Expand and shrink allocated resources dynamically allowing jobs to start and finish faster

Ease of Use Features

  • Delegated Administrative Rights
  • Improved Management Console
  • Application-centric job submission interfaces
  • Reduce administrative effort
  • Empower departmental project managers and team leaders by delegating selective administrative controls
  • Manage workloads through an intuitive web interface
  • Reduce user-training requirements
  • Reduce job submission errors
 Heterogeneous Platform Support
  • Leverage investments in existing IT resources
  • Integrate clusters with multiple different platforms
 Advanced Self-Management
  • Self-healing to reduce administration and management costs and ensures jobs are never lost for a lowered Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Guaranteeing reliable execution by check-pointing and automatically restarting or re-running jobs in case of failure
  • Adaptive to dynamically allocate resources to changing IT infrastructure
  • Resilient workload execution for superior fault tolerance
  • Guaranteed zero downtime with automated fail-over
  • Assures business continuity and always-on availability
 Extensive Application Support
  •  Protect existing software investment and seamlessly integrate with third-party applications
Comprehensive, Extensible and Standards-based Security
  • Optional Kerberos authentication
  • Optional SSH authentication
  • Secure access to computing resources ensuring only authorized users gain access to a cluster
  • Secure, transparent access to local and remote data files
  • Use X-Windows applications interactively without compromising security