High Performing, Open Scalable Architecture

• JSDL support

• Run Platform LSF on Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (Platform 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
• Cluster topology awareness

• 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