Heterogeneous Linux Cluster Management: Scali Manage

Scali Architecture and Concepts

• Installing Scali Manage
• Using the Scali Manage GUI
• Maintaining Clusters
• Monitoring/Alarming the Data Center
• Managing Systems
• Parallel Shell Tools
• Scali Manage Command Line Interfaces
• Scali Reporting System

Designed to improve performance, increase uptime, and lower support costs of your clustered environment, Scali Manage optimizes the deployment and ongoing "running/administration" of your high performance environment. It is the most complete, integrated, and flexible cluster management and monitoring system commercially available. Scali Manage comes complete with comprehensive tools for system installation, configuration, management, and monitoring. It includes links with leading job scheduling environments and with all of the major "lower level" hardware management tools. Because Scali Manage runs across all of the leading hardware platforms, it gives you the flexibility to leverage the latest technologies as your environment expands. Scali Manage maximizes the amount of work clusters do, while reducing their operating cost and complexity. 

LSF 7 Update 3 with Session Scheduler

• Introducing improvements to Platform LSF
• New session scheduling tools to handle large volumes of short duration tasks
• Additions of important customer-requested features
• Overview of Platform LSF Updates 1 and 2
• A look to Platform LSF Updates 4 and 5

Platform LSF 7 Update 3 provides many enhancements to make Platform LSF users more productive while simplifying cluster management and improving performance and reliability. This important release addresses numerous customer requirements including simplified resource definition, better control over advance reservations, more granular configuration of job re-queue, pre-execution, pre-emption and checkpoint related policies. The new Platform LSF Session Scheduler makes Platform LSF ideally suited to schedule the large numbers of relatively short duration tasks increasingly found in applications such as electronic simulation and device verification.

While the focus of this session will be Platform LSF 7 Update 3, it will review the benefits and functionality delivered in Platform LSF 7 Updates 1 and 2, and look forward to future functionality planned for Update 4 and Update 5.

Platform Analytics Solution version 7 Product Preview

• Learn about tools that help you complete projects quickly and efficiently
• Find out how to collect precise data from Platform LSF clusters
• Use Platform Analytics solution to manage projects in cluster environment
• Manage use of application license

Platform Analytics Solution version 7 is the next release of our analytics product, which is due in June 2008. This product preview and demo is targeted for project planners who are interested in tools to ensure their projects to complete quickly and in the most cost effective manner in their LSF environment.

Clusters Made Simple: Platform Open Cluster Stack 5

Overview & Introduction

• Features and Functionality for the ALL NEW Platform Open
• Cluster Stack (OCS) Provisioning and Management Software
• Deployment and Management Best Practices

Hands-on Workshop

• GUI Intro & Walk-Thru
• Clustered Nodes Configuration
• Real-time Platform OCS5 Implementation
• System Management & Monitoring Tools

Platform OCS 5 is an all new and improved provisioning and management software package designed to enable analysts, engineers, & scientists to exploit the power of High Performance Computing (HPC) and maximize productivity and time to results. Platform OCS 5 is designed as an integrated set of technologies and tools to simplify the deployment and management for Linux-based Clusters. Platform is delivering to the industry’s demand for technology streamlining providing software that simplifies a system’s run of life including; building, running, and managing a Linux cluster. Today, enabled by Platform OCS 5, configurations that could take weeks and hours to provision can be reduced to mere minutes. The new single management interface now allows administrators and users to treat the entire cluster as a single system even if it is built out of hundreds or even thousands of varied technologies.

Platform OCS 5 provides an arsenal of built in tools to provision, manage and maintain clusters. The embedded workload management tools simplify running applications while the application development tools, themselves, are now included to help port your applications to the clustered environment. Designed with adherence to strict industry standards, Platform OCS 5 is also certified to the Intel Cluster Ready (ICR) guidelines and incorporates the latest open source cluster tools.