Platform Manager is designed to improve performance, increase uptime, and lower support costs of your High Performance Computing (HPC) environment.

Platform Manager is the most complete, integrated, and flexible cluster management and monitoring system commercially available. A key product in the Platform Manage suite, it optimizes cluster deployment and ongoing administration. Platform Manager offers 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. Platform Manager runs on most industry leading hardware platforms so you can leverage the latest technologies, maximize the amount of work clusters do, and reduce operating cost and complexity.

Platform Manager Datasheet 

Platform Manager Integration with Platform LSF Datasheet

What's new in Platform Manager 5.7.1

• Extended ability to leverage latest versions of leading workload managers: 
  • Platform LSF support for version 7 Update 3
  • Altair PBS Pro 9.2
• Expanded support for new OS versions:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
  • CentOS 5.2
• Extended support of hardware platforms, enabling users the ability and flexibility to leverage new technologies of their choice:
  • Dell – PowerEdge 2970
  • HP:  BL2x220c G5, BL260c G5, BL465 G5, DL165 G5, DL180 G5, DL185 G5, DL385 G5, DL585 G5.
  • IBM: HS21-XM, LS21, LS41, X3455, X3650, X3655

Other enhancements since the launch of Platform Manager 5.7

• Platform LSF integration – Extending your investment
  • Application-aware High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure management through integration with Platform LSF 7 and Platform LSF 6.2
  • Provides greater visibility into cluster operations by linking hardware management directly to the applications running on the Platform LSF clusters
  • Streamlines installation, provisioning and configuration of Platform LSF clusters
  • Single common interface shared by Platform LSF and Platform Manager optimizing application troubleshooting
  • Proactive monitoring and management of Platform LSF hosts, jobs and queues
    • provides visibility into application resource usage
    • allows detailed drill-down to individual jobs, queues and nodes
    • leverages automated actions and alarms to manage job queues and identify suspect nodes
• New ability to configure and manage LDAP clients through the Platform Manage GUI and CLI
• Full GUI support for NFS exports and mounts
• New hardware platforms supported:
  • SGI Altix ICE+
  • SGI Virtu VN200
  • Dell PowerEdge 860
  • Dell M600/M605 blades
  • HP DL160
  • Supermicro 8015C/8025C 

How you can benefit from Platform Manager 

• Faster cluster, server farm and grid deployments let you automate the process of starting from "bare metal" and build an entire cluster across a wide variety of hardware platforms.
• Simple administration through a single point of management provides a user-friendly interface to automate installation, configuration, updating, and monitoring of complex heterogeneous environments
• Application and service-based provisioning with support for intelligent provisioning, allows you to deploy multiple systems quickly
• Support for heterogeneous environments provides the tools you need to manage the most complex HPC environments

Facts about Platform Manager 

• Automate deployment with an easy to use wizard that walks you through key aspects of deployment and automates time consuming implementation steps
• Quickly provision additional machines with a "golden" image of the configuration
• Update and modify your cluster through a single point of management, regardless of the hardware platforms
• Anticipate potential issues and plan updates and upgrades easily with a full suite of monitoring and alarming capabilities, including a unique fault prediction algorithm that leverages statistical models to proactively highlight potential problems
• Restore clusters to full operation quickly with faster root cause analysis that offers quick access to detailed levels of information
• Capture information about cluster use in a resource usage database to gain a clear understanding of the cluster workload so you can better leverage all available resources
• Ensure highly available installations with Platform Manager/HA, an extension to Platform Manager
• Combine cluster management functionality of Platform Manager with the workload management capabilities of Platform LSF. Both solutions are now integrated to share a single interface