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High Performing, Open Scalable Architecture
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- 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
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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
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- 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
- Resource Reservations can be expressed in phases, optimizing resource use for multi-stage workflows
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Ease of Use Features
- Delegated Administrative Rights
- Improved Management Console
- Application-centric job submission interfaces
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- 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
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Heterogeneous Platform Support
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- Leverage investments in existing IT resources
- Integrate clusters with multiple different platforms
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Advanced Self-Management
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- 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
- Automated job submission retries to accelerate job completion and minimize administrator intervention
- Guaranteed zero downtime with automated fail-over
- Assures business continuity and always-on availability
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Extensive Application Support
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- Protect existing software investment and seamlessly integrate with third-party applications
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Comprehensive, Extensible and Standards-based Security
- Optional Kerberos authentication
- Optional SSH authentication
- X11 tunneling via SSH
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- 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
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