Transcript Platform Computing

IBM Platform LSF
Industry-leading workload management
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Platform Computing
IBM Platform Computing
Leader in cluster, grid and HPC cloud management software
• Acquired by IBM in 2012 as part of mainstream Technical
Computing strategy
• 20 year history delivering leading workload and resource
management software for high-performance application
environments
• 2500+ global customers including 23 of 30 largest enterprises
• Market leading scheduling engine with high-performance,
mission-critical reliability and extreme scalability
• Comprehensive capability footprint from ready-to-deploy
complete cluster systems to large global grids
• Heterogeneous systems support
De facto
Standard for
Commercial
HPC
60% of top
Financial
Services
Over 5 MM
CPUs under
management
• Large ISV and global partner ecosystem
• Global professional services, training and support coverage
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Businesses Need to Overcome Infrastructure Limitations
To maximize the value of compute and data-intensive applications
Future
Today
Application
Examples
• Simulation
• Analysis
• Design
• Big data
Application A
(Packaged ISV)
Application B
(Custom, MPI)
Application C
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Application
Platform Computing
IT constrained
• Long wait times
• Low utilization
• IT Sprawl
Repeated
for many
applications
and groups
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Benefits
• High utilization
• Throughput
• Performance
• Prioritization
• Reduced cost
• Clusters
• Grid
• HPC Cloud
Faster time
to results
VIRTUALIZED VIEW OF COMPUTE, NETWORK AND STORAGE RESOURCES
VIRTUALIZED VIEW OF COMPUTE, NETWORK AND STORAGE RESOURCES
Use fewer
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IBM Platform Computing Accelerates Business Results
For technical computing and analytics distributed computing environments
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Optimizes
Workload
Management
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Batch and highly parallelized
Policy & resource-aware scheduling
Service level agreements
Automation / workflow
Aggregates
Resource
Pools
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Compute & Data intensive apps
Heterogeneous resources
Physical, virtual, cloud
Easy user access
Delivers
Shared
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Multiple user groups, sites
Multiple applications and workloads
Governance (intelligent policies)
Administration/ Reporting / Analytics
Transforms Static
Infrastructure to
Dynamic
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Workload-driven dynamic clusters
Bursting and “in the cloud”
Enhanced self-service / on-demand
Multi-hypervisor and multi-boot
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IBM Platform Computing Offerings
Powerful. Comprehensive. Intuitive.
Technical Computing High Performance
Computing
Platform LSF
Family
Scalable, comprehensive workload
management suite for demanding, missioncritical heterogeneous environments
Platform HPC
Simplified, integrated, purpose-built HPC
management software bundled with systems
Analytics Infrastructure
Platform
Symphony
Family
Flexible Clusters
Platform Cluster
Manager
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High-throughput, low-latency compute and
data intensive analytics applications
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Highest performance & utilization
Complex Computations (i.e., risk)
Big Data Analytics via MapReduce
Extract Transform Load (ETL)
Provisioning and management of HPC
clusters, including self-service creation and
optimization of heterogeneous HPC clusters
by multiple user groups
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IBM Platform LSF
Powerful, comprehensive highperformance technical computing
workload management for demanding,
distributed environments.
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Common HPC Customer Challenges
Simplify
Management
Faster
Time to
Results
Boost
Productivity
Maximize
Efficiency
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Common HPC Customer Challenges
Plan
Capacity,
Charge for
Use, Monitor
SLAs?
Monitor
Resources &
Workloads,
identify
bottlenecks?
Use
Applications
& Clusters
Anywhere?
Manage
workload
across
distributed
resources?
Dynamically
Expand
Resources
on Demand?
Automate
Workflows &
Data
Movement?
Optimize
Expensive
Software
Licenses?
Schedule
Larger
Numbers of
Jobs, reduce
run-time?
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IBM Platform LSF Product Family
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Application
Center
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Platform
Analytics
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Platform
RTM
IBM Platform
LSF
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Platform
Process
Manager
Standard
Edition
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Platform
Dynamic
Cluster
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License
Scheduler
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• Broad Institute
• CERN
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Sciences
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IBM Platform LSF: The HPC Workload Management Standard
Most Complete
• Advanced, feature-rich workload scheduling
• Robust set of add-on features
• Integrated application support
Most Powerful
• Policy & resource-aware scheduling
• Resource consolidation for max performance
• Advanced self-management
Most Scalable
• Thousands of concurrent users & jobs
• Virtualized pool of shared resources
• Flexible control, multiple policies
Best TCO
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• Optimal utilization, less infrastructure cost
• Better productivity, faster time to result
• Robust capabilities, administrative productivity
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Integrated Product Suite
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Minimize internal integration & development costs
Reduce operational risk & risk of obsolescence
Deploy solutions more quickly & efficiently
Focus on core competencies
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Intelligent Workload Scheduling to Clusters, Grids and Clouds
Regardless where the work is submitted from, the IBM Platform LSF workload
manager schedules and dispatches it to the most eligible compute node
Model Creation
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Job Submission
Workload
Management
Application
Execution
Open/Community
Source Codes
Scripts
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HPC cluster
Client Side
Job
Integrated App
Scheduling
Master
Desktops
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Web Portal
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Remote clusters
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Advanced Features
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Heterogeneous platform support
Supports traditional as well as private & public cloud infrastructures
Comprehensive, intelligent scheduling policies
GPU-aware scheduling
Advanced self-management
Extensible security
Always-on availability
Delegated administration
Resizable jobs
Live cluster re-configuration
Complete API, web-services interfaces
Ease-of use features
much more …
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Intelligent, Policy-driven Scheduling Features
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Fairshare scheduling
Topology & core-aware scheduling
Preemption
Backfill scheduling
Resource reservations
Serial/Parallel controls
Advanced reservation
Job starvation
License scheduling
SLA based scheduling
Absolute priority scheduling
Checkpoint / resume
Job arrays
GPU-aware scheduling
Plug-in schedulers
Advanced scheduling
features are the key to
maximizing efficiency
and productivity while
minimizing cost.
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Multi-Dimensional Scalability
Size
Workload
Massive scale
Multi-cluster
Cloud
2M pending jobs
160k cores
18k nodes*
Usability
Customizable, webbased interface
Easy application
integration
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Functionality
Topology-aware
Policy-driven
* Scalability is dependent on a variety of factors, including type of workload (e.g.
parallel vs. sequential), and product edition
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Product Functionality Scales to Meet Your Evolving Requirements
Advanced Edition
Architecture to support
extreme scalability and
throughput 100k+ cores
& concurrent jobs
Standard Edition
Express Edition
Entry level product for
those with simple
scheduling requirements
and small clusters
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Full featured version
supporting a wide
range of scheduling
policies and job
management functions.
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Global Scalability
• Transparently combine multiple Platform LSF clusters into a single grid without
costly & complex meta-scheduler implementations.
• Flexible, hierarchical, peer-to-peer sharing models
• Local administrators retain control, while sharing assets
Cluster A
Cluster B
Grid
Cluster E
Cluster C
Cluster D
Manage your assets as a single, virtual computer from anywhere in the world
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Tangible Business Value
• Do the same work in less time
• Do the same work with less hardware
• Do more work on the same hardware
Number of
verifications
Number of
analyses
Reduced cost
Productivity
Number of
simulations
With Platform LSF
Better productivity
Faster time to market
Not just in theory, but in practice!
Without LSF
Time to Market
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Balancing the Needs of Users and Administrators
USERS
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Intuitive interfaces
Remote application access
Control over jobs & data
Access to resource when needed
Fast job submission & turnaround
Reporting and statistics
ADMINISTRATORS
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Sophisticated management controls
Better cluster automation
Better diagnosability
Tools to reduce support requests
Tools to improve utilization and service
levels while reducing cost
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Fully Certified and Supported
• Commercially supported by IBM Platform
Computing
– Two decades of HPC experience
– Significant investment in certification &
validation
– Professional Services delivers speedy
installation and application Integration
– Training courses available to help you get full
understanding and value of the HPC software
• Support “from the source”
– 24x7 global support
– eSupport
– Automated subscriptions for bulletins, patches
& updates
– Software upgrade available with paid
professional support & maintenance service
“I really don’t know how we would
have done it without Platform and
the support that we get.”
Dr. Athanasoulis, Harvard Medical
School
“This was a great support
experience for me. One of the best I
have had. Even better considering
the fact we are in different parts of
the world.”
Major Asian Energy Corporation
“Thanks a lot. You saved me. All
my budget for Platform Support over
the past few years has yielded a
return as good as gold.” Prestigious
US School of Public Health
• Hardware and software support from the same
source
– IBM – the Technical Computing market leader
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THANK YOU
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IBM Platform LSF 9 Family
• IBM Platform Application Center
• IBM Platform Process Manager
• IBM Platform License Scheduler
• IBM Platform Session Scheduler
• IBM Platform Dynamic Cluster
• IBM Platform RTM
• IBM Platform Analytics
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IBM Platform Application Center
IBM
Platform
Analytics
IBM
Platform
RTM
IBM
Platform
Application
Center
IBM Platform
LSF
IBM
Platform
Process
Manager
Standard
Edition
IBM
Platform
Dynamic
Cluster
IBM
Platform
Session
Scheduler
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IBM
Platform
License
Scheduler
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IBM Platform Application Center
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Access resources from any browser
Monitor cluster health
Integrated job submission & management
Customization of application forms & pages
Drive jobs, arrays & workflows from application forms
Fine grained access control
Support for 2D/3D remote visualization
Integrated with:
– Platform License Scheduler
– Platform Process Manager
– Platform Analytics
The most powerful and comprehensive web-based portal for HPC
application job submission and management
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Intuitive Application Interfaces
Guided, self-documenting interfaces
boost productivity, reduce training
and lower support costs.
Integrated console boosts
productivity enabling access to
multiple interactive applications
through the browser.
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Monitor and Manage Jobs and Data
Users can monitor and
manage jobs from any device
with a browser.
Upload local data or access
sharable server side
repositories and improve
collaboration.
Proactive notification of
job status changes
makes application users
more efficient.
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Customizable Interface Builder
Intuitive drag-and-drop
interface builder enables
forms to be easily tailored.
Extensible set of built-in
application integrations
selectively sharable by
user or group.
Use native field types or
plug-in your own, with a simple,
flexible scripting interface.
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Role-based Access Controls
Fine-grained access controls
govern what users and groups
can do on the cluster.
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Easily Integrate Custom Applications
Extend the Platform
Application Center with
sophisticated custom
applications.
Reliably trigger workflows behind
the scenes to automate
processes or manage efficient
data movement.
Simulation results are
presented through the portal
with files available in one or
more repositories.
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Integrated Reporting
Access reporting and analysis
functions directly through the
Platform Application Center.
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Extensive library of built-in,
relevant reports related to
resource usage and jobs.
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Summary
Benefits for Administrators
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Simplify application integration
Powerful HPC management
Reduce training and support
Improve resource security
Scalable for large HPC
datacenters
Benefits for Users
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Increase productivity
Enable collaboration
Reduce helpdesk calls
Minimize user-errors
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IBM Platform Process Manager
IBM
Platform
Application
Center
IBM
Platform
Analytics
IBM
Platform
RTM
IBM Platform
LSF
IBM
Platform
Process
Manager
Standard
Edition
IBM
Platform
Dynamic
Cluster
IBM
Platform
License
Scheduler
IBM
Platform
Session
Scheduler
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IBM Platform Process Manager
Sophisticated flow logic, sub-flows, alarms and scriptable interfaces
improve process reliability & dramatically reduce administrator workload.
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A Powerful, Flexible Interface for Designing & Executing
HPC Workflows
• Enables automation of workflows over a distributed infrastructure.
• Integrated environment to design, publish and manage flows.
• Reliable with rich conditional logic and error handling – inspect
variables and roll-back to point of resume.
• Modular management: sub-flows dynamically updated, sub-flow version
control.
• Built for IBM Platform LSF environments.
• Best practices built-in.
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Key Components
Platform Process Manager Flow Editor
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Intuitive drag-and-drop interface
Creates self-documenting flows
Support for sub-flows, job arrays
Rich error-handling / retry capability
Save workflows in XML format
Publish flows directly to Flow Manager
Platform Process Manager Flow Manager
• Manages multiple flows for multiple
users and groups simultaneously
• Monitor workflow execution graphically
• Trigger flows automatically through
calendar events, the flow manager or the
command line.
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Key Benefits
 Fully visual environment, no programming required
 Enables capture of repeatable best-practices
 Quickly design and deploy complex workflows
 Run HPC processes faster & more reliably
 Scale seamlessly
 Dramatically reduce administration
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IBM Platform License Scheduler
IBM
Platform
Application
Center
IBM
Platform
Analytics
IBM
Platform
RTM
IBM Platform
LSF
IBM
Platform
Process
Manager
Standard
Edition
IBM
Platform
License
Scheduler
IBM
Platform
Dynamic
Cluster
IBM
Platform
Session
Scheduler
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IBM Platform License Scheduler
• Share application licenses according to policy
– Ensure licenses are allocated to critical projects
– Establish cross-functional license sharing policies
– Enforce license ownership with optional pre-emption
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Workloads “pend” while awaiting license resources
Support for “WAN-able” licenses
Tightly integrated with FlexNet Manager
Integrated with Platform RTM and Platform Analytics for sophisticated
analysis
– Correlate license use with users, projects and design centers
Intelligent, policy-driven license sharing for
IBM Platform LSF environments
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Policy-driven License Optimization
Allocate licenses between clusters or based on local sharing policies.
License allocations flex based on supply & demand.
Flex Server C
“WAN-able”
HSIM
VCS
NCSIM
Specman
Calibre
ModelSim
Flex Server A
HSIM
VCS
Specman
ModelSim
Cluster A
Project Alpha
Project Beta
Cluster A: target - 70% of VCS
Cluster B: target - 30% of VCS
Allocation seeks to meet this target policy. Allocation can
flex when a cluster is not using its allocation
Flex Server B
Calibre
VCS
NCSIM
ModelSim
Cluster B
Project Beta
Project Charlie
Intelligent, policy-driven license sharing for Platform LSF environments
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Multiple Scheduling Models
Cluster 1
Across
clusters
Project mode
License token allocation
Based on project demand each
scheduling cycle
Project 1
Project 2
Cluster 2
Project 1
Project 2
Cluster 1
Within
clusters
Project 1
Cluster mode
License token allocation
Static or dynamic, independent of
scheduling cycle
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Cluster 2
Project 2
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Robust, Easy-to-use Monitoring
Monitor license use by
feature, job, project or
cluster.
Monitor license availability
across multiple FlexLM
servers and service domains..
Graphically monitor jobs that
check out multiple license
features, visually identify
bottlenecks..
Monitor license usage in
real-time (including nonLSF usage)
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Key Benefits
 Significantly improved license utilization
 Designed for extensibility
 Improve service levels
 Increase user productivity
 Improve visibility to license usage
 Get maximum return from software license investments
Intelligent, policy-driven license sharing for
IBM Platform LSF environments
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IBM Platform Session Scheduler
IBM
Platform
Application
Center
IBM
Platform
Analytics
IBM
Platform
RTM
IBM Platform
LSF
IBM
Platform
Process
Manager
Standard
Edition
IBM
Platform
Dynamic
Cluster
IBM
Platform
License
Scheduler
IBM Platform
Session
Scheduler
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Scheduling Large Job Volumes
Submit large volumes of jobs as a single job
• Higher throughput / lower latency
• Superior management of related tasks
• Supports > 50,000 tasks / per user
• Two-tier scheduling – preserves existing job semantics
• Particularly beneficial for large volume of short duration jobs
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• Syntax similar to job arrays
• Run extremely large numbers
of tasks without impacting the
scheduler
• Support up to 1,000
simultaneous session
schedulers
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IBM Platform Dynamic Cluster
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Platform
Application
Center
IBM
Platform
Analytics
IBM
Platform
RTM
IBM Platform
LSF
IBM
Platform
Process
Manager
Standard
Edition
IBM
Platform
License
Scheduler
IBM Platform
Dynamic
Cluster
IBM
Platform
Session
Scheduler
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IBM Platform Dynamic Cluster
Manages & allocates infrastructure dynamically
• Workload driven dynamic node re-provisioning
• Dynamically switch nodes between physical & virtual machines
• Automated VM live migration and checkpoint / restart
• Flexible policy controls
• Smart performance controls
• Automated pending job requirement based provisioning of VM
templates
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IBM Platform Dynamic Cluster
Static LSF Environment
Dynamic Cluster Enabled LSF 9.x
Physical Machines
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Virtual Machines
Resources are static in number and type
Jobs are locked onto hardware once running
VM definitions are static and immobile
Overall utilization & throughput is not optimized
Physical Machines
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Virtual Machines
Physical Provisioning
LSF
Resources are dynamically allocated for demand
Jobs can float between hardware resources
VMs start, stop, move, expand, shrink automatically
Overall utilization & throughput is optimized
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Platform Dynamic Cluster Complements Platform Cluster Manager
IBM Platform Dynamic Cluster
IBM Platform Cluster Manager
– Advanced Edition
Function
Automatically changes the composition of a
cluster based on workload requirements
Self-service assembly of multiple HPC clusters on a
shared compute infrastructure for use by multiple
tenants
Value
Transforms static, low utilization clusters into
highly dynamic, reliable, and high performing
HPC cloud resources
Consolidates disparate HPC resources, resulting in
increased hardware utilization and the ability to meet
SLAs while lowering costs
Workload Manager
Support
IBM Platform LSF
IBM Platform LSF; IBM Platform Symphony
Grid Engine; and many others
Cloud bursting
Automate running of LSF jobs in a public cloud
based on workload and LSF policies
(requires PCM-AE)
Application User and Administrator self service,
policy and calendar driven
Provisioning
Workload driven - template based VM
provisioning or network based PM
provisioning.
Application User and Administrator self service,
policy and calendar driven on PMs, VMs and
Hypervisors
Running jobs on VMs
Leverages VMs for key features: job mobility,
defragmentation, containment, high availability
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Cluster/cloud flexing
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Self-service / administrator-driven
Profile
Use Cases
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IBM Platform Dynamic Cluster + Platform Cluster Manager
= Dynamic, Flexible Cloud Environment
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IBM Platform Dynamic Cluster
Transform static, low utilization clusters into
highly dynamic, shared HPC Cloud resources
• Optimize resource utilization
Job
Reliability
• Maximize throughput, reduce time to results
• Eliminate costly, inflexible silos
• Increase reliability of critical workload
• Maintain maximum performance
Increased
Utilization
Increased
Throughput &
Service
• Improve user and administrator productivity
• Increase automation, decrease manual effort
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IBM Platform RTM
IBM
Platform
Application
Center
IBM
Platform
Analytics
IBM
Platform
RTM
IBM Platform
LSF
IBM
Platform
Process
Manager
Standard
Edition
IBM
Platform
Dynamic
Cluster
IBM
Platform
License
Scheduler
IBM
Platform
Session
Scheduler
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IBM Platform RTM : Comprehensive Workload
Monitoring & Reporting
IBM Platform RTM enables LSF administrators to manage
multiple clusters easily while providing a better quality of service
to cluster users
• Operational dashboard for Platform LSF administrators
• Provides monitoring, reporting and management
• Integrated alerts and exception handling
• License monitoring and usage reports
• Hundreds of standard reporting graphs included
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Intuitive Operational Dashboard
Visually monitor
multiple clusters.
Instant access to realtime information on jobs,
stats and remote console.
Dynamic host colorcoding based on
configurable thresholds.
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Monitor and Report on Resource Consumption
Hundreds of pre-packaged
graphs selectable for
different time granularities
over multiple time-scales.
Configurable views show
extensive information about jobs,
hosts, host groups, clusters,
resources, licenses, etc.
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Resolve Issues Quickly, Avoid Unnecessary Service Interruptions
Search for and drill-down on any
running, pending or completed job to
identify issues or remove bottlenecks.
Convenient pending reason charts make
it easy to improve service levels by
explaining clearly why jobs are pending.
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Automated Alerts and Exception Handling
Configurable alarms and alerts
and consolidated syslog views
for ease of managing large
environments.
Trigger alerts based on boolean
expressions to warn of conditions not
apparent simple monitoring tools.
Flexible options to clear alerts
avoiding repeated notifications
about known issues.
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e.g. Alert me when a NASTRAN job in
the priority queue has pended for more
than 60 minutes but average cluster
utilization is below 80%.
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Key Benefits
 Simplify administration and monitoring
 Improve service levels
 Resolve issues quickly
 Avoid unnecessary service interruptions
 Improve cluster efficiency
 Realize better productivity
The most comprehensive workload monitoring and reporting
dashboard for IBM Platform LSF environments
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IBM Platform Analytics
IBM
Platform
Application
Center
IBM Platform
Analytics
IBM
Platform
RTM
IBM Platform
LSF
IBM
Platform
Process
Manager
Standard
Edition
IBM
Platform
Dynamic
Cluster
IBM
Platform
License
Scheduler
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Platform
Session
Scheduler
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IBM Platform Analytics: Advanced Analytics for HPC Data
Intended for analysts, business and I.T. managers
• Answers “business level questions” by correlating and analyzing
measures related to, users, groups, projects, systems and software.
• Out-of-box industry-relevant / best practice dashboards
• Instant access to years of data, massive data volumes
• Support for a parallel / shared nothing database for scalable
performance
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Analytics for Jobs, Resources, Software licenses and More
• Pre-built “dashboards”, each providing views of data.
– Cluster Capacity
– Hardware Usage
– Workload Accounting
– Workload Statistics
– License Usage
– Software
• Easily extensible
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Powerful, Intuitive Customizable Interface
Visibility to resources
within the data center
or across the globe.
Instantly filter data by timeperiod, cluster, project.
queue or user.
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With full visibility to cluster capacity,
organizations can find idle capacity
and share resources more effectively.
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Trend-analysis, Operational Reporting
Analyze measures over
different time periods to find
trends or pinpoint problems.
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Analyze Data by Project, User, Application, Geography or Queue
Report on usage of
resources by project, user or
geography enabling projectbased accounting.
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Full Visibility to Global Cluster Capacity
“Drill-down” on tabular data
Identify users or groups that
may be wasting resources.
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Full Visibility to Global Cluster Capacity
Easily visualize how
resources are being shared
by user and by group.
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Key Benefits
 Turn data into decision making
 Quickly identify and remove bottlenecks
 Optimize asset utilization
 More accurate capacity planning
 Better productivity and efficiency
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