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Moab Cluster Suite

Moab Cluster Suite is a professional cluster management solution from Cluster Resources, Inc. that integrates scheduling, managing, monitoring and reporting of cluster workloads. Moab Cluster Suite simplifies and unifies management across one or multiple hardware, operating system, storage, network, license and resource manager environments to increase the ROI of cluster investments.

Moab includes task-oriented graphical management and flexible policy capabilities, providing an intelligent management layer that guarantees service levels, speeds job processing and accommodates additional resources.

The Moab Cluster Suite incorporates the following applications from Cluster Resources:

Moab Workload Manager - Moab Workload Manager is a policy-based job scheduler and event engine that enables utility-based computing for clusters. It simplifies management across one or multiple hardware, operating system, storage, network, license and resource manager environments to increase the ROI of clustered resources, improve system utilization to run between 90-99 percent, and allow for expansion.

Moab Cluster Manager - Moab Cluster Manager is a task-based graphical cluster management interface, monitor and reporting tool for Moab Workload Manager. Moab Cluster Manager reduces administration costs by enabling common and complex management tasks such as cluster status, diagnostics, changes staging, report generation and job submission to be done faster and easier.

Moab Access Portal - Moab Access Portal is a Web-based end-user job submission and management tool that works with Moab Workload Manager. It provides universally accessible job submission to Moab Workload Manager and associated resource managers from any location without the need to install software on the client computer.

Evaluation

There are several easy ways to evaluate Moab Cluster Suite. If you need support while installing or evaluating Moab Cluster Suite, please contact Cluster Resources for free eval support.

Benefits/Features

Key capabilities include:

Improves system utilization to 90-99 percent guaranteed
Automates system tasks policies and reporting
Controls Multi-Group Sharing
Increases User Productivity
Unifies Management across clusters
Speeds Job Processing
Easily Accomodates Additional Resources

Business Benefits

Simplify use, access and control for both users and administrators
Integrate/Unify management across diverse resources and environments in your cluster (e.g. multiple resource managers, operating systems, software licenses, networks, hardware types, etc.)
Share/Control usage of resources between users, groups and projects using a flexible policy engine to deliver guaranteed service levels backed by detailed accounting and reporting
Track, diagnose and report on cluster workload and status information providing aggregate summaries and specific granular details for diagnostic, capacity planning and tuning purposes.
Automate tasks and processes to streamline job turn around and reduce administrative burdens
Prepare for the future using a scalable architecture that is grid ready, compatible and extensible

Integration

Operating systems:

Linux (all flavors)
Unix (AIX, IRIX, HP -UX, FreeBSD, OSF/Tru-64, Solaris and other UNIX platforms)
Mac OS X
Windows (Requires a resource manager that supports Windows)

Resource Managers:

TORQUE *
LSF
LoadLeveler
Open PBS
PBSPro
BProc
Native-Batch
Condor (under development)
SGE (under development)

Status

Moab Cluster Suite is maintained and supported by Cluster Resources, Inc.

Related Concepts

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