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Moab Grid Suite

Moab Grid Suite is a professional grid workload management solution from Cluster Resources, Inc. that integrates scheduling, management, monitoring and reporting of workloads across independent clusters.

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

Moab Workload Manager for Grids - policy-based workload management and scheduling engine
Moab Grid Manager - grid and cluster level administration interface, monitoring and reporting tool
Moab Access Portal for Grids - Web-based end user job submission and management portal

Currently, only Moab Workload Manager for Grids is available for evaluation from the Web site, however, Moab Access Portal for Grids is available upon request. Sites may also use corresponding products from Moab Cluster Suite to see the product functionality, but without grid features.

If you need support while installing or evaluating Moab Grid Suite, please contact Cluster Resources for free eval support.

Benefits/Features

Key capabiliteis include:

Process workloads faster in order to maximize ROI
Grid Control with Automated Tasks, Policies and Reporting
Controls for Cluster Sovereignty and Trusted Sharing
Increases User Productivity
Unifies Management across diverse independent clusters

Business Benefits

Move from cluster to optimized grid quickly with unified management across heterogeneous clusters using a single tool that manages both clusters and grid workload - no new tools to learn
Automated job and data migration with intelligent scheduling that matches jobs to run on optimal resources in the fastest time possible
Maintain local cluster autonomy and support grid-wide service level agreements with a flexible policy and event engine that adjusts workload processing at both grid and cluster levels
Use a grid-wide interface and reporting tools to view grid resources, status and usage in real-time charts, as well as trends over time for capacity planning, diagnostic and accounting purposes
Enable resource and organizational virtualization with capabilities that allow different groups to access and view grid resources regardless of physical or organizational boundaries

Integration

Moab can be applied to a broad set of environments and is able to unify management across multiple clusters of heterogeneous hardware, operating systems, and resource managers.

Operating system support for:

Linux (all flavors)
Unix (AIX, IRIX, HP -UX, FreeBSD, OSF/Tru-64, Solaris and other UNIX platforms)
Mac OS X
Windows.

Resource Manager support includes:

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

Migration

Moab makes moving to a grid easy, by adding grid-optimized job submission and management in a matter of minutes. Moab optimizes data staging and seamlessly integrates with existing security mechanisms or with grid security tool kits such as Globus. It decreases grid adoption barriers by giving sites the extensive control over ownership-based access, priority and service levels to make the grid politically acceptable, the fine-tuned control over their workload and resources to make the grid usable, and is priced in such a way that makes grids affordable. Moab can be applied to a broad set of environments and is able to unify management across multiple clusters of heterogeneous hardware, operating systems, and resource managers.

Status

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

Related Concepts

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