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Moab Utility/Hosting Suite
Moab Utility/Hosting Suite
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Moab Utility/Hosting Suite is a utility/hosting solution from Cluster Resources, Inc. that enables true utility computing and empowers resource providers to service those needing access to personalized resources. This suite gives any HPC organization the ability to host out or immediately access specific resources or entire compute environments, which Moab dynamically provisions and schedules (including operating systems, security, credentials, applications, network, storage, etc.). Moab provides a full utility solution that requires no change in end user job submission, by allowing hosted resources to be tightly integrated, appearing as a direct extension of local resources. It comes with billing and charging capabilities, to track resource consumption based upon any criteria, such as CPU time, storage, bandwidth, etc. Moab lets organizations guarantee service level agreements to users.
Benefits/Features
Key capabilities
- Share local resources with internal departments and organizations
- Host out and bill for access to resources and applications
- Gain additional revenues by hosting out & billing access to applications, services or resources
- Guarantee improved service levels and reliability
- Provide leading resource control to administrators and ease-of-use to end users
- Control information sharing and privacy
- Dynamically provision and allocate resources based on backlog, QoS/SLA guarantees, resource failures, or other desired factors
- Host and bill on your full environment usage including CPU, network, storage, applications, etc.
- Allow for jobs to automatically run on hosted resources when the local resources can not provide adequate resource levels by instantaneously connecting into a hosting center
- Pay for unique resources only when used, avoiding the purchase of expensive, underused resources
- Let end users access additional hosted resources, with no added training, and allow local administrators to control the hosted resources as though they were part of the local cluster
- Provide secure access with dynamic network (VLAN) and host security.
Uses for Moab's Utility/Hosting Suite:
- Host for Internal Use– Host excess/unused resources or applications internally to other departments, organizations or groups for cost sharing purposes
- Host for External Use– Externally host company resources (data mining, custom applications, specialized hardware, bulk compute resources, on-demand testing facilities, etc.) to increase revenues
- Consume Hosted Resources– Extend local resources by instantly and transparently receiving tightly integrated, tailor-provisioned hosted resources, to overcome workload spikes or resource failures
Industry Example Sites Using Utility/Hosting
Hardware Providers
- Let potential customers test their code and partners test their products on your hardware. These customers and partners can use ’s graphical interface to select their preferred environment (hardware, OS, applications, etc.) and will automatically provision the resources and give them secure access to the resources, increasing hardware sales and saving the time and costs associated with preparing test clusters.
- Allow customers with tight time frames access to your hardware the day the contract is signed and finalized.
- Host your high-end software to earn additional revenue from clients normally not able to purchase software licenses.
- Let customers easily access and test beta and production software to increase software sales.
- Create a seamless connection between yourself and your customers, allowing your hosted resources to immediately appear as an extension of your customer’s local cluster when they are needed.
- Automatically provision and prepare requested environments for your clients.
- Send out automated billing reports that charge based upon any resource consumption criteria such as CPU hours, license usage, bandwidth, storage, etc.
- Increase customer adoption by requiring no change in your customer’s job submission methods. Customers continue submitting standard scripts to their local cluster and will automatically migrate jobs and data, translate needed scripts and provision the environment, requiring no change in end user experience.
- Share expensive hardware and administrative costs by hosting your cluster to other departments or entities and send out automated billing based upon usage.
- Save money by renting expensive applications for short term projects.
- Ensure that resources are immediately available during workload surges without having to purchase resources that sit idle for long periods of time.
- Decrease staff distractions by letting them access hosted resources without changing job submission habits.
- Keep all SLA and QoS guarantees by immediately accessing hosted resources when local resources fall short.
- Save money by renting resource, applications, or capacity and paying for only what you use instead of purchasing resources that sit idle.
Status
Moab Utiltiy/Hosting Suite is maintained and supported by Cluster Resources, Inc.
Related Concepts
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