Cluster Resources Newsletter – February/March 2006
Optimizing your Compute Resources
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*NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS *
1. Cluster Resources Announces Integration of Moab with Panasas
ActiveScale Storage Cluster
2. Technical Training Slots Still Available
3. New Moab Evaluations
4. Moab Admin Manual PDF
5. DID YOU KNOW: Hard Policy Based Reservations
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*Cluster Resources Announces Integration of Moab with Panasas
ActiveScale Storage Cluster*
Cluster Resources, Inc. recently unveiled a new partnership with
Panasas, Inc., delivering a holistic next-generation, compute and
storage solution through the integration of Cluster Resources’ Moab
Workload Manager^TM with the Panasas ActiveScale^® Storage Cluster. This
combined solution is believed by many to be the next logical step in the
evolution of the cluster, allowing more unified system optimization,
more adaptable resources and more powerful policy-based service delivery.
The integration of these technologies provides Moab with the information
it needs to more efficiently drive user workloads in a storage-aware
manner, avoiding failures and data bottlenecks while intelligently
directing the ActiveScale Storage Cluster to adapt to storage
requirements of the upcoming workload schedule. This partnership is
creating a complete clustered environment that optimizes compute and
storage resources for maximized return on investment.
“The collaborative work of Cluster Resources and Panasas enables HPC
customers to more fully maximize the value of their infrastructure by
tightly mapping Panasas Storage Clusters to the workload that accesses
them under a single policy engine,” said Len Rosenthal, chief marketing
officer of Panasas. “Customers will have the ability to schedule and run
workloads in order to achieve maximum I/O performance in an intelligent
and highly adaptive manner in line with high-level mission objectives.”
Cluster Resources and Panasas are currently delivering on the early
phases of the integration effort allowing Moab to automatically learn
and even predict the I/O requirements and characteristics of cluster
workload. Further, Panasas is generating and exporting storage
contention information that is now being used by Moab to prevent
over-commitment of storage resources, minimizing data thrashing through
intelligent workload selection.
Read the full press release at:
http://www.clusterresources.com/media/Press%20Releases/Panasas-Cluster_Resources.pdf
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*Technical Training Slots Still Available*
The time is getting closer to Cluster Resource’s free technical training
on March 23 and 26. Slots are still available for both days. The
training will consist of six one-hour classes repeated two days.
Customers and partners will be given first priority and other slots will
be filled as space allows. At the same time, we are hosting on site
training for anyone that can travel to our Provo, UT headquarters
location. This will allow you to meet face-to-face with the Moab
developers.
The six topics to be covered are:
- Grids
- QoS enforcement
- Stats analysis
- Troubleshooting
- Prioritization and Fairshare
- Moab in the data center
Complete details about connecting into the conference, call in numbers,
training order, etc. will be provided next week to those that sign up or
inquire about the training.
If you would like to receive an invitation to the training, please
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Training recordings will be posted on line after the live training
session. To view last year’s training session, go to
www.clusterresources.com/techtraining
<http://www.clusterresources.com/techtraining>.
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*New Moab Evaluations*
Moab 5.0 evaluation builds are available on the Cluster Resources eval
web site. When Moab 5.1 is released soon, an updated evaluation build
will be available as well.
Moab evaluations are fully functional and also allow you to try out the
graphical tools, Moab Cluster Manager and Moab Access Portal.
Evaluations last for 45 days before you will need to contact Cluster
Resources to obtain a license.
The new releases of Moab are significant because they mark definitive
upgrades to their grid and utility computing abilities. Moab 5.0 has
added functionality in the areas of data staging, virtualization, new
diagnostics, and scalability. Moab 5.1 will improve upon that even more
with added integration with SLURM. More information will be available
soon regarding the Moab 5.1 release. See the CHANGES file contained in
the Moab binary for a detailed explanation of new features,
enhancements, and fixes.
These new evaluation builds give you the opportunity to try many of the
new features included in Moab 5.x.
To download the evaluation for clusters go to:
http://www.clusterresources.com/eval
To download the evaluation for grids go to:
http://www.clusterresources.com/grideval
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*Moab** Admin Manual PDF*
The Moab admin manual PDF has been updated with changes for Moab 5.0.
This PDF will be update again soon with the release of Maob 5.1.
You can view the PDF at: http://www.clusterresources.com/documentation
(The link is next to the Admin Manual for Moab Workload Manager)
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*DID YOU KNOW: **Hard Policy Based Reservations*
Reservations contain multiple ACL modifiers to help change the default
behavior of ACL processing.
The recently added ACL modifier, HPEnable, allows you to determine which
credentials receive preferential access to a reservation. By adding a ~
to a credential list, such as USERLIST, the credential will be ignored
during /soft policy/ scheduling and will only be considered for
/hard-policy/ scheduling once all eligible soft policy jobs have been
started.
SRCFG[reservation1] USERLIST=john,~bill
In this example, all john's jobs will allowed to run in the reservation
at any time. Bill’s jobs will also be allowed to run in this
reservation, but only considered after all of john's jobs are given an
opportunity to start. John's jobs will be considered before bill’s jobs
regardless of job priority.
For more information on HPEnable see see 7.1.5.2.5 ACL Modifiers in the
Moab documentation.
http://www.clusterresources.com/products/mwm/docs/7.1.5managingreservations.shtml#aclmodifiers
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