Newsletter - August 2006
Optimizing your Compute Resources
NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
2. Cluster Resources Attending GridWorld in Washington D.C., Sept 12-13
3. New Version of Moab Access Portal, 4.5.0, to be Released in September
4. DID YOU KNOW: Become a Hosting Center With Moab - Rent Out Resources
Cluster Resources Wins Largest Cluster and Grid Management Contract in History
— Provides Moab Site License to the World's Leading Supercomputing
Organization (U.S. Department of Energy)
Cluster Resources, Inc. announced earlier this month that the Department of Energy’s
National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Advanced Simulation and Computing
Program selected Cluster Resources’ Moab workload and resource management
software as a standard for use across NNSA’s high-performance computing systems.
The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC) unites the high performance
computing expertise and capabilities of the national labs responsible for ensuring the
safety, security and reliability of the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons without testing.
ASC, also known as Tri-Labs consists of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL),
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories. ASC currently
has the number 1, 3, 6 and 9 largest systems in the TOP500 Supercomputing list, as well
as dozens of other systems equating to approximately 25% of the TOP500’s total CPU
count (www.top500.org).
“Cluster Resources is honored to be selected by ASC,” said David Jackson, CEO of
Cluster Resources, Inc. “There is no organization in the world which matches the technical
expertise and scope of compute systems found at ASC in terms of scalability and
architectural complexity.”
This agreement brings two industry leaders together. ASC is widely acknowledged for their
leadership in successfully deploying next-generation massive architectures, networks and
storage solutions, as well as their research and expertise in scalable middleware. Cluster
Resources provides industry leadership in intelligent workload and resource management
that orchestrates compute, network, and storage resources, in order to maximize utilization,
availability and responsiveness. The ASC/Cluster Resources partnership will push innovation
boundaries for the Supercomputing / High Performance Computing (HPC) industry on both
current and future leadership-class systems.
“Partnerships such as this one are a key element of the ASC Program’s success in pushing
the frontiers of high performance scientific computing,” said Brian Carnes, Service and
Development Division leader at LLNL. “Only by working with leading innovators in HPC can
we develop and maintain the large scale systems and increasingly complex simulation
environments vital to our national security missions.”
To read the press release in its entirety, visit http://www.clusterresources.com/asc.
Cluster Resources Attending GridWorld in Washington D.C.
Come and discuss the future of grids with Cluster Resources.
Cluster Resources will have a booth at the GridWorld Exhibit Showcase in
Washington D.C. on September 12 and 13. If you are attending this event,
we invite you to come by our booth and interact with Cluster Resources staff,
see how you can quickly and easily migrate to a grid environment with Moab,
view grid technology demos, and learn about evaluating Moab Grid Suite.
The booth is located in Room 151, Booth 20. For those who have not registered
and are still thinking about attending, contact us and as a friend of Cluster
Resources, we can provide you with a 20% discount on the registration cost.
Learn more about grids at http://www.clusterresources.com/mgs.
Evaluate Moab Grid Suite at http://www.clusterresources.com/grideval.
New Version of Moab Access Portal, 4.5.0, to be Released in
September
A new version of Moab Access Portal, 4.5.0, will soon be officially released and
available for download, providing users with a number of value added
enhancements over previous versions.
The new version of Moab8 Access Portal will offer a variety of significant
implementations and improvements. Simplifying the installation process, the
Linux distribution of Moab Access Portal comes embedded with Java and the
servlet engine Tomcat. The new version has improved submission screens, which
are more intuitive, making it easier for users to create scripts on-the-fly. 4.5.0 also
offers the improved reading of large messages for jobs and nodes, using tool-tips.
Additionally, Cluster Resources eradicated possible security vulnerabilities,
improved the memory footprint, and fixed other small bugs.
Moab Access Portal provides universally accessible job submission to Moab
Workload Manager and empowers end users with Web-based job submission, an
intuitive graphical interface and the other tools they need to track and manage their
own workload.
Cluster Resources encourages all Moab users to take advantage of the new
Access Portal features, patches and upgrades. Download information can be
found by checking http://www.clusterresources.com/map.
DID YOU KNOW: Become a Hosting Center With Moab - Rent Out
Resources
Moab Hosting Suite allows high performance computing sites to generate extra
income by renting out resources. Hardware vendors, software vendors, entrepreneurs
or any institution with an HPC hardware infrastructure can use Moab Hosting Suite to
leverage their resources to increase their bottom line. Once Hosting Suite is
configured, it can automatically bill and allocate resources per customer request.
Previous hosting center models required manual set up for each customer
environment. That process could take from a week to a month or more, per customer
request. However, after Moab is set up it can automatically create environments per
customer request. By taking a few weeks at the beginning to set up a hosting center
with Moab, you won't have to take a few weeks to set up a hosting environment for
each individual customer.
Hosting center applications stretch as far as ingenuity. Software vendors can rent
out licenses by the hour. Hardware vendors can turn excess inventory into revenue.
Universities, businesses or any other institution with HPC infrastructure can
subsidize the cost of their system. Moab facilitates these and many other
possibilities by automating several administrative functions.
To learn more about the benefits of becoming a hosting center, visit
http://www.clusterresources.com/utilitycomputing
To read a case study on how Moab Hosting Suite is currently being used, go to
http://www.clusterresources.com/alexa
Contact Us:
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* TORQUE Resource Manager software developed by NASA Ames Research
Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Veridian Information
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and information. TORQUE is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with Altair Grid
Solutions, Inc.