Platform Computing Europe Platform Computing Ltd Units 1819
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Platform Computing Europe Platform Computing Ltd. Units 18/19, Building 2 Intec Business Park, Wade Road Basingstoke, Hampshire RG 24 8 NE United Kingdom T: +44 (0) 1256 370 500 F: +44 (0) 1256 370 501 email: info-europe@platform. com Platform Computing Gmb. H Terminalstr. Mitte 18 85356 München, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 89/970 07 -161 Fax: +49 (0) 89/970 07 -200 CHEP 2000 LSF: Joining Forces in a Global Compute Farm Michaela Kurz Major Account Manager
Who is Platform Computing? • A global company Direct Sales Offices in North America, UK, Germany, France • An industry leader Technology, Partnerships, Organisation
LSF and GLOBUS • Metacomputing Infrastructure • Global scheduling local scheduling • GLOBUS+LSF at NASA • Discussions with other sites
LSF Suite of Products LSF Batch LSF Analyzer LSF Multi. Cluster LSF Base LSF Job. Scheduler LSF Parallel LSF Make
LSF Multi. Cluster: Architecture Red Cluster Master Yellow Cluster Master Load Information Interactive Jobs Batch Jobs
LSF Multi. Cluster Provides resource sharing: Separately managed sites Multiple departments/divisions in a large corporation Computing centre supporting many sites Multiple cooperating organisations Loosely connected sites Over long distance or slow links Across WAN with time differences While maintaining: Autonomy Each cluster has its own LSF administrators Each cluster sets its own policies Administrators of different clusters negotiate in setting up inter-cluster resource sharing policies Reliability The availability of one cluster does not affect another Communication failures between clusters does not cause job loss
ENEA: Software Conceptual Structure User programs & commercial code Graphic User Interface LSF multi-cluster as integrator Load Leveler LSF Telnet AFS Geographical cross platform& File System AIX SGI SUN Compaq NT Linux Quadrics …
LSF customers ENEA CERN Fermilab SLAC LANL LLNL LBNL
Need for Enhanced Cooperation § Resource sharing between sites § User authentification § Secure job submit § Accounting . . . what else?
The Global Compute Farm • European initiative planned • support for enhanced cooperation • please contact us here at CHEP if you‘re interested
