Global Compute Farm: Enhancing Resource Sharing Across Clusters
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Platform Computing Europe CHEP 2000 LSF: Joining Forces in a Global Compute Farm Platform Computing Ltd. Units 18/19, Building 2 Intec Business Park, Wade Road Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 8NE United Kingdom T: +44 (0) 1256 370 500 F: +44 (0) 1256 370 501 email: info-europe@platform.com Michaela Kurz Major Account Manager Platform Computing GmbH Terminalstr. Mitte 18 85356 München, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 89/970 07-161 Fax:+49 (0) 89/970 07-200
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 Batch LSF Analyzer LSF MultiCluster LSF JobScheduler LSF Parallel LSF Make LSF Suite of Products LSF Base
Load Information Interactive Jobs Batch Jobs LSF MultiCluster: Architecture Red Cluster Master Yellow Cluster Master
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 LSF MultiCluster
Graphic User Interface LSF multi-cluster as integrator AIX SGI … ENEA: Software Conceptual Structure User programs & commercial code Load Leveler Telnet LSF AFS Geographical cross platform& File System SUN NT Linux Quadrics Compaq
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