Compute Farm Management
Most companies take advantage of shared compute power, and Engineering organizations are key users of this resource. Typically, Engineering runs applications that are CPU and memory intensive, best served by creating compute farms incorporating queue policies. These days there are alternatives for compute farms, from traditional farms of physical servers, to virtualized solutions, hosted solutions, or Cloud computing solutions. Deciding among these requires a knowledge of the Engineering application requirements, hardware, operating system parameters, and other variables. CPU intensive batch jobs such as simulations and analysis runs must be properly scheduled to maximize utilization.
SPK can help you with system management and server monitoring. We can architect your compute farm and monitor and manage the resources as well.
SPK and Associates can design and implement an efficient compute farm use model to maximize your investment. Services include:
- Solution Architecture
- Fairshare/Queue Policy Creation & Administration (LSF, SunGrid)
- Security Access and Workspace Management
- Virtualization and Provisioning
- Storage Management
- Load Balancing
- Software Licensing
- Application Management – APIs, frameworks, toolkits, Software Development Kit (SDKs).
- Web Services
Contact SPK today for assistance with your Compute Farm solution.
