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Moab Cluster Manager®

Moab Cluster Manager is a task-based cluster management interface, monitor and reporting tool for Moab Workload Manager®. Moab Cluster Manager reduces administration costs by enabling common and complex management tasks such as cluster status, diagnostics, changes staging, report generation and job submission to be done faster and easier.

Moab Cluster Manager provides the only graphics and charting capabilities in the industry that work across one or multiple hardware, operating system, storage, network, license and resource manager environments. This capability enables administrators to view and modify and report on all of the vast amounts of diverse cluster information in a few mouse clicks as opposed to hours or days.

Moab Cluster Manager’s Graphical interface provides convenience to administrators and end users. Using Moab Cluster Manager, users can:

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  • Quickly view, modify and report on jobs, nodes, statistics and policies
  • Easily analyze cluster status with a visual overview of cluster workload conditions,
    reservations and other information
  • Create and dynamically modify advanced reservations to ensure cluster availability
    at the right time and on the right resources


Features (Moab Cluster Manager) Benefits (Moab Cluster Manager)
Benefit End User Virtual Partitioning End users submit and manage their own jobs within their own virtual clusters of the resources to which they have access
Event Trigger Support Automate maintenance tasks, adjust policies or send notifications as triggered by time, service thresholds and other events
Job Evaluation Quickly find and manage troubled jobs, those belonging to a particular user or group, or jobs which meet specific criteria
Workload Prioritization Preempt active jobs to accommodate higher priority workload
QoS/Service Level Agreement Enforcement Specify workload value based on select job attributes and tune priority factors to favor certain projects, improve responsiveness, maximize utilization and more
Configure and Manage Virtual Cluster Service Architecture Guarantee resource availability and turnaround time for users; specify service levels with specific billing rates, resource access, and performance thresholds
Grid and Multi-Cluster Management Graphically enable, configure and monitor resource, license, network and other managers to conveniently track performance, load and failures
Monitor, Diagnose and Report on Resource Allocation Integrate resources from multiple systems into a single virtual cluster coordinating workload and policies across all systems
Security & Authentication Visualize live and historical utilization, resource allocation, and backlog; create professional reports on provided service levels and resource usage for organizational units
Configuration and Operational Management Define management roles and dynamically add capabilities to users

System Compatibility

  • Resource Managers: TORQUE Resource Manager, OpenPBS, PBSPro,Sun Gridengine (SGE), SGE Enterprise Edition (SGEE), LoadLeveler, LSF,BProc/Scyld, Scalable System Software (SSS-RM), or Quadrics RMS
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, AIX, OSF/Tru-64, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, FreeBSD & other UNIX platforms
  • Size: Tested to work up to 5000 nodes, 5000 jobs, & 1000 users