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LSF Family of Products

LSF Family of Products

The LSF family of products is the industry's most powerful and comprehensive family of grid-enabled solutions. This product family helps manage and optimize expensive and complex IT environments delivering higher IT efficiency, faster time to business results, dramatically reduced cost of computing and guaranteed service execution.

 

 Overview of benefits with LSF family of products

Industry Challenge	LSF Solution
Dramatically accelerate time to market and results	High performance architecture improves workload throughput by 6x, versus running jobs without a workload management system in place Clustering distributed IT resources into a single virtual supercomputer delivers processing power as needed and when needed
Reduce operational & infrastructure costs	Maximum utilization rates and system scalability delivers more power with fewer resources Leverage commodity-based hardware and open industry standards such as OGSI Optimize utilization of application licenses Detailed analytics and reporting to support fact-based project planning decisions
Minimize business risk by increasing system reliability	Fault-tolerant, and fail-over capabilities ensure always-on computing Compliant with OGSI, an open industry standard
Improve quality of results	Failed jobs are automatically re-run Guaranteed service levels and execution

 

 

Core Products

LSF and LSF HPC help optimize existing resources through the Virtual Execution Machine architecture. These products cluster existing resources, including desktops, servers and mainframes into a single, ‘virtual pool’ where they can be fully utilized to provide maximum computing power. Intelligent scheduling and workload management features significantly reduce time-to-results for batch processing jobs by distributing workload across a virtualized computing environment. Users will have always-available access to the right computing resources when they need them, and avoid costs by reducing the need to buy additional hardware to meet growing computing requirements.

LSF HPC provides High Performance Computing Centers with intelligent scheduling for parallel and serial workload, providing the ability to solve large, grand challenge problems. LSF HPC takes full advantage of high performance network interconnects available on clustered systems and supercomputers.

 

Complementary Products

LSF MultiCluster
LSF MultiCluster extends an organization’s reach to share resources beyond a single LSF cluster to span geographical locations. With LSF MultiCluster, local ownership and control is maintained ensuring priority access to any local cluster while providing global access across an enterprise grid.

LSF Analytics
LSF Analytics provides the visibility into the operation of a LSF cluster to support project planning decisions. LSF Analytics enables project managers to better co-ordinate projects, estimate project completion times and provision resources more accurately.

LSF License Scheduler
LSF License Scheduler optimizes the usage of all application licenses across LSF clusters by allocating licenses to users based on an organization's established distribution policy. Using LSF License Scheduler, organizations can realize dramatic reductions in additional application license purchases and increase overall access to license resources.

 

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