Workload Management

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

The LSF product line

Core Products

LSF helps to optimize existing resources through the Virtual Execution Machine architecture. The software clusters 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 also provides High Performance Computing Centers with intelligent scheduling for parallel and serial workload, providing the ability to solve large, grand challenge problems. The software 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.