Complementary Software

LSF MultiCluster

Intelligent, policy-driven batch application workload processing across multiple LSF clusters
LSF MultiCluster extends an organization's reach to share virtualized 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. Organizations using LSF MultiCluster complete workload processing faster with increased computing power, enhancing productivity and speeding time to results.

Features:

Job Forwarding
Resource Leasing Model
Sophisticated Accounting
Comprehensive, extensible and standards-based security

LSF License Scheduler

Intelligent, policy-driven application license optimization for LSF clusters
LSF License Scheduler optimizes the usage of all application licenses across LSF clusters by allocating a virtualized pool of 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.

Features:

Project-based fairshare
License ownership enforcement and preemtion
Multiple cluster support

LSF Reports

Intelligent cluster operation reporting for LSF clusters
LSF Reports provides a number of key LSF cluster performance metrics in a series of reports which provide visibility into cluster utilization. Using LSF Reports, administrators are able to improve overall cluster performance and troubleshoot configuration problems.