Platform

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Platform Computing Europe
CHEP 2000 LSF Joining Forces in a Global Compute
Farm
Platform Computing Ltd. Units 18/19, Building
2 Intec Business Park, Wade Road Basingstoke,
Hampshire RG24 8NE United Kingdom T 44 (0) 1256
370 500 F 44 (0) 1256 370 501 email
info-europe_at_platform.com
Michaela Kurz Major Account Manager
Platform Computing GmbH Terminalstr. Mitte
18 85356 München, Germany Tel [phone]
07-161 Fax[phone]
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Who is Platform Computing?

• A global company

Direct Sales Offices in North America, UK,
Germany, France

• An industry leader

Technology, Partnerships, Organisation
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LSF and GLOBUS

• Metacomputing Infrastructure
• Global scheduling local scheduling
• GLOBUSLSF at NASA
• Discussions with other sites

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LSF Suite of Products
LSF Base
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LSF MultiCluster Architecture
Red Cluster Master
Yellow Cluster Master
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LSF MultiCluster

• Provides resource sharing
• Separately managed sites
• Multiple departments/divisions in a large
  corporation
• Computing centre supporting many sites
• Multiple cooperating organisations
• Loosely connected sites
• Over long distance or slow links
• Across WAN with time differences

• While maintaining
• Autonomy
• Each cluster has its own LSF administrators
• Each cluster sets its own policies
• Administrators of different clusters negotiate in
  setting up inter-cluster resource sharing
  policies
• Reliability
• The availability of one cluster does not affect
  another
• Communication failures between clusters does not
  cause job loss

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ENEA Software Conceptual Structure
User programs commercial code
Telnet
Load Leveler
LSF
AFS Geographical cross platform File System
NT
Quadrics
Linux
SUN
Compaq
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LSF customers

• ENEA
• CERN
• Fermilab
• SLAC
• LANL
• LLNL
• LBNL

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Need for Enhanced Cooperation

• Resource sharing between sites
• User authentification
• Secure job submit
• Accounting

... what else?
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The Global Compute Farm

• European initiative planned
• support for enhanced cooperation
• please contact us here at CHEP if youre
  interested