NASA uses LSF Multicluster for production Grid computingDallas 08 Nov 2000 NASA has acquired Platform's LSF MultiCluster software to manage the combined scientific and engineering computing workloads at the Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, OH and the Langley Research Centre in Hampton, VA. LSF MultiCluster extends the reach of Platform's market leading Load Sharing Facility (LSF) distributed resource management (DRM) capabilities by coordinating the scheduling of the computing resources between the NASA centres in a fail safe, lights-out, peer-to-peer operational relationship, without requiring the addition of new hardware and without having to learn or implement any new job submission language or queuing system syntax.
Prior to implementing LSF MultiCluster, users at the centres were constrained by the capacity of their local compute farms. Although local resources were optimized through the use of the LSF Standard software, users often needed more processors, or processors with different performance characteristics, for jobs that exceeded the capabilities of their home SGI and Linux clusters. LSF MultiCluster expands the available capacity by enabling transparent user access to resources at both centres.
"Our CFD and structural analysts applications are used in very complex aerodynamics and propulsion projects that require prompt access to significant computing resources," explains Isaac Lopez, Parallel Computing Testbed Development and Application Manager at the Glenn Centre. "Platform's LSF MultiCluster increases our available computing capacity by harnessing the computing resources from the Glenn and Langley centres. We were pleasantly surprised to find that installation took less than one day for both sites, and we are now exploring opportunities for inter-agency meta computing as well."
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