Benefits of MultiCluster

Within an organization, sites may have separate, independently managed LSF clusters. Having multiple LSF clusters could solve problems related to:

  • Ease of administration

  • Different geographic locations

  • Scalability

When you have more than one cluster, it is desirable to allow the clusters to cooperate to reap the following benefits of global load sharing:

  • Access to a diverse collection of computing resources

  • Enterprise grid computing becomes a reality

  • Get better performance and computing capabilities

  • Use idle machines to process jobs

  • Use multiple machines to process a single parallel job

  • Increase user productivity

  • Add resources anywhere and make them available to the entire organization

  • Plan computing resources globally based on total computing demand

  • Increase computing power in an economical way

MultiCluster enables a large organization to form multiple cooperating clusters of computers so that load sharing happens not only within clusters, but also among them. MultiCluster enables:

  • Load sharing across a large numbers of hosts

  • Co-scheduling between different clusters

  • Resource ownership and autonomy to be enforced

  • Non-shared user accounts and file systems to be supported

  • Communication limitations among the clusters to be taken into consideration in job scheduling