"We are pleased to partner with Cluster Resources to offer the Moab Cluster Suite because it compliments our current offerings and adds additional value for Cray customers in managing their workload environment", stated Jan Silverman, senior vice president of business development and strategy for Cray. "Moab Cluster Suite enhances Cray's goal of delivering superior performance and system efficiency."

"Moab's optimization capabilities help deliver on performance goals and do so in a way that delivers more cycles to the organisations and projects that need it most", stated Michael Jackson, president of Cluster Resources. "Recently, it is was very rewarding to watch yet another delighted customer log in to their system and point out with a smile that they were regularly attaining 97.5 to 99.5 percent utilization with Moab."

Moab Cluster Suite is a policy-based intelligence engine that integrates scheduling, managing, monitoring and reporting of cluster workloads. It integrates with a resource manager (e.g. TORQUE, PBS Professional, LSF, etc.) to generate maximum job throughput and to guarantee service levels are met. Currently Moab optimizes a number of the largest Cray supercomputers, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory's more than 23,000 CPU core system, as well as an approximately 26,000 CPU core system and a nearly 20,000 CPU core system at other leading labs. Moab yields higher performance because it is optimized to handle multiple layers of Cray XT systems' unique environment, rather than just one.

The TORQUE Resource Manager provided with the Moab Cluster Suite provides control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. It is an open-source, community effort based on the original PBS project, with significant advances in the areas of scalability, fault tolerance and feature extensions.

Moab integrates Cray's monitoring and management toolset with its scheduling and reservation engine for a holistically optimized solution. Cray customers therefore receive tangible benefits such as the ability to immediately respond to various failures, run multiple jobs on a single node, create node sets and node attributes and apply jobs and reservations to these node sets/attributes or to a specified node list.

"Moab can add this same value to other resource managers, such as PBS Professional, LSF, SLURM, etc.", stated Michael Jackson, president of Cluster Resources. "This lets customers get the greatest job throughput and ROI out of their system, while reducing the total cost of ownership due to improved management."

Moab can also unify management between heterogeneous cluster environments, such as consolidating queuing and administration, to let sites tightly integrate new Cray acquisitions with legacy hardware.