OfficeGRID®
Most offices are not populated outside normal working hours, 8am to 4pm on
working days, this implies that the computing resources are unused about 128
out of 168 hours each week. The vision of MESH-Technologies is to allow
for the constructive use of these hours of wasted time. Would you allow any
other of your company's resources to be utilized less than 10%? (according to Microsoft
SIGMetrics paper, 1998-2000) OfficeGRID glues this pool of unused
computational power together, thus making in possible to utilize a
great percentage of that otherwise unused computer time.
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"takes Grid computing beyond simple batch systems"
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OfficeGRID offers many useful features and the most essential features, and their benefits, are listed below.
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Cross platform - Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT, Mac OS X and many flavors of Linux/UNIX.
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An easy to use graphical interface for submission of jobs to the Grid.
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Simple, yet powerful, command line interface commands.
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Workers run while screen saver mode is active.
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This important feature allows the resources of the office Grid to be
used in such a way that the users will never notice that Grid jobs/applications are running on their computers.
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Parameter studies are made easy through a simple job description language.
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Simply specify the application, the parameter ranges and the stepping
values, and submit the job description. All the desired
scenarios are automatically created and submitted to the Grid for
parallel execution.
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A flexible Grid application programming interface (API).
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In addition to web/GUI and command line interfaces, OfficeGRID
also includes direct access to the Grid through a Python API
module. Combine the advantages of the object oriented Python
programming language with OfficeGRID to gain complete control over
advanced job orchestration beyond what the simple job description
language allows in itself.
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Implements a "pull" Grid model instead of the tradional "push" model.
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Forget all about signing your resources over to a Grid system. OfficeGRID
allows the resources themselves to decide when to participate in Grid and
when not to.
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A simple and easy to use batch system lets you execute programs on the
office Grid.
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Take any valid command line and submit it to OfficeGRID. It is that simple.
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Dynamic Grid structure, where computers can come and go.
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Fault tolerant communication.
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Transient network failure during a long interactive execution? No problem
OfficeGRID survives and continues execution after the network is
reestablished.
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Multi core support.
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Easy Grid configuration.
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Full support for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
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No lost jobs.
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OfficeGRID is also fault tolerant when it comes to jobs, so if a
resource is stopped or if it crashes during job execution it won't result in lost jobs. Failed jobs are automatically rescheduled for later execution.
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Save power with Wake on LAN support.
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Save on the power bill by allowing executors to
shutdown or suspend when no suitable jobs are available. With the Wake
on LAN feature available in most modern computers, it is possible to
only wake up the executing hosts when they are actually needed.
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Users retain their usual environment in jobs.
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Expert support.
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MESH-Technologies has a set of experts, who themselves do real super- and
scientific computing, to provide help and support for customers.
OfficeGRID®, MESH-MPI®, and TMem® are registered trademarks of MESH-Technologies A/S.
Other names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
© MESH-Technologies A/S 2003 - 2024.