Choosing between Platform LSF, Sun Grid Engine, PBS Pro, Moab, and more

What it means: LSF from Platform Computing, Grid Engine from Sun Microsystems, PBS family including PBS Pro from Altair, and Moab from Cluster Resources rank among leading scheduling (workload management) systems. As these competing solutions are not compatible with each other, organizations that need to manage compute resources need to make the non-trivial decision to choose one. As the scheduler typically interfaces with several IT systems of the company at many levels, this decision is multi-faceted and has business as well as technical implications. An additional layer of complexity exists in organizations that have to cope internally with two or more incompatible scheduling architectures.

How we can help: GridwiseTech has tremendous experience in working with various scheduling systems. Comprehensive management consulting and technical assistance is available in this domain. We have executed feasibility studies as well as successful Proof-of-Concept scheduling installations for numerous clients, both corporate and academic. GridwiseTech has an equal relationship with most DRM vendors, remains fully independent and provides unbiased judgement.