Phoenix Clustering Management Suite

Effortless Cluster Administration

• Fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Scientific Linux.
  Up-to-date and installed with the latest patches.
   

• Single, central point of management.
  All configuration, user accounts, and health monitoring are performed from the head node.
   

• Quick, intuitive node provisioning.
  100% menu-driven installation process facilitates easy deployment of new nodes.
   

• Support for multiple node types.
  Pre-defined node types include standard compute nodes, large memory nodes, accelerator nodes, storage nodes, and Lustre* server nodes.
  Additional custom node types can be added if needed.
   

• Easily modified node software stack.
  Each node type has its own configuration files and installation scripts to allow fine-grained customization of the software stack for different node types.
   

• User account management.
  A single command creates new user accounts and access to all cluster nodes.
   

• Parallel command execution.
  Simultaneously copy files to or execute commands on all nodes or subgroups of nodes in the cluster.
   

• Out-of-band system management.
  Remote power on/off and KVM-over-LAN via dedicated IPMI 2.0 network.
   

• Web and command-line based health monitoring.
  Web-based monitoring is available via ganglia, including custom plug-ins for CPU temperature and fan speed monitoring.
  Command-line checks are available via a single clusterQC command, customized for each cluster and node type to check hardware and software conformity.
   

• Customized to each system for optimal user experience.
  Custom clusters need custom software.
  Modifications or additions needed for specialty items will be included into a site-specific Phoenix stack as needed.
   

• Pre-bundled job scheduler, parallel libraries, and performance libraries.
  Open source job scheduler (torque/maui or Slurm), parallel libraries (Open MPI), Intel® Math Kernel Library (MKL) included.
  Others available on request.

• Customized to each system for optimal user experience.
  Custom clusters need custom software.
  Modifications or additions needed for specialty items will be included into a site-specific Phoenix stack as needed.
   

• Pre-bundled job scheduler, parallel libraries, and performance libraries.
  Open source job scheduler (torque/maui or Slurm), parallel libraries (Open MPI), Intel® Math Kernel Library (MKL) included.
  Others available on request.

• Pre-configured environment modules.
  Easily manage different versions of applications and libraries without conflicts.
  End-users can dynamically modify their environment with simple “module load” and “module unload” commands.
   

• Optional commercial schedulers, compilers and 3rd-party software.
  Advanced scheduling with Moab HPC Suite, transparent code optimization with Intel® or PGI® compilers, improved software development with 3rd-party development tools.

• Performance tuning.
  All clusters are tuned for top performance for a wide range of applications.
   

• Certified Intel® Cluster Ready.
  Conforms with Intel®’s Scalable System Framework cluster architecture.

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• Pre-configured environment modules.
  Easily manage different versions of applications and libraries without conflicts.
  End-users can dynamically modify their environment with simple “module load” and “module unload” commands.
   

• Optional commercial schedulers, compilers and 3rd-party software.
  Advanced scheduling with Moab HPC Suite, transparent code optimization with Intel® or PGI® compilers, improved software development with 3rd-party development tools.

• Performance tuning.
  All clusters are tuned for top performance for a wide range of applications.
   

• Certified Intel® Cluster Ready.
  Conforms with Intel®’s Scalable System Framework cluster architecture.