Company Also Demonstrates Application Services Solution Integrated with
Platform Computing's LSF
FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Evergrid, Inc., a provider of
global resource management software for high performance computing (HPC)
and next generation data centers, today announced it will demonstrate the
beta version of Evergrid Load Manager at SC '07, the international
conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis,
being held in Reno, Nevada, November 10-16, 2007.
Evergrid Load Manager targets HPC and enterprise workloads by enabling
fine-grain monitoring and control of application load on multiple servers,
while guaranteeing the service levels of each application. It ensures that
vital applications provide timely service and can throttle down application
resource usage when server capacity is needed to run higher priority
applications. It also monitors application resource utilization in real
time, and its reporting capability can enable improved capacity planning.
Based on Evergrid's patented operating system abstraction technology,
Load Manager implements a comprehensive user-level scheduler that allows
independent control of CPU, network and storage bandwidth, and memory usage
of each application running on the server. By controlling these system
resources at the application level, it can ensure that any application,
regardless of priority, gets the resources it needs to run at any given
point in time. It also provides a set of abstractions that lets data center
administrators organize application processes into logical units and assign
capacity to each unit.
"Evergrid's continuous availability and resource management software is
designed for HPC and large data centers with expanding grids or clusters of
commoditized servers. Managing to high levels of utilization in this
environment, while guaranteeing customer service levels and optimized job
throughput, is extremely difficult," said Fred van den Bosch, CEO of
Evergrid. "Evergrid addresses both the availability and utilization issues
with software solutions that optimize data center resources from the point
of power-on all the way to application load management. Load Manager will
be the first step in our evolution toward a fully integrated stack, with
the complete range of functionality needed in the HPC and utility
enterprise data center."
At SC '07, the company will also feature Evergrid Availability Services
(AvS-Batch), its patent-pending high availability software, integrated with
the LSF workload manager from Platform Computing. The combined solution
allows massively parallelized distributed applications and single-process
applications, such as Electronic Design Automation applications, to run at
near 100-percent reliability in high performance computing clusters.
Evergrid AvS-Batch captures the collective state of distributed,
parallel and/or long running applications, and prevents downtime due to
hardware or software failures by performing checkpoint, migration and
recovery of the application to ensure automatic failover across multiple
nodes and tiers. AvS-Batch also ensures that when a job is pre-empted by a
scheduler, the job is simply checkpointed to disc to allow a higher
priority job to run to completion, and is then resumed, ensuring that it
never loses a compute cycle. Stateful job pre-emption optimizes resource
utilization while providing a much more deterministic completion time for
applications. The integration of AvS and LSF is an example of how AvS can
be integrated with leading job schedulers to provide this critical set of
functionality. Evergrid AvS-Batch can be licensed separately for
integration with LSF and other popular resource managers.
Evergrid will showcase Evergrid Load Manager and the integrated
AsV-Batch/Platform LSF in booth #2715 at SC '07, November 10-16, 2007,
Reno-Sparks Convention Center, Reno, Nev.
For more information, visit http://www.evergrid.com.
About Evergrid, Inc.
Evergrid, a provider of complete server and application lifecycle
management infrastructure for next generation data centers, lets massively
parallelized, distributed applications run properly on high performance
cluster grids, at near 100 percent reliability. Evergrid's fault tolerant
application abstraction software prevents downtime, automates checkpoint,
migration and recovery of applications, and scales to thousands of nodes
with less than five percent performance overhead.
Evergrid's leadership team brings extensive management and technology
expertise from IBM, Amdahl, VERITAS, Motorola, Tandem Computers and the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Evergrid is a private
company. For more information, visit http://www.evergrid.com.
Media contact:
Patricia Colby
Page One PR for Evergrid
415-875-7494
patricia@pageonepr.com
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