"One of the important characteristics of the Moab—SLURM solution is its ability to handle applications running simultaneously across a very large number of MareNostrum's processors."

Sergi Girona, BSC Operations Director

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Overview

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is a public research center. It houses MareNostrum, which ranks No. 2 among southern Europe's most powerful supercomputers.

Challenge

Resource allocation, failure handling, data staging, resource utilization.

Solution

Moab Cluster Suite_^® was selected by Barcelona Supercomputing Center to optimize scheduling, workload, and resource management of all research projects running on MareNostrum.

Results

The Moab—SLURM solution adds significant manageability and optimization to MareNostrum. Moab is used as an external scheduler for the SLURM resource manager. The software allows BSC to gain extensive control over which jobs are eligible for scheduling, how the jobs are prioritized, and where the jobs will run. Moab simplifies and unifies management and acts as a flexible policy engine that guarantees service levels and speeds job processing, allowing BSC to conduct scientific projects more efficiently.

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