"Moab offers a powerful and flexible set of features that allow us to optimize workload and implement a complex control policy on the cluster."

Dr. Paul Calleja, Director, HPC Services, University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Accounting and Cost Recovery

Overview

The University of Cambridge HPC cluster Darwin, ranked by the Top500 as the 20th fastest machine in the world when deployed in 2006, serves as a shared compute resource.

Challenge

The university-wide service must recover all purchasing, operational, and future upgrade costs by means of a precise per-use accounting system.

Solution

Moab Cluster Suite_^® from Adaptive Computing and Gold Accounting and Allocation Manager

Results

Moab helps the university operate Darwin with accurate accounting and SLAs at the level of the scheduler. With Moab's feature-rich set of reporting and statistics elements, Darwin is constantly running at peak performance levels with minimal wasted resources.

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