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Moab provides a powerful resource management interface that enables significant flexibility in how resources and workloads are managed. Highlights of this interface are listed in what follows:
| Highlight | Description |
|---|---|
| Support for Multiple Standard Resource Manager Interface Protocols | Manage cluster resources and workloads via PBS, Loadleveler, SGE, LSF, or BProc based resource managers. |
| Support for Generic Resource Manager Interfaces | Manage cluster resources securely via locally developed or open source projects using simple flat text interfaces or XML over HTTP. |
| Support for Multiple Simultaneous Resource Managers | Integrate resource and workload streams from multiple independent sources reporting disjoint sets of resources. |
| Independent Workload and Resource Management | Allow one system to manage your workload (queue manager) and another to manage your resources. |
| Support for Rapid Development Interfaces | Load resource and workload information directly from a file, a URL, or from the output of a configurable script or other executable. |
| Resource Extension Information | Integrate information from multiple sources to obtain a cohesive view of a compute resource. (That is, mix information from NIM, OpenPBS, FLEXlm, and a cluster performance monitor to obtain a single node image with a coordinated state and a more extensive list of node configuration and utilization attributes.) |