13.0 Resource Managers and Interfaces

• 13.1 Resource Manager Overview
• 13.2 Resource Manager Configuration
• 13.3 Resource Manager Extensions
• 13.4 Adding Resource Manager Interfaces
• 13.5 Managing Resources Directly with the Native Interface
• 13.6 Utilizing Multiple Resource Managers
• 13.7 License Management
• 13.8 Provisioning Managers
• 13.9 Managing Networks
• 13.10 Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
• 13.11 Enabling Resource Manager Translation

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:

• 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.)