Conventions

12.0 Resource Managers and Interfaces

• Resource Manager Overview
• Resource Manager Configuration
• Resource Manager Extensions
• Adding New Resource Manager Interfaces
• Managing Resources Directly with the Native Interface
• Utilizing Multiple Resource Managers
• License Management
• Resource Provisioning
• Resource Manager Translation

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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.)