[gridengine users] RE﹕ OT: IBM to acquire Platform Computing!

[William Bryce]

You can get it....it is called 'Pentaho'  http://www.pentaho.com ....you will have to build your own cubes, reports, for it though.

Bill.

On 2011-10-18, at 1:29 AM, Chi Chan wrote:

> 寄件者： William Bryce <bbryce at univa.com>
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>> Yup, exactly right.  That is why we created UniSight.  
>> It is an ETL engine and complete BI server based on Pentaho.
>> So when you run your report query on 5 million jobs it doesn't take the whole day.
> 
> When are we going to get the source code of UniSight?
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> 寄件者： Rayson Ho <rayrayson at gmail.com>
>> Another example, GPU integration. A lot of sites don't have CUDA or
>> OpenCL applications. While Platform's GPU integration is still the
>> best among all of the solutions provided by major batch systems
>> (including the new one in Open Grid Scheduler), over 90% of the sites
>> don't need it.
> 
> I wanted to take a look at the GPU integration. Where's the OGS download link?
> 
> --Chi
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> On 2011-10-17, at 2:36 PM, Rayson Ho wrote:
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>> 2011/10/11 Chi Chan <chichan.gridengine at yahoo.com.tw>:
>>> However, if you look at the growth rate of Platform before 2000, Platform grew at least 50% per year. Of course
>>> as companies are larger it is harder to grow, but another factor is that there are more Platform LSF competitors,
>>> like SGE, Torque/Maui, Condor, SLURM, etc, and they have similar functionalities but are much cheaper.
>> 
>> 
>> It has been like that for a few years - nowadays people just switch
>> from SGE to PBS, LSF to SGE, or to SLURM or Condor, etc... without
>> worrying much about the features (or lack thereof) in any batch
>> systems.
>> 
>> A lot of the distinguishing features in LSF are not used by over 80%
>> of the users. But people who need those features are willing to pay
>> the expensive licensing cost!
>> 
>> For example, Platform has integration for parallel environment for
>> (almost) each supercomputer platform. So for instance, if you don't
>> have SGI machines (which over 95% of the sites don't), then you won't
>> need the SGI MPT integration.
>> 
>> Another example, GPU integration. A lot of sites don't have CUDA or
>> OpenCL applications. While Platform's GPU integration is still the
>> best among all of the solutions provided by major batch systems
>> (including the new one in Open Grid Scheduler), over 90% of the sites
>> don't need it.
>> 
>> And finally, Platform Analytics does reporting properly! I attended a
>> business analyst workshop a few years ago, and after knowing how
>> companies are handling their data for analysis, I immediately realized
>> that the ARCo way was not efficient. While both ARCo & Platform
>> Analytics store job & cluster information to a database, the way data
>> is archived & processed makes a huge difference in load of the
>> database, and the type of queries that can be easily issued by the
>> cluster administrator. And I used to avoid mentioning this but as
>> Platform will be owned by IBM it does not matter now - luckily, the
>> work needed to fix ARCo is not extremely huge, in the end, Platform
>> Analytics uses a 3rd party front-end, so ARCo can be re-architected to
>> do very similar things relatively easily.
>> 
>> Rayson
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> William Bryce | VP of Products 
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William Bryce | VP of Products 
Univa Corporation - 1001 Warrenville Road, Suite 100 Lisle, Il, 65032 USA 
Email bbryce at univa.com | Mobile: 512.751.8014 | Office: 416.519.2934