Platform Consulting Services, in conjunction with select systems integrators, delivers a set of grid methodologies to help you plan, build, run and manage a comprehensive set of grid solutions.
No matter what your requirements or budget, we can tailor our offerings to meet your needs, including:
Our experienced consultants understand the key business areas that grid computing can improve, including the online and batch applications that are critical to your business.
Product Implementation Services
Ease the implementation process and quickly grid-enable your applications.
Platform consultants will help you get your grid investment up and running as quickly as possible, while transferring knowledge to your staff so that they will be able to maintain the solution after we leave.
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Platform Product |
Optional Service Components |
| Build grid infrastructure and enable applications |
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Platform LSF |
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Platform LSF HPC |
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Platform LSF MultiCluster |
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Platform Symphony | |
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Infrastructure planning and design |
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Product installation |
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Scheduling policy definition and configuration |
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Job flow definition and configuration |
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Application assessments and grid enablement |
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Performance tuning |
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On-site training and knowledge transfer |
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Operations integration and production deployment |
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Ongoing production administration and systems management | |
| Reporting and analysis |
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Platform LSF Reports |
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Platform LSF Analytics |
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Implementation planning and design |
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Product installation |
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Data collection configuration |
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Custom report creation |
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On-site training and knowledge transfer |
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Data analysis and recommendations (IT consolidation, workload tuning, business correlation and capacity planning) |
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Operations integration and production deployment | |
| License Optimization |
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Platform LSF License Scheduler | |
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License bottleneck identification and value assessment |
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Product installation |
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License distribution planning and configuration |
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Application configuration to support pre-emption and checkpointing |
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On-site training and knowledge transfer |
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Operations integration and production deployment | |
Configuration Review
Optimize your grid solution with Platform product upgrades. Tap into our knowledge of best practices to maximize the return on investment of your grid technology.
Optional service components include:
- Review of configuration and log files
- Observation of daily operations and troubleshooting
- End-user job flow review
- New feature review and implementation planning
- Recommendations report and presentation to your team
- Implementation assistance for selected recommendations
Proof of Concept
Validate that grid will work in your environment. Platform consultants can create a proof of concept that demonstrates both technical and financial feasibility of a grid solution.
Optional service components:
- Grid workshop to create an enterprise grid vision and roadmap for your organization
- Set-up a test grid infrastructure and technical validation of Platform's workload, analytics, or license optimization solutions
- Demonstrate the ease of grid-enabling applications
- Creation of ROI models and business cases
- Detailed analysis and planning for implementation of your grid initiatives
Training
Educate your team how to maintain your grid investment as adoption grows in your organization.
Platform training courses help new and experienced users / administrators gain the skills necessary to effectively install, configure and manage your Platform solution in a heterogeneous, distributed computing environment.
Learn more about Platform Training