| FBSNG - Farms Batch System Next Generation |
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Abstract
FBSNG is a batch system designed for a farm architecture. Traditional batch
system features such as job submission, job queueing, and load balancing are
built into the system.
Major features of FBSNG are:
- Parallel Batch Jobs:
FBSNG job is a collection of sections. Each section is an array of
identical, potentially co-operating, processes running on one or more
farm nodes (worker nodes). User may specify conditional dependencies
of sections of the same job on one another.
- Flexible Farm Configuration:
FBSNG Administrator defines the farm configuration in terms of computational
resources such as CPU power, disk storage, magnetic tape drives available
on each farm node (worker node). FBSNG allows unlimited number of
resources of several types to be defined for the farm.
- Dynamic Farm Configuration:
FBSNG Administrator can modify farm configuration using interactive
configuration utility or GUI without re-starting FBSNG.
Dynamic farm configuration functionality is also provided through
FBSNG API.
- Load Balancing:
FBSNG requires users to specify amount of resources required for each
batch process and each section as a whole. Based on such resource
requirements, current availability of the resources on the farm,
and other farm configuration parameters, FBSNG Scheduler makes the
decision when and where to start the batch process.
- FBSNG Scheduler:
FBSNG has fully customizable Scheduler. It allows to be set up
to achieve a variety of different configurations based on particular
installation requirements.
- FBSNG API:
FBSNG provides Application Programming Interface (API). API allows
users to develop custom monitoring and control tools.
Currently, only Python binding of API is available.
- Kerberos authentication support:
FBSNG has an option to use Kerberos for user authentication.
Also, FBSNG can create Kerberos credentials for batch processes.
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