ARM selects Librato to increase efficiency and productivity

SANTA CLARA, USA: Librato Inc., a leading provider of software solutions that increase the utilization of cloud, grid and data center resources, announced that ARM, the world’s leading semiconductor intellectual property supplier, has selected Librato Smart Suspend to increase the utilization of its existing server infrastructure.

Smart Suspend enables ARM to more efficiently manage job priority, by using lossless preemptive scheduling, which preserves all of a job’s completed work as well as the value of resources expended running it up to the point of preemption, while also enabling the consolidation of interactive and batch jobs on the same node.

“We had a number of new requirements when we began looking for a way to increase the utilization of our server infrastructure. We wanted a solution that could support diverse workloads, as well as our current design flows, so that our users didn’t have to change the way they worked. The solution had to provide fast, reliable job suspension and resumption, and also had to easily integrate with Platform LSF,” said Puneet Grover, US Manager of IT of ARM.

“Since deploying and running Librato Smart Suspend on our North American grids in Austin and San Jose over the past year we have significantly increased our server utilization. We are currently in the process of broadening our full US deployment and testing ahead of deployment in our other locations around the world.”

ARM selected Librato Smart Suspend to increase the number of simultaneously submitted jobs and to improve application access without overloading the existing grid infrastructure. Prior to using Smart Suspend, ARM faced difficulties during periods of peak demand and being able to dynamically and rapidly react to changes in workflow priorities.

ARM was looking for ways to alleviate and prevent the resulting “slot contention” these challenges present. Librato Smart Suspend has addressed these challenges by providing ARM with quantifiable increases in the efficiency of its Linux-based grids as well as in the number of jobs/users concurrently served by the shared infrastructure during peak demand. This results in higher engineering productivity as well.

Librato Smart Suspend overcame ARM’s issues by providing fast, safe, and lossless job preemption, which relinquishes all resources consumed by a running job, including any application licenses, in order to immediately run a higher priority job.

After the higher priority job completes, Librato Smart Suspend properly resumes the suspended job from its preemption point by reclaiming all resources it was using, including memory content and application licenses. Smart Suspend allows organizations to increase their job throughput and utilize application licenses as efficiently as possible, while maximizing server utilization and user productivity.

“Companies are looking for ways to get the most out of their existing resources, and to do so without making major changes or investments,” said Fred van den Bosch, CEO of Librato. “Librato Smart Suspend has enabled ARM to do just that – to help their engineers to get more designs through their grids in less time without disrupting their infrastructure and operations. The benefits ARM has received showcase Librato’s dedication to providing solutions that meet the technical challenges of today’s workload management market.”

Librato will be participating in the Synopsys Designer Community Expo held during the 2010 Synopsys User Group (SNUG) conference in Santa Clara, CA, March 29th-31st. There, Librato will be demonstrating its Smart Suspend and Availability Services (AvS) products for Linux-based HPC/Grid computing.