EnFuzion harnesses the available CPU power on your computer network and makes all computers perform like one big powerful team. EnFuzion users have been able to reduce computational time from months to days, from days to hours and from hours to minutes.
The CPU power can be contributed by any computer on the network, including dedicated or shared servers and standard desktop computers. EnFuzion is ideally suited to exploit the combined power of rack mounted and blade servers. The EnFuzion workload can be made transparent to users on individual machines.
EnFuzion offers the highest throughput and lowest latency of any resource management product on the market today. It can easily handle thousands of jobs per second with the latency in the sub second range, for example. EnFuzion provides multiuser support and accounting reports, while maintaining security. EnFuzion also supports real time processing through datastream jobs.
EnFuzion 8.0 delivers significant new features, including improved ease of use and deployment, fail over capabilities on the root, simplified handling of single jobs, identification of EnFuzion users and increased security. The release is backward compatible with previous releases.
The improved web graphical user interface provides an extended set of commands for monitoring and controling EnFuzion operation from any standard browser. A new set of utilities makes it straightforward to install EnFuzion as a service on the network, so that it can be accessed and used remotely by multiple users. EnFuzion root can be automatically restarted after a machine failure, so that the work lost is minimized. Single jobs can be submitted simply through a command line or a shell script, which removes the need for EnFuzion specific scripts for these jobs. All EnFuzion runs are assigned an owner, which is useful for accounting reports and in allocating access rights for security purposes.
This manual gives you the information you need to deploy EnFuzion across your organization and to exploit EnFuzion's many features.
We discuss the basic concepts in Chapter 1 and provide a short tutorial in Chapter 2. Installation instructions for Windows are given in Chapter 3 and for Linux/Unix in Chapter 4. Configuration is discussed in Chapter 5, Chapter 6 and Chapter 7, presenting submit, root and node configuration, respectively. Description of jobs is presented in Chapter 8. Chapter 9 provides details on job execution. Extensive capabilities to interact with the scheduler are described in Chapter 10. Chapter 11 is a reference chapter, providing details about EnFuzion programs.
We at Axceleon welcome you to EnFuzion 8.0, our approach to extreme clustering and grid computing. We invite you to use EnFuzion to apply the combined CPU power to your computational tasks and do more with your computing infrastructure.
The Worldwide Axceleon EnFuzion Team
December, 2003