The following tables compare general and technical information for notable computer cluster software. This software can be grossly separated in four categories: Job scheduler, nodes management, nodes installation and integrated stack (all the above).
General information
| Software | Maintainer | Category | Development status | ArchitectureOCS | High-Performance/ High-Throughput Computing | License | Platforms supported | Cost | Paid support available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alchemi | |||||||||
| Amoeba | MIT | ||||||||
| Base One Foundation Component Library | Proprietary | ||||||||
| Stacki | StackIQ | All in one | actively developed | Master deploys to members | High-Performance | Various licenses | RHEL, CentOS, Oracle, Scientific Linux | Varies | Yes |
| HTCondor | University Of Wisconsin CS dep | Job/Data Scheduler | actively developed | Distributed master/executions/submits node | HTC | Apache license v2.0 | Unix-like, Windows, Mac OS X | Free | Yes |
| DIET | INRIA, SysFera, Open Source | All in one | GridRPC, SPMD, Hierarchical and distributed architecture, CORBA | HTC/HPC | CeCILL | Unix-like, Mac OS X, AIX | Free | ||
| Enduro/X | Mavimax, Ltd. | Job/Data Scheduler | actively developed | SOA Grid | HTC/HPC/HA | GPLv2 or Commercial | Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris, AIX | Free / Cost | Yes |
| Ganglia | Monitoring | actively developed | BSD | Unix, Linux, Windows NT/XP/2000/2003/2008, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Tru64, HPUX. | Free | ||||
| GreenTea Software | |||||||||
| Gridbus Toolkit | |||||||||
| Globus Toolkit | Globus Alliance, Argonne National Laboratory | Job/Data Scheduler | actively developed | SOA Grid | Linux | Free | |||
| Grid MP | Univa (formerly United Devices) | Job Scheduler | no active development | Distributed master/worker | HTC/HPC | Proprietary | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris | Cost | |
| grun | Erik Aronesty (Expression Analysis) | actively developed | master/worker | HPC/HTC | GPL | Linux, Mac OS X, BSD | Free | ||
| JPPF | Laurent Cohen (founder) | actively developed | distributed master/worker and P2P | HPC/HTC | Apache license v2.0 | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Android | Free | ||
| Kubernetes | actively developed | Apache license v2.0 | Linux | Free | |||||
| LanderCluster | Lander Software Technology Co. Ltd | Job Scheduler/Monitoring | actively developed | Proprietary | Windows, Linux, & UNIX platforms | Cost | |||
| JSTM | |||||||||
| Apache Mesos | Apache | actively developed | Apache license v2.0 | Linux | Free | Yes (Mesosphere) | |||
| Moab Cluster Suite | Cluster Resources, Inc. | Job Scheduler/Monitoring | actively developed | HPC | Proprietary | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, AIX, OSF/Tru-64, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, FreeBSD & other UNIX platforms | Cost | ||
| Moab Cluster Suite | Cluster Resources, Inc. | Job Scheduler | actively developed | HPC | Proprietary | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, AIX, OSF/Tru-64, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, FreeBSD & other UNIX platforms | Cost | ||
| Maui Cluster Scheduler Molokini Edition | Job Scheduler | HTC/HPC | Proprietary | Unix-like, | Free | ||||
| NetworkComputer RTDA | Runtime Design Automation | actively developed | HTC/HPC | Proprietary | Unix-like, Windows | Cost | |||
| OAR | INRIA and LIG | Job Scheduler | actively developed | HPC/HTC | GPL | Linux/*nix | Free | ||
| OpenCCS | PC2, University of Paderborn [6] | Job Scheduler | actively developed | Master/Worker, planning-based scheduler, reservations | HTC | GPL | Linux | Free | |
| OpenHPC | OpenHPC project | all in one | actively developed | HPC | Linux | Free | No | ||
| OpenLava | Teraproc | Job Scheduler | actively developed | Master/Worker, multiple admin/submit nodes | HTC/HPC | GPL | Linux | Free | Yes |
| PBS Professional | PBS Works (A division of Altair) | Job Scheduler/Monitoring | actively developed | HPC | Proprietary | Unix, Linux, Windows | Cost | ||
| Platform LSF | IBM Platform | Job Scheduler | actively developed | HPC/HTC | Proprietary | Unix, Linux, Windows | Cost | ||
| Platform Cluster Manager | IBM Platform | All in one | actively developed | HTC/HPC | OpenSource | Linux | Free | ||
| Rocks Cluster Distribution | Open Source/NSF grant | All in one | actively developed | HTC/HPC | OpenSource | CentOS | Free | ||
| Popular Power | |||||||||
| ProActive | INRIA, ActiveEon, Open Source | All in one | actively developed | Master/Worker, SPMD, Distributed Component Model, Skeletons | HTC/HPC | GPL | Unix-like, Windows, Mac OS X | Free | |
| PRUN | Andrey Budnik | Job Scheduler | actively developed | Master node/exec clients, multiple admin/submit nodes | HTC | Apache license v2.0 | Linux/*nix | Free | |
| RPyC | Tomer Filiba | actively developed | MIT License | *nix/Windows | Free | ||||
| SLURM | SchedMD | Job Scheduler | actively developed | HPC/HTC | GPL | Linux/*nix | Free | Yes | |
| Oracle Grid Engine | Univa | Job Scheduler | active Development moved to Univa Grid Engine | Master node/exec clients, multiple admin/submit nodes | HPC/HTC | Proprietary | *nix/Windows | Cost | |
| Son of Grid Engine | Dave Love | Job Scheduler | actively developed | Master node/exec clients, multiple admin/submit nodes | HPC/HTC | SISSL | *nix/Windows | Free | |
| SynfiniWay | Fujitsu | actively developed | HPC/HTC | ? | Unix, Linux, Windows | Cost | |||
| TORQUE Resource Manager Torque | Cluster Resources, Inc. | Job Scheduler | actively developed | custom | Linux, *nix | Free | |||
| UniCloud | Univa | All in One (dynamic cluster creation/re-sizing, cloud bursting, etc.) | Actively Developed | Proprietary | Oracle Unbreakable Linux, RHEL, and Cent Os | Cost | |||
| UniCluster | Univa | All in One | Functionality and development moved to UniCloud (see above) | Free | Yes | ||||
| UNICORE | |||||||||
| Univa Grid Engine | Univa | Job Scheduler | actively developed | Master node/exec clients, multiple admin/submit nodes | HPC/HTC | Proprietary | *nix/Windows | Cost | |
| Vaakya | Vaakya Technologies Pvt Ltd | R&D Technology provider | actively developed | Cross-Platform, Distributed Computing Architecture | Proprietary | Windows/Linux | Cost | ||
| XGE | |||||||||
| Xgrid | Apple Computer | ||||||||
| Software | Maintainer | Category | Development status | Architecture | High-Performance/ High-Throughput Computing | License | Platforms supported | Cost | Paid support available |
Technical information
| Software | Implementation Language | Authentication | Encryption | Integrity | Global File System | Global File System + Kerberos | Heterogeneous/ Homogeneous exec node | Jobs priority | Group priority | Queue type | SMP aware | Max exec node | Max job submitted | CPU scavenging | Parallel job | Job checkpointing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torque | C | SSH, munge | None, any | Heterogeneous | Yes | Yes | Programmable | Yes | tested | tested | Yes | Yes | Yes (blcr) | |||
| OAR | Perl, Ocaml, Ruby | SSH | None, NFS | Heterogeneous | Yes | Yes | Programmable | Yes | tested 80k | tested >20k | Yes | Yes | Yes (blcr) | |||
| OpenLava | C/C++ | OS authentication | None | NFS | Heterogeneous Linux | Yes | Yes | Configurable | Yes | Yes, supports preemption based on priority | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Platform LSF | yes | Yes to start jobs. Did it suspend job when the person come back? | Yes | |||||||||||||
| HTCondor | C++ | GSI, SSL, Kerberos, Password, File System, Remote File System, Windows, Claim To Be, Anonymous | None, Triple DES, BLOWFISH | None, MD5 | None, NFS, AFS | Not official, hack with ACL and NFS4 | Heterogeneous | Yes | Yes | Fair-share with some programmability | basic (hard separation into different node) | tested ~10000? | tested ~100000? | Yes | MPI, OpenMP, PVM | Yes |
| Enduro/X | C/C++ | OS Authentication | GPG, AES-128, SHA1 | None | Any cluster Posix FS (gfs, gpfs, ocfs, etc.) | Any cluster Posix FS (gfs, gpfs, ocfs, etc.) | Heterogeneous | OS Nice level | OS Nice level | SOA Queues, FIFO | Yes | OS Limits | OS Limits | Yes | Yes | No |
| Slurm | C | Munge, None, Kerberos | Heterogeneous | Yes | Yes | Multifactor Fair-share | yes | tested 120k | tested 100k | No | Yes | Yes (blcr) | ||||
| Univa Grid Engine | C | OS Authentication/Kerberos/Oauth2 | Certificate Based | Integrity | Arbitrary, e.g. NFS, Lustre, HDFS, AFS | AFS | Fully heterogeneous | Yes; automatically policy controlled (e.g. fair-share, deadline, resource dependent) or manual | Yes; can be dependent on user groups as well as projects and is governed by policies | Batch, interactive, checkpointing, parallel and combinations | Yes, with core binding, GPU and Intel Xeon Phi support | commercial deployments with many tens of thousands hosts | >300K tested in commercial deployments | Yes; can suspend job on interactive usage | Yes, with support of arbitrary parallel environments such as OpenMPI, MPICH 1/2, MVAPICH 1/2, LAM, etc. | Yes, with support for user, kernel or library level checkpointing environments |
| Software | programation language | Authentication | Encryption | Integrity | Global File System | Global File System + Kerberos | Heterogeneous/ Homogeneous exec node | Jobs priority | Group priority | Queue type | SMP aware | Max exec node | Max job submitted | CPU scavenging | Parallel job | Job checkpointing |
Table Explanation
- Software: The name of the application that is described
- SMP aware:
- basic: hard split into multiple virtual host
- basic+: hard split into multiple virtual host with some minimal/incomplete communication between virtual host on the same computer
- dynamic: split the resource of the computer(CPU/Ram) on demand
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source: wikipedia
