Moab Accounting Manager Scott Jackson SC11 – Nov 12-18, 2011

Moab Accounting ManagerScott Jackson

SC11 – Nov 12-18, 2011

Accounting

Charging

Allocation Management

Accounting

© 2011 Adaptive Computing

Usage Tracking

Moab Accounting Manager

1

2

3

4

1 A job is submitted

Moab Workload Manager

2 The job is started

3 The job completes

Resource or Service

Manager(i.e. Torque)

4 Usage is recorded

UsageRecord

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Customizable Usage Records


Organizational Hierarchy

Project

Department

College Arts and Sciences

Sciences

biology chemistry

Arts

music film

Charging

ChargeRates

Fees

Multipliers

Usage

Resources

ValueE

Name

Type Name Instance RateVBR Processors 1VBR Memory 0.001NBR License Matlab 5VBU Power 0.001VBU CpuTime 1NBU Feature GPU 200VBM Discount 0.9NBM QualityOfService Premium 2NBM QualityOfService BottomFeeder 0.5VBF Shipping 25NBF Zone Asia 200

Example Charge Rates

Charge CalculationTotal = (S Resources + S Usage) x P Multipliers + S

FeesVBR NBR VBU NBU

VBM NBM

VBF NBF

VBRNBR VBU

NBU

VBMNBM

VBF NBF

VBRNBR VBUNBU

VBM NBM

VBFNBF

VBM NBM

NBFVBF

Resource Charges Usage Charges

Multipliers

Fees

+x

+

Resource & Usage Charges


Account of Charges

Chargeback Accounting


0

1

2

3

40 Ample accounts are established



2 The job is started

Account of Charges

3 The job completes

Resource or Service


4 A charge is assessed

and usage is recorded

UsageRecord


Charge Rates


Accounts


Account Statement

AllocationManagement

Engineering

Chemistry

Computer Science

Bioinformatics

Physics

25 %

15 %

25 %

30 %

5 %

Cutting the “Pie”

Chemistry

Physics

Bioinformatics

Engineering

Computer Science

Total System

Resources

Total System

Resources


Enforcing Allocations


0

2

1

4

3

5

6

DepositQuote

3 A reservation is placed against the account


Reservation

5 The job completes

Resource or Service


6 The reservation is removed

Reservation

a charge is assessed

Charge

UsageRecord

and usage is recorded

0 Deposits are made in accounts


2 A quote or balance check is performed

4 The job is permitted to start

h Pre-Pay gAccount

Job Timeline

End-UserMoabMoab

5-CreditJob

h Post-Pay gAccount

Job Timeline

End-UserMoabMoab

5-CreditJob

Credit LimitLien

h Installments gAccount

Job Timeline

End-UserMoabMoab

5-CreditJob


Debit Account Balance


Credit Account Balance


Year-end Resource Exhaustion

It is common to see projects get off to a slow start and then have a surge of activity at the end when results are due.

Without careful management of expectations, this can be a cause of considerable anxiety.

100% Machine Capacity

Project A’s Allotment

Project A’s Demand

Project Period


Capacity & Workload Planning:The Brick Approach Controlling project usage is key to capacity and workload

planning. The use of regularly expiring allocations allows you to

establish a project cycle and use the brick approach to allocation management.

Now- 1 Qtr + 3 Qtr+ 2 Qtr+ 1 Qtr- 3 Qtr - 2 Qtr + 4 Qtr

100 % Capacity

10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

Staggered Allocations

10,00010,00010,00010,000-0-Active Allocations:

expired

10,000

10,000

10,000

expired

expired

expired

Allocation1

Allocation 2

Allocation 3

Allocation 4

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul NovOctSepAug JanDec


Expiring Allocations

Interaction Methods

GUI

API

CLI


Other Gold Features

Guaranteed Quotes

Powerful QueryingRoles and Authentication

Historical Journaling


What’s NewMoab Accounting Manager 6.0

In this major release of Moab Accounting Manager, many HPC-centric limitations were generalized for application in the cloud space.

Account design was overhauled to allow accounts to be associated with arbitrary constraints instead of being tied specifically to users, projects and machines.

The usage record is now more generic for more general applicability in cloud. Better filtering can be applied to the results of bank object queries. These filters

also enable more refined role privilege filtering. Command-line clients have been added to better manage roles and charge rates. Object defaults and auto-generation have been generalized to custom objects. Arbitrary organizational relationships can be established and applied to the

usage dynamics. Quotes, reservations and charges may use independently negotiated prices for

resource and usage rates. A priority can be associated with accounts to influence account precedence

when charging.


What’s NextMoab Accounting Manager 7.0?

Adds support for infinite allocations. Deposits can be made with infinite amounts or infinite credit limits.

Adds support for resetting of allocations and better tracking of total allocation amounts as well as percent used and remaining.

A new charge table stores an itemized breakdown of charges. Adds support for conditional charge rates, charge rate defaults and enhanced

charge rate value ranges. Includes a new event scheduler that can be used to schedule periodic or future

Moab Accounting Manager commands. A new payment scheduling capability allows Moab Accounting Manager to

manage periodic charges during the lifetime of a workflow or long-running job as well as apply setup and teardown charges.

Moab Accounting Manager now will install the Perl module dependencies from CPAN and will allow the designation of separate directories for the installation.


60,000

Lump Sum

Active Allocations: 60,000-0-

expiredAllocation

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul


10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

60,000

Allocation 1

Allocation 2

Allocation 3

Allocation 4

Allocation 5

Allocation 6


Stepped

50,00040,00030,00020,00010,000-0-

expired

expired

expired

expired

expired

expired

Active Allocations:


10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

Inverted Steps

10,00020,00030,00040,00050,00060,000-0-Active Allocations:

expired

10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

expired

expired

expired

expired

expired

Allocation 1

Allocation 2

Allocation 3

Allocation 4

Allocation 5

Allocation 6



5,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

Overlapping-Staggered

10,00010,00010,00010,00010,00010,000

5,000

-0-Active Allocations:

expired

5,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

expired

expired

expired

expired

5,000expired

Allocation 6

5,000expired

Allocation 1

Allocation 2

Allocation 3

Allocation 4

Allocation 5

Allocation 7


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Moab Accounting Manager Scott Jackson SC11 – Nov 12-18, 2011