Univa UD has unveiled a new analytics product UniPlan that reportedly ensures optimal utilisation of commercial applications in cluster or cloud computing environments.
According to Univa, the new analytics product simulates the project workload for a specific application and then performs scenario analyses to identify bottlenecks or performance gaps. The data provided by the new analytics product allows users to determine application utilisation profiles and resource allocation or license purchase decisions to derive the possible value from these applications.
The new analytics product is powered by WorkloadAnalyzer from Runtime Design Automation (RTDA), a provider of computing resource management software. The simulation-based workload analysis and compute farm/cluster planning tool, WorkloadAnalyzer takes historical workloads from existing licensing monitoring or workload management tools such as Sun Grid Engine, Platform LSF, or RTDA’s Network Computer to model a particular compute farm or cluster configuration to simulate workload over this model.
Univa claims that with the data and insights received from using the new analytics product, companies can make informed planning decisions such as whether to buy more hardware or software, whether to expand an external cloud footprint, how to minimise overall wait time and maximise throughput, and what the impact might be of a personnel change.
The new analytics product is available as a standalone product or as part of Univa’s UniCloud Enterprise software bundle.
