About Platform Analytics
Platform Analytics provides several interactive dashboards that are ready to use “out of the box�, making it quick and easy to analyze key data. Existing or new data sources can be rapidly combined with Platform Analytics data to provide data views tailored specifically to an organization’s unique requirements without the need to build intermediate data views.
- Introduction to Platform Analytics
Platform Analytics is an advanced analysis and visualization tool for analyzing massive amounts of Platform LSF workload data. It enables managers, planners and administrators to easily correlate job, resource and license data from one or multiple Platform LSF clusters for data-driven decision-making. With better insight into HPC datacenter environment, organizations can identify and quickly remove bottlenecks, spot emerging trends and plan capacity more effectively.
- Architecture overview
The Platform Analytics architecture is based on the Platform Enterprise Reporting Framework (PERF) architecture. Platform Analytics adopts and extends the PERF technology to cover all data collection requirements and to improve data collection reliability. Platform Analytics supports Vertica, a state-of-the art MPP columnar database that runs on standard hardware and uses a fraction of the resources of traditional database management systems. Support for the Oracle database is also available. The Platform Analytics reporting server that has Tableau Server is used as the Relational Online Analytics Processing (ROLAP) tool to generate reports and to allow other users to view these reports using a web browser.
- System architecture
The system architecture gives an overview of data flow in Platform Analytics.
- PERF directories in the Platform Analytics node
PERF components reside in various perf subdirectories within the LSF directory structure. This document uses LSF_TOP to refer to the top-level LSF installation directory, and ANALYTICS_TOP to refer to the top-level Platform Analytics installation directory. In UNIX, you need to source the PERF environment to use these environment variables.
- Licensing
The Platform Analytics license file includes licenses for data collection (data volume audit for Vertica.)