System Management

Maxeler acceleration solutions are designed to integrate into production server environments, supporting standard operating systems and management tools. Our accelerator management software coordinates resource use, scheduling and data movement within the accelerated compute environment.

Easy Integration

Maxeler accelerated nodes run production-standard Linux distributions without modification, including Red Hat Enterprise 4 and 5.

The accelerator management software installs as a standard RPM package that includes all software necessary to utilize accelerated applications, including kernel device driver, status monitoring daemon and runtime libraries. All the management tools use standard methods for status and event logging.

On-line Health Monitoring

Maxeler's software ensures that production-scale accelerated clusters operate at full efficiency. MaxNodes support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) for remote management. The Maxeler status monitoring daemon logs all accelerator health information. User tools provide visibility into accelerator state and system check utilities generate reports in easily machine readable format for integration into cluster-level automatic monitoring systems.

The status monitoring daemon can also monitor system temperatures, for both accelerator cards and system mainboard and optionally take action in the event that temperatures rise beyond a user-specified threshold.

Diagnostics

The MaxTop tool displays the current status of all the cards in the system, including current users, attached processes, loaded configurations and current temperatures.

Detailed diagnostic software supports the accelerator subsystems, allowing software bugs to be easily separated from potential hardware issues.