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Description

SAS Grid Manager empowers organizations to excel in their competitive landscape by enhancing computing capabilities, efficiently addressing peak demands in a cost-effective manner through a versatile, centrally governed grid computing framework. This system allows IT departments to adaptively meet service level agreements by reallocating computing resources to handle high-demand workloads or shifting business requirements, all while maintaining centralized control over policies, programs, queues, and job prioritization for various users and applications. In a grid setup that incorporates multiple servers, tasks can be executed on the most suitable resource available, ensuring that if one server encounters an issue, tasks can seamlessly transition to an alternative server without delay. IT personnel can carry out maintenance on designated servers or augment computing resources without causing interruptions to ongoing analytics tasks or business operations. Additionally, SAS Grid Manager enhances support for a range of analytics environments by efficiently managing jobs not only in SAS but also in other programming languages, which fosters rapid execution of analytical processes. This capability significantly boosts productivity while ensuring that analytics workflows remain uninterrupted, further solidifying an organization’s operational efficiency.

Description

xCAT, or Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit, is a versatile open-source solution aimed at streamlining the deployment, scaling, and oversight of both bare metal servers and virtual machines. It delivers extensive management functionalities tailored for environments such as high-performance computing clusters, render farms, grids, web farms, online gaming infrastructures, cloud setups, and data centers. Built on a foundation of established system administration practices, xCAT offers a flexible framework that allows system administrators to identify hardware servers, perform remote management tasks, deploy operating systems on physical or virtual machines in both disk and diskless configurations, set up and manage user applications, and execute parallel system management operations. This toolkit is compatible with a range of operating systems, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE, and CentOS, as well as architectures such as ppc64le, x86_64, and ppc64. Moreover, it supports various management protocols, including IPMI, HMC, FSP, and OpenBMC, which enable seamless remote console access. In addition to its core functionalities, xCAT's extensible nature allows for ongoing enhancements and adaptations to meet the evolving needs of modern IT infrastructures.

API Access

Has API No 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

Aiven for PostgreSQL No 
CentOS No 
IBM PowerVM No 
KVM No 
MariaDB No 
MySQL No 
NVIDIA Cumulus Linux No 
PowerAI No 
SAS Viya Yes 
SQLite No 
Ubuntu No 
VMware Cloud No 

Integrations

Aiven for PostgreSQL Yes 
CentOS Yes 
IBM PowerVM Yes 
KVM Yes 
MariaDB Yes 
MySQL Yes 
NVIDIA Cumulus Linux Yes 
PowerAI Yes 
SAS Viya No 
SQLite Yes 
Ubuntu Yes 
VMware Cloud Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial Yes 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

Free
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac No 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

SAS

Founded

1976

Country

United States

Website

www.sas.com/en_us/software/grid-manager.html

Vendor Details

Company Name

xCAT

Founded

2024

Website

xcat.org

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