1. Optena: Enterprise Condor
Condor Annual Meeting
March 15th, 2005
Optena: Enterprise Condor
Surendra Reddy
Founder & CTO
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2. Agenda Background Oracle Case Study
UW / Optena – Our Condor Partnership
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3. Background 18 years in Software development
Passion for state of the art computing technologies
Was with Oracle from
Part of distributed database development group
Chartered to develop highly adaptive computing infrastructure for Oracle
In Condor Club
Since 1998
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4. Oracle Case Study - Challenges
Oracle Challenges
Less than 10% Utilization of systems
Higher Capital Equipment
Higher Operational Expense
Deterministic job execution
Assured Service Levels
Configuration and Control nightmare
Management of Computing Infrastructure
Chartered to solve this in 1997
For Software testing & validation
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5. Oracle Case Study - Requirements Analysis 1997
Solution needed following attributes
Job Management
Resource Allocation
Harvesting the Idle CPU cycles
Automated Monitoring
Simplified or Zero Configuration
Ease of Administration
Tools for Workflow Design and Monitoring
Tools for Service Life Cycle Management
Tools for Policy and Rule Engine
Event Notification System
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6. Oracle Case Study – Implementation Timeline
Validation of existing products
Solution Validation
Working Prototype
2002-Present
Founded Optena
Mission is to provide Scalable, Manageable High Throughput Computing Solutions
Partnered with UW to get a source license of Condor in order to build a complete solution
Plan was to build additional capability into Condor and around it
Deployed to Oracle
Initial 400 node production Grid Dec 2003
Grew to node Grid by Apr 2004
Running on Windows, Linux and Solaris
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7. Solution Architecture
Pointview
Management
Server
Orchestration Layer
Service Router, Workflow Engine, Policy and Rule Engine
Optena Enterprise Condor
Automated Monitoring
Simplified or Zero Configuration
Ease of Administration
Tools for Workflow Design and Monitoring
Tools for Service Life Cycle Management
Tools for Policy and Rule Engine
Event Notification System
Job Management
Resource Allocation
Harvesting the Idle CPU cycles
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8. Oracle Success Story: How Optena Helped Oracle Improve Quality and lower TCO
OV comment - This can be the beginning of a product and market validation section.
SJW – Made several other suggested changes to the market section and this seems an appropriate place for this slide. Clearly could be still be moved if need be…
Pre-Optena
Post Optena
Notes
Workload Throughput
1 full regression test / week
150 full regression tests / day
Accelerate product testing
Increased quality
Administrator Productivity
1 Admin / 25 systems
40 Admins total
1 Admin / 300 systems
10 Admins total
Added 2000 systems Eliminated 30 admins
System Utilization
< 15% per system
> 80% per system
5x increase in effective capacity per system
Use of Commodity Servers
Facing $75M expenditure for proprietary SMPs
Used 3,000 commodity servers instead
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9. Optena & UW Partnership
Put back all work Optena did in Condor back to Open Source
We want the Condor community to leverage on what we did in Condor
Work with Condor team to merge Optena work
Release date June 2005
Ongoing development investment into future Condor development
Driven by the needs of the community under the direction of UW
Optena Offerings around Condor
Technical assistance to the community
On going investment of Optena technical resources in technical forums (e.g. condor user mailing list)
Creation and maintenance of a publicly accessible Condor Knowledge Base
Commercial grade support
Basic and Premium Support
Software suite in the Orchestration and Management layers
Consistent with capabilities in production at Oracle
Learn more about Optena at
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10. Summary
UW Optena partnership in place to further the value of Condor going forward
Creates new capabilities and options for all Condor users
See you tonight at the reception!
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11. Thank You Any Questions? Learn More About Optena At: OPTENA.COM

12. Screenshots

13. Hierarchical View
Properties View
Instant Messages

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