AXIS GridLink Feature List

Submit jobs from a workstation to a GridLink processor farm

• after submission the workstation is free to perform other tasks
• can submit one or multiple jobs in one or multiple datasets
• submit jobs to GridLink without opening the datasets (useful when connection is slow)
• submit jobs to GridLink via command line

Monitor job progress

• at any time from any version of the client copy of AXIS the user can connect to GridLink and see real-time job progress and disconnect at any time
• any user configured to work with GridLink can monitor other users jobs (authorization in GridLink farm profile required)
• monitor jobs from a remote connections (e.g. from home via VPN)

Manage Job Queue

• review current job queue, jobs history and jobs statistics (user Id, timestamps, status etc.)
• view last saved logs of finished jobs right from the job queue screen
• view log of currently running job without interrupting the calculations
• change pending jobs sequence of execution
• change pending and running job resource priority
• suspend/resume pending jobs
• terminate running jobs
• print job queue reports for documentation

Multiple Queue Configuration (two or more GridLink licenses required)

• maintain/manage multiple job queues (e.g. processor farm is shared by two or more departments)
• execute multiple distributed jobs in parallel in different queues

Automatic performance/reliability features

• supports unlimited number of AXIS versions on the farm
• automatically selects correct version of AXIS
• starts/stops master and helper copy of AXIS on all farm machines
• executes jobs in a queue according to user defined sequence
• executes one distributed job and/or multiple non-distributed jobs (e.g. DataLink) in one queue in parallel
• executes multiple distributed jobs in parallel (multi-queue configuration)
• load-balances helpers between jobs in queues according to user-specified resource priority
• automatically restarts failed helpers, terminates crashed helper copies (if any) when the job is done
• automatically cleans up AXIS temporary files between jobs
• supports computers on different subnets

Configuration and Deployment

• configure and administer GridLink processor farm remotely via AXIS GridLink Utility
• update GridLink Controller service remotely on all machines
• Deploy and check AXIS versions on all machines remotely with one button click
• Configure centralized drive mapping, AXIS data and executable paths etc.
• Customize ratios for resource priority levels
• Suspend/Resume processor farm

Security

• Maintain authorized users list per job queue
• Assign different levels of permissions to different users to specify which actions are allowed for each user
• Access Groups feature to secure access to various disk partitions per user
• AXIS security key verification at the time of the job submission (no need to stay connected after this and keep RKey running)
• Ability to limit maximum resource priority per user

Backup/Restore/Copy

• Built-in Active Backup functionality that will not interfere with running jobs
• Ability to schedule backup jobs to safely move specified data to a shadow location for tape backup etc.
• Backup jobs status documentation
• Backup/Restore/Copy individual datasets from your AXIS client copy via GridLink - much faster for large datasets as it is done remotely