Platform Analytics is an analysis tool for Platform LSF environments that employs OLAP techniques to analyze long-term historical data from HPC clusters and grids for a variety of purposes useful to the business. These include, project and capacity planning, resource usage accounting and chargeback applications, and the identification of opportunities to improve efficiency or avoid cost.

You should consider Platform Analytics if you are a:

• Capacity planner that needs to visualize hardware and software resource usage trends to make more informed planning decisions
• Project planner wishing to conduct root-cause analysis to remove bottlenecks and to ensure that projects obtain their fair share of resources required to run optimally
• Business analyst wanting to correlate activities with service levels, find opportunities for cost reduction, and account for resources consumed by business units and projects in order to implement chargeback accounting