SGI uses Ice to build SGI Management Suite, a comprehensive, best-in-class, SGI platform-wide software set for installing, managing and monitoring high performance computing systems. SGI Management Suite software provides a powerful yet flexible interface through which to monitor essential system metrics and initiate management actions. It reduces the time and resources spent administering systems by improving software maintenance procedures and automating repetitive tasks - lowering total cost of ownership, increasing productivity, and providing a better return on the customer's technology investment. SGI Management Suite optimizes the performance of single system image systems and clusters scaling to tens of thousands of servers, and is a unifying component of SGI's technical computing software environment.