Altair's PBS Professional Added to Dell's High-Performance Computing Solution Portfolio

By DE Editors

Altair Engineering, Inc. has announced that PBS Professional, the commercial-grade HPC workload management solution and job scheduler, is now available directly through Dell’s ordering system for its high-performance computing customers.

PBS Works is a solution for optimizing workload scheduling and management of complex jobs in the HPC environment to help ensure that technologies are being used to their greatest efficiency. It enables organizations to maximize efficient use of their computing resources and to initiate HPC jobs rapidly, thereby improving their overall productivity and return on investment.

“Our agreement with Dell allows our customers to obtain an integrated high-performance computing solution,” says PBS Works CTO Bill Nitzberg. “When products are accessible through Dell’s world-renowned order management system, customers can streamline large-scale implementations, minimize acquisition costs and maintain direct access to Altair’s sales, support and engineering teams. With this agreement in place, our engineering, scientific and educational communities have streamlined access to PBS Works, further enhancing our ability to help HPC projects run efficiently and easily.”

For more information, visit Altair’s PBS Works site.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.