Altair Unveils PBS Professional 11.0 HPC Workload Manager

By DE Editors

Altair Engineering, Inc. has announced the upcoming release of PBS Professional 11.0.

As a commercial-grade HPCworkload and resource management, PBS Professional continues to help customers increase software use and ROI, and help improve overallproductivity.

According to Altair, major features and benefits of PBS Professional 11.0 include:

• FasterScheduling: Scheduler speed is up to three times faster, down toless than 30 seconds per cycle for typical HPC workloads (on up to80,000 cores).
• Faster Submission: Job submission speed is seven times faster.
• Faster Cold Start: Cold start is 45 times faster, reduced to less than one minute for 100,000 jobs.
• Re-architectedCray Support: PBS Professional "vnode" support for Cray systems,allowing individual MPI task selection, task placement, supportfor node exclusivity, and the framework for topology-awarescheduling.

Additionally, the company says PBS Professional meets the growing demand for:

• CloudComputing: HPC software-as-a-service (SaaS) Clouds are beingpowered by the full PBS Works suite, including Altair's ownHyperWorks On-demand.
• Topology-aware Scheduling: With theaddition of Cray support, PBS Professional now optimizes taskplacement for all HPC network topologies—such as Infiniband, SGI,Cray, IBM and GigE—improving application performance and reducingnetwork contention.
• GPU Scheduling: Leveraging PBSProfessional's extensible architecture allows for graphic processingunits (GPUs) scheduling on all platforms.

“Thefuture of GPU technology for HPC as a general-purpose computing unit isbecoming increasingly important as the industry moves toward GPU-basedclusters for running scientific and engineering applications,” saysPBS Works Chief Technical Officer Bill Nitzberg, Ph.D. “The ability fora workload management tool, like PBS Professional, to support GPUconfiguration and scheduling is essential to enable this type ofcomputing. With PBS Professional, customers are able to use a CPU andGPU together in a heterogeneous computing model, greatly increasing application speed and lowering overall power requirements.”

PBSWorks also offers other HPC solutions within its suite: PBS Catalystand PBS Analytics. PBS Catalyst simplifies the submission andmanagement of jobs running on PBS Professional compute nodes. PBSCatalyst comes as two modules: a Web-based version, allowing users tosubmit work to remote PBS Professional compute nodes, and a desktopclient version, enabling users to submit jobs to local and remotesystems.

PBS Analytics is a data analysis and visualizationsolution that provides PBS Works administrators with job and licenseanalyses to support data-driven planning and decision-making. TheseWeb-based portals support multiple simultaneous views of historicalusage data. PBS Analytics includes two modules: License Analytics andWorkload Analytics.

For more information, visit Altair.

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