Altair PBS Professional

What is Altair PBS Professional?

What is Altair PBS Professional?

Altair PBS Professional is a powerful, fast workload manager designed to improve productivity, optimize utilization and efficiency, and simplify the administration of Clusters, Clouds, and HPC supercomputers. PBS Professional automates task scheduling, management, monitoring, and reporting, and is the reliable solution for complex Top500 systems and smaller clusters.

Why PBS Professional?

Industry-leading workload manager

PBS Professional is the reliable solution for complex Top500 systems and smaller cluster owners.

Fast throughput

Tested for more than 50,000 nodes, Altair PBS Professional is scaled to support millions of cores with fast working dispatch and minimal latency, supporting more than 1,000,000 jobs per day.

Unmatched security

Altair PBS Professional is the only workload manager that has earned EAL3+ certification and the only workload manager that provides integration with RedHat's "cross-domain security" (or "MLS" technology.

Main features

Powerful, policy-driven programming

PBS Professional speeds up job execution and selects optimal job placement on a variety of widely distributed resources. It's easy to create smart policies to manage distributed mixed-vendor computing assets as a single, unified system.

Fast and reliable startup of huge MPI jobs

PBS Professional is tested on tens of thousands of MPI stations and minimizes delays caused by faulty nodes.

Support for Linux control groups

Cgroups eliminate resource contention so that jobs run faster and do not interfere with each other or the OS.

Topology-aware planning

PBS Professional optimizes task placement for all HPC network topologies (including any topologies built into InfinibandC and GigE, as well as proprietary vendor technologies), improving application performance and reducing network contention.

GPU programming

Support for advanced GPU scheduling, the ability of a job to separately allocate each individual GPU on a node means that you can share a single node across multiple jobs where each job requires its own GPUs.

Business resilience

A highly redundant automatic failover architecture without a single point of failure means that jobs are never lost and will continue to run despite server, network, and even PBS daemon failures.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

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