Customers choose Altair PBS Professional and Grid Engine to:

• – Improve performance with a fast, powerful, reliable workload manager
• – Reduce costs by optimizing hardware, software, and power use
• – Get first-rate technical support with personal, one-on-one attention
• – Maximize user productivity and ensure SLAs are met
• – Ensure cloud readiness with a product proven for public and private clouds
• – Gain peace of mind with an established commercial leader known for excellent service and customer care
• – Simplify HPC and cluster administration
• – Gain the flexibility to meet complex custom requirements
• – Implement business priorities by ensuring the most important jobs run first and complete on time
• – Reduce risk by minimizing—and automatically recovering from—hardware failures
• – Enable users to transparently submit, manage and monitor containerized applications just like any other workload
• – Altair Grid Engine manages details like placing jobs optimally, prioritizing workloads, handling exceptions, and ensuring that required Docker images are available on hosts with appropriate resources on our behalf
• – Altair Grid Engine supports new frameworks and maximize use of GPU resources on-premises and in the cloud
• – Easily deploy and scale dedicated and hybrid HPC clusters in your choice of cloud
• – Altair Grid Engine Deep market penetration in Life Sciences and Financial Services verticals

Distribution Media and Software Documentation

Altair PBS Professional & Grid Engine are available for download. Upon order delivery, customers will receive an entitlement certification via electronic delivery, which includes a URL to the HPE Licensing Portal and additional license information. Customers will need to visit the HPE Licensing Portal to retrieve their license key.

After retrieving their license key, customers will need to visit the specified Altair website to download PBS Professional and complete their support setup.

Customers may also download user guides and other documentation at Altair User Guides.

Workload Management on HPE Systems

Hewlett Packard Enterprise integrates with workload managers and schedulers like Altair PBS Professional & Grid Engine to help drive the highest utilization levels for HPE Apollo systems, HPE SGI 8600 and HPE ProLiant clusters. Both PBS Professional & Grid Engine support multiple users and applications with an efficient queue management system that enables jobs—both batch and interactive—to be presented to the system based on site-defined policies and priorities. They also utilize a scheduling system to make the most efficient use of available hardware and software resources. With PBS Professional, system administrators can set user priorities and policies, track usage, and provide a queuing system for job submissions.

Tasks

Altair PBS Professional & Grid Engine manage and monitor the computational workload for one or more servers. To properly distribute workloads, PBS Professional executes the following tasks:

• – Queuing jobs: Collects the jobs (work or tasks) that need to run on one or more servers. The end user submits the job to their desired workload manager , where the job will remain queued until it is selected and run.
• – Scheduling jobs: Selects which jobs to run, and when and where to run them, according to the policy specified by the site administrator. PBS Professional & Grid Engine allow the system administrator to prioritize jobs and allocate resources in a variety of ways to maximize efficiency and throughput.
• – Monitoring jobs: Tracks system resources, enforces usage policy, and reports usage. PBS Professional & Grid Engine also track job completion, ensuring that jobs run despite system outages.

Commands

Altair PBS Professional & Grid Engine provide a set of commands that allow the customer to submit, monitor and manage their jobs. Some commands are available for execution by any user, while others require administrator-level privileges. Commands may different behavior depending on the role of the person invoking them. Please reference the Altair’s Product Documentation for more information.

Interface

Altair PBS Professional & Grid Engine provide a command line interface (CLI) and application program interfaces (C APIs). In addition, Altair offers a graphical user interface (GUI) for users and administrators.

Operating System Compatibility

Altair PBS Professional & Grid Engine are supported on x86_64 and aarch64 on the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), CentOS, and Ubuntu.

• – Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 & 8 x86_64 and Arm64
• – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 & 15 x86_64 and Arm64
• – CentOS 7 & 8 on x86_64 and Arm64
• – Ubuntu 16.04,18.04 and 20.04 on x86_64 and 18.04 on Arm64
• – openSUSE Leap 42
• – Oracle Linux 6, 7 and 8
• – Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or higher, 8, 8.1 Pro / Enterprise, 10 Pro / Enterprise

Third Party Software Integration

Altair PBS Professional & Grid Engine allows for tight integration with hundreds of end user applications across numerous industries. Below is a partial list of application integrations.

• – HPE Performance Cluster Manager
• – ABAQUS and ABAQUS Array
• – ANSYS, ANSYS CFX and ANSYS CMGL
• – ANSYS ICEPAK
• – CFD++
• – Docker
• – Echos
• – Flow3D
• – Fluent
• – Mathematica
• – StarCCM and StarCCM
• – Navigator

Please contact Altair for more information or visit http://www.altair.com.

Hardware Compatibility

Altair PBS Professional & Grid Engine are supported on the following Gen10+ HPE systems:

• – HPE Cray Supercomputer systems
• – HPE Apollo systems, including Apollo 2000, 6000 and 6500
• – HPE Apollo pc40, Apollo sx40 and Apollo kl20 systems
• – HPE ProLiant servers, including the DL server line

For more information, please contact your Hewlett Packard Enterprise sales representative.

Support

Support for Altair PBS Professional is provided by a combination of HPE Services and direct-to-vendor support. Support for Altair Grid Engine is provided direct-to-vendor. Information about support processes will be provided at the point of providing a license key to Altair.

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