 "Altair Offers New Release Of PBS GridWorks")
Altair Engineering, a provider of technologies and services for managing compute-intensive workloads, has announced the release of PBS GridWorks 10.1. This latest version builds upon the scalability of PBS Professional for workload scheduling; delivers PBS Catalyst, an application-aware job management portal; and unveils PBS Analytics to provide expanded options for visualising usage data to optimise high-performance computing investments.
PBS GridWorks is a complete suite of software tools vital for building and managing private clouds of high performance computing resources. The PBS Catalyst portal can be used to enable software-as-a-service (SaaS) gateways. Workloads can be optimised for cloud-computing configurations by using PBS Professional. PBS Analytics is suitable for distributed, highly scalable environments, whether monitoring current resource use or planning for future changes.
“PBS GridWorks 10.1 provides our technical-computing customers with a cost-effective solution for managing their compute-intensive application workloads.” said Bill Nitzberg, chief technical officer for PBS GridWorks. “Cost-effective cloud computing requires tools that can match constantly changing workloads with available resources for the most efficient use of all resources. Monitoring how efficiently resources are being used – especially energy – is very important. Our Green Provisioning feature, which is part of PBS Professional, helps customers get the most from their HPC investments by turning off underutilised systems.”
What’s New in PBS GridWorks 10.1
Version 10.1 of PBS GridWorks expands charting and graphing options for PBS Analytics for extracting insights into resource-utilisation levels and capacity trends. Built using a Web 2.0 framework, PBS Analytics enables advanced analyses and visualisation of historical usage data from one or multiple PBS Professional clusters.
The new release also introduces PBS Catalyst Desktop, which provides a ‘drag and drop’ interface for submitting, monitoring and managing workloads connected to PBS Professional compute nodes. PBS Catalyst increases end-user productivity since there are no complicated commands to learn. PBS Catalyst automates the job submission process, allowing users to spend more time creating better models and simulations.
With the 10.1 release, the PBS GridWorks suite provides a solution that allows organisations to maximise the utilisation of HPC resources, make data-driven IT planning and purchasing decisions, manage application workloads and minimise the energy consumed by global computing assets.
PBS GridWorks 10.1 is available immediately from Altair and Altair channel partners.