The PBS Works Blog

SAVE THE DATE: PBS Works User Group 2012

kcojo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:36:10 +0000

Altair’s PBS Works will be holding a user group Feb. 21 & 22, 2012 in San Jose, CA. This exciting event will allow PBS Works users to participate in panel discussions, attend hands-on training and workshops, as well as interact with with Altair’s technical team.

Visit our website for further details. Registration begins early October. Be on the look out for more details in the next few weeks.

PBS Works Partner Spotlight: Bright Computing Now Resells PBS Professional

kcojo — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:45:18 +0000

Bright Computing has become a global authorized reseller of Altair Engineering’s PBS Professional® software. Bright automatically configures and deploys PBS Professional throughout the cluster, and provides monitoring and management of the workload manager through the intuitive Bright Cluster Manager GUI.

Click here to learn more.

PBS Works Client Among Top Five Non-federally Funded University SC Sites

kcojo — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:10:14 +0000

PBS Works’ client, Clemson University, has grown to become one of the South’s premier universities offering advanced HPC resources. The South Carolina school is now among the top five non-federally funded University Supercomputing sites. Click here to read more.

PBS Professional Celebrates & Looks Out 20 Years on Scalability

kcojo — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:44:06 +0000

Rich Brueckner from InsideHPC interviews Bill Nitzberg, CTO of PBS Works at Altair, discussing PBS Professional’s 20th anniversary and outlook on scalability in the next 20 years. Click here to view on the PBS Works YouTube channel and become a subscriber.

Placement Sets: Ability to Define Groupings, Partitioning, & Topology

kcojo — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:08:32 +0000

Join the PBS Community Forum and read the short tutorial on PBS Professional’s placement set feature, which can be used for defining groupings, partitions, and topology of cluster. The tutorial will walk you through a simple example, as well.

Altair’s PBS Works releases PBS Professional 11.1

kcojo — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:09:25 +0000

With the launch of version 11.1, PBS Professional offers improved stability, improved security, and expanded platform support. It also features official support for new platforms including CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v6, and SGI Performance Suite v1.

Click here to request a quote or download a free trial.

French National Computer Center for Higher Education Upgrades to PBS Professional 11.0

kcojo — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:14:07 +0000

CINES, France’s National Computer Center for Higher Education, has upgraded to PBS Professional 11.0 to manage its national HPC system, known as JADE. PBS Professional 11.0 offers petaFLOPS scalability and more than 30 times faster cold start-up and seven times faster job submission than previous versions.

Click here to read more.

PBS Professional Celebrates 20 Years

kcojo — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:22:55 +0000

PBS Professional, Altair’s EAL3+ security certified commercial-grade high-performance computing (HPC) workload management solution, is celebrating its 20th anniversary on June 17. Please look for us at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany June 19-23 (booth #820)!

Click here to read more of our key highlights over the past 20 years.

Altair PBS Works featured in HPC Wire

kcojo — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:41:44 +0000

Bill Nitzberg, CTO of PBS Works at Altair, is currently featured on HPCWire.com, discussing his view on the new generation of smarter, not faster, supercomputers. Click here to read the full length story.

Jaryba and PBS Works New Partnership Pushes the Curve to Increase Grid, Cloud and Cluster Utilization

kcojo — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:41:32 +0000

Jaryba, Inc. and Altair Engineering, Inc. extend their capabilities of PBS Works’ PBS Professional® with Jaryba SmartSuspend™ to create a strategic technology partnership. This strategic technology partnership will focus on new and enhanced capabilities for greater grid, cloud and cluster utilization. SmartSuspend and PBS Professional currently integrated, have the ability through this partnership to build a closer relationship as new and enhanced features become available from both companies.

Click here to learn more.