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| PBS Professional 7.0SP1 by Altair Altair Engineering, Inc. has announced the release of PBS Professional 7.0SP1, the next generation of the company's PBS Professional technology. PBS Professional technology optimizes the utilization of enterprise computing resources by aggregating hardware and software assets, and intelligently scheduling computational workloads based on business policies. PBS Professional 7.0SP1 provides a number of major enhancements, including o Ease of use and scheduling enhancements for heterogeneous environments o Tight integration with Hewlett-Packard (HP) MPI libraries o Tight Integration with LAM-MPI 6.5.9 o PBS Professional port to Open Solaris on AMD Opteron processor- based platforms Customers who operate heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures comprised of SMP systems, clusters and hybrid systems can increase resource efficiencies and reduce job turnaround times with PBS Professional 7.0SP1. Engineers and scientists have more flexibility to easily specify where their jobs run (if they know their application runs best on a particular architecture type) or they can let PBS schedule the job onto the first available platform that meets their resource requirements. Not only does this feature increase ease of use, but it also increases the utilization of resources and reduces job turnaround times. Altair continues to tightly integrate PBS Professional with industry standard MPI libraries. In earlier releases, PBS Professional tightly integrated with LAM 7.0, MPICH and IBM POE. This time, PBS Professional tightly integrates with LAM-MPI 6.5.9 and HP's MPI libraries. The result is improved system resiliency under a variety of system failure modes, as well as enhanced accounting accuracy. Additionally, systems administrators are relieved of the need to create and maintain epilogue scripts to clean up after aborted MPI jobs. PBS Professional 7.0SP1 has been ported, tested and made generally available for the Solaris 10 operating system running on AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture. PBS Professional is an intelligent workload management and batch queuing solution for numerically intense compute environments. PBS Professional efficiently manages computational workloads across local and distributed Linux, UNIX and Windows-based HPC environments -- maximizing hardware and software utilization and job turnaround efficiency. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |