Efficient, time-tested, SOA based HPC workload management

PBS Professional is a service orientated architecture, field-proven grid infrastructure software that increases productivity even in the most complex computing environments.

Resource managers and administrators at more than 1400 sites worldwide use PBS Professional to simplify job submission, enabling scientists, designers, financial analyst and engineers to remain focused on their fields of expertise. It efficiently distributes workloads across cluster, SMP, and hybrid configurations, scaling easily to hundreds or even thousands of processors.

In an era of shrinking budgets, PBS Professional enables administrators to get maximum value from computing resources through greater availability and utilization.

Altair Engineering supports PBS Professional globally at the local level.

Enabling On-Demand Computing

Putting PBS Professional to work can dramatically improve the productivity and time-to-solution of HPC environments through increased 24/7 availability of computing resources.

PBS Professional reduces costs by maximizing the utilization of hardware and using software licenses more effectively. It reduces system administration costs by simplifying user access and providing more precise usage reports. Annual licenses that include support cost $13.50 per core in North America.

A mature partner ecosystem makes PBS Professional easy to deploy and integrate seamlessly. It operates on all major hardware platforms and is tightly integrated with popular MPI libraries, widely used software applications, and complementary middleware solutions.

PBS Professional builds productivity with powerful features.

Robust, flexible workload management

• Industry-leading scalability with advanced, flexible queues
  
• Management and execution of many jobs as a single array
  
• A consistent interface across all platforms

Scheduling choices for better workflow and utilization

• Resource-based scheduling
  
• Maximized utilization of solver licenses and hardware
  
• Pre-emptive scheduling for instant launching of critical jobs
  
• Fair-share scheduling and support for advanced reservations

Industrial-grade reliability, availability and serviceability

• Server software failover for 24x7 availability of services
  
• Automatic detection of systems failures
  
• Automatic rescheduling of disrupted jobs

PBS Professional is supported on the following computer Systems:

• HP-UX 11.x on Itanium2
  
  
• IBM AIX 5.X, 6.X on POWER architectures
  
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.X and 5.X (AS, ES, WS) on x86, AMD64, EM64T, Itanium2
  
  
• SGI Altix with SGI Propack 4.X, 5.X
  
• SGI Altix XE/ICE with SGI Propack 5.X
  
  
• Sun Solaris 8.X, 9.X and 10.X on SPARC
  
• Sun Solaris 10.X on AMD64
  
  
• SuSE 9.X and 10.X on x86, AMD64, EM64T, Itanium2
  
  
• SuSE SLES 9.X and 10.X on x86, AMD64, EM64T, Itanium2, PowerPC
  
  
• Windows XP Professional, SP1 and later, on x86
  
• Windows Server 2003 on x86