Optimizing ROI by Enabling You
to KEEP TRACK AND PLAN Continuous Improvements

GridWorks Analytics is a web-based portal for visualizing HPC usage data, empowering IT professionals to make informed decisions for project planning, capacity management, and ROI optimization of computing assets. Detailed historical data can be sorted, filtered, graphed, and exported for accounting and chargeback. Further, logs from multiple PBS Professional servers can be aggregated into a single, coherent database, allowing a unified view into your entire enterprise¡¯s historical usage patterns.

• Web-based drag-and-drop portal
• Modern graphs (lines, bars, pies, columns,...)
• Individually customizable dashboards
• Publish via web and export to Excel
• Separate access rights for users, managers, and administrators
• Historical data back as far as PBS Professional 5.3.x
• Turn-key setup from download to display
  

Monitor and control today's costs;
plan future infrastructure growth

EASY TO USE

• Build custom dashboards for enterprise stakeholders
• Web interface allows access to critical reports from anywhere, anytime
• Secure, role-based access: users view only their own data; managers view group data
• Designed for turn-key installation and setup "out of the box"

DO MORE WITH LESS

• Leverages Altair's patented, pay-for-what-you-use, floating, per-user licensing - Gridworks Units are the same tokens used with PBS Professional and other Altair products

KEEP TRACK AND PLAN

• Visualize HPC data and generate reports automatically
• Understand usage trends for capacity planning
• Verify project planning assumptions and rebalance resources to meet deadlines
• Extract detailed accounting data for chargeback
• Track software license use to optimize ROI

OPEN ARCHITECTURE

• Plugs-in to all major enterprise infrastructure

Customized IT usage graphs delivered via your intranet web.

EASY TO USE

• Modern drag-and-drop Web 2.0 technology
• Common reports delivered "out of the box"
• Every user can customize, save, and share their own unique dashboards
• Display side-by-side graphs for easy comparisons

KEEP TRACK AND PLAN

• Dynamically generate and present reports against any PBS Professional accounting information
• Graph frequency distribution, historical average, and totals/counts
• Display charts as line, pie, bar, column, etc.
• Click to drill down and expose underlying data
• Visualize and graph historical data by
  • Times: chronological, fixed time period, day, week, month, quarter, year
  • Consumers: users, groups, queues, software, architecture
• Aggregates accounting data from multiple PBS Professional servers
• Supports accounting logs as far back as version 5.3.x

OPEN ARCHITECTURE

• Directly export to Excel (CSV) and PDF
• Supports authentication via LDAP and NIS (PAM)
• Designed to support all major enterprise application servers and databases

GridWorks Analytics is supported on the following computer systems

GridWorks Analytics consists of three components: (a) a browser-based, client-side, user interface, (b) a set of web services, and (c) one or more data importers that parse, cleanse, and import data into the Analytics database.

The client-side user interface supports the following web browsers:

• Internet Explorer 7
• Firefox 2.x and 3.x

The web services are supported on the following platforms:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 on x86 and x86_64
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 on x86 and x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 on x86 and x86_64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10 on x86 and x86_64
  

The data importer is supported on all platforms where the current PBS Professional Server is supported, except for the non-enterprise versions of Linux. Importing data from the following sources is supported:

• PBS Pro 5.3.x through PBS Professional 10.x accounting logs