Integrated grid portal for MCAE environments

Altair's CAE web portal e-Compute has been developed and integrated with CAE applications to allow engineers access to HPC resources from any where in the world via the internet.

e-Compute makes engineers more productive by providing a an intuitive graphical interface consistent browser interface to complex computing infrastructures.

e-Compute is a flexible open framework integrated with all popular MCAE solvers to enable automated processes and reduce administrative costs.

The combination of e-Compute, PBS Professional, and MCAE solvers provides an efficient, highly integrated working environment for engineering design and analysis.

e-Compute increases productivity
by tightly integrating solvers and compute resources.

The Altair e-Compute Web Portal makes engineers more productive by providing the following:

• Allows HPC resources to be accessed from anywhere in the world
• An intuitive job submission and management interface
• Users can submit jobs more quickly my minimizing submission steps
• Helps users submit jobs more accurately by not requesting conflicting resources
• Job progress and results data viewed through browser viewable from web browser
• e-Compute provides the following benefits for administrators
• No client software must be added to local nodes
• Central management and control over HPC system
• Open architecture for individual client sites (tool-kit)
• Helps to remove complexity for end users by providing an intuitive interface
  

e-Compute adds powerful functionality to HPC sites

Key Features

• Secure Intranet, VPN or Internet access to HPC resources
  
• Simple menu-driven job submission and monitoring
  
• The ability to create custom profiles for power users
  
• Pre-existing integrations with all popular MCAE solvers
  
• Support for Windows, UNIX, NIS and LDAP authentication mechanisms
  
• File conversions for mixed Windows/Unix environments

e-Compute supported platforms:

Any user may submit and manage analysis work via e-Compute by using one of the supported browsers.

The e-Compute back end server components (ec_web and ec_daemon) are supported on the following computer systems:


Desktop Systems & PCs

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 on x86 + Sun JSDK 1.4.2_06 for x86 + FirebirdSS-1.0.3.972-0.64IO.i386.rpm
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 on AMD64 (Opteron) + Sun JSDK 1.4.2_06 for x86 +
  FirebirdSS-1.0.3.972-0.64IO.i386.rpm
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 on x86 + Sun JSDK 1.4.2_06 for x86 + FirebirdSS-1.0.3.972-0.64IO.i386.rpm
  
• SuSE 9.1 on AMD64 (Opteron) + Sun JSDK 1.4.2_06 for x86
  + FirebirdSS-1.0.3.972-0.64IO.i386.rpm
  

Workstations, Servers, & Supercomputers

• HP-UX 11.0 on PA-RISC + HP sdk14_14200_1100 + FirebirdCS-1.0.3.972-1.HP1020.tar.gz
  
• IBM AIX 5.1 on POWER architectures + IBM JSDK 1.3.1 + FirebirdCS-1.0.3.AIX.tar.gz
  
• IBM AIX 5.2 on POWER architectures + IBM JSDK 1.4.1 + FirebirdCS-1.0.3.AIX.tar.gz
  
• IBM AIX 5.3 on POWER architectures + IBM JSDK 1.4.2 + FirebirdCS-1.0.3.AIX.tar.gz
  
• Sun Solaris 7 or later on SPARC + Sun JSDK j2sdk-1_4_2_06_sparc + FirebirdCS-1.0.3.972-0.Solaris-Sparc.tar.gz
  
• SGI Altix running ProPack 4 + Sun JSDK 64-bit 1.4.2_04 + FirebirdSS-1.0.3.972-0.64IO.i386.rpm

Windows is currently not a supported platform for the back-end/server components of e-compute.

Please contact sales if you have a question about a system not listed above.