Altair Engineering, founded in 1985, provides HPC middleware and applications, serving over 60,000 users globally with a focus on optimizing HPC clusters and cloud resources through its PBS Pro software. The solution promotes efficient resource management, job scheduling, and real-time monitoring while supporting diverse integration with various applications across multiple industries. Altair's offerings, including power management and cloud bursting capabilities, are designed to enhance performance and reduce operational costs in high-performance computing environments.

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Altair's PBS Pro: Your Gateway to HPC Computing
Jochen Krebs • Director Enterprise Sales Central & Eastern Europe • Oct 2017

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2500+Engineers, scientists and creative thinkers
Founded 1985
Headquartered in Troy, MI US
60,000+Users
$313M
2016 Billings
5000+Customers globally
50+
ISV partners under our unique,
patented licensing model
67offices
in 23 countries
ALTAIR AT A GLANCE

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Altair is the Only Company That…
…makes HPC middleware:
…develops HPC applications:
…and uses these to do HPC every day:

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Software & Solutions For HPC
Clusters & Clouds
Optimize HPC clusters and
clouds: ensure policies,
maximize efficiency, deliver
resilience and security via job
scheduling and data
management
Admins & Managers
Control HPC resources and
provide 360o visibility and
agility: configure, deploy,
monitor, troubleshoot, report,
simulate, optimize
Engineers & Researchers
Access HPC resources
naturally (no IT expertise): run
solvers, view progress,
manage data, and use 3D
remote visualization

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Clouds
Clusters
PBS Works
Control AccessOptimize
PBS Pro
Engineers
&
Researchers
HPC
Admins

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PBS Professional: Optimize HPC
• Ubiquity: Open Source and commercial licensing
• Performant: faster time-to-results, better throughput and utilization
• Secure: EAL3+ security certification and MLS support
• Intelligent: policy-driven and topology-aware scheduling
• Scalable: proven to run millions of jobs per day
• Green Provisioning™: power management and control
• Robust: known in the industry for stability and support
• Open Architecture: implement virtually any new policy
Workload Management & Job Scheduling
PBS Pro schedules 250k+ cores for NASA
PBS Works chosen for Quriosity
EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION
OF EXPENSIVE HPC RESOURCES

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PBS Pro: Speed, Scale, Resilience & The “Whole” HPC World
• 5x more scalable
• Tested to 50,000 nodes
• Tested to 500 concurrent portal users
• 10x faster
• Both scheduling & analytics
• 10x smaller footprint
• Analytics memory & disk
• 100% health check framework
• Dual licensing: commercial & Open Source
PBSPro.org

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Topology-aware Scheduling
Inter-node & intra-node placement
Switches, clusters, and NUMA
All networks
Infiniband, Ethernet, custom
Dynamic (runtime changeable)
All topologies
Before After
Average
runtimes
~ 45%
Faster
** actual US Customer Reported Results
Faster, Predictable Performance and Better Utilization

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PBS Plugins (“Hooks”)
• Meet unique enterprise requirements
• Deliver site-specific and 3rd party integrations
• Support platform-specific features
on day 1
• Build novel extensions
• Crowdsource solutions
• Share (even sell) via PBS ecosystem
Say “Yes!” to unique requests
PBS
Plugin
Plugin
Framework for Agility and Innovation

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PBS Pro®
Dual-licensing
Commercial
The HPC World
Public Sector
Risk takers
Early adopters
Natural collaborators
Open Source
Risk avoiders
Later adopters
Natural competitors
Private Sector

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HPC Cloud & Exascale Ecosystems
Exascale
Cloud
Computing
Power
Management
Big Data
GPUs &
Xeon Phi
Open Source

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Ecosystem: Containers
• Cgroups
• Limit, account, isolate resource use
• CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, etc.
• Enforced by PBS Pro based on allocated resources
• Docker & nvidia-docker
• Specify and run inside containers
• PBS hook-based implementation
• Big issue: security model grants root access (inside
containers)
• Singularity
• Newer container system (so not as mature)
• No security issue, as container runs as user
• Compatibility with Docker containers (via import)
• No PBS config needed – “just works”.
nvidia-docker
cgroups

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Power Management - Real Life Test Results
Customer has tested power capping per
Computer node level
Testing was done with Harmonie 1.5km
resolution job.
Harmonie is a very CPU power and
memory throughput demanding application.
During a job run all Node CPUs cores
(2*14c) nearly all the time were performing
at 100% load.
Job was run on 36*Compute nodes (1008c,
72*E5-2680v4 2.4GHz 14c, 128GB RAM
per node).
Job was repeated few times with each
specific power cap and an average result
was fixed.
Green Provisioning™
Results:
1/ Without power cap -> walltime ~885s, power consumption per
job run ~ 2,05kW
2/ Power cap 220W -> walltime increase ~2%, power consumption
decrease per job run by 10%
3/ Power cap 200W -> walltime increase ~3%, power consumption
decrease per job run by 17%.
=> Seems to be an optimal option.
4/ Power cap 180W -> walltime increase ~8%, power consumption
decrease per job run by 20%
5/ Power cap 160W -> walltime increase ~28%, power consumption
decrease per job run by 17%

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PBS Works: Access HPC
• Novice to Expert: simple and powerful
• Same UX: desktop, web, and mobile
• Secure: protected access to HPC resources
• End-to-end: submit, monitor progress, steer,
fix, and rerun jobs
• Collaborate: shared 3D analysis
• 3D Remote Visualization
PORTAL FOR ENGINEERS & RESEARCHERS
Gateway to collaborative innovation

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Simplify HPC services – no IT degree needed
Compute Manager
Run | Monitor | Manage
• Single “pane of glass” for HPC work
(zero client install – browser only)
• Drag-and-drop input decks to submit HPC work (custom options auto-
populate)
• Watch progress & view intermediate results
while jobs are running
• Post-process and visualize remote results
(e.g., graph energies) without moving files
• Even fix inputs “in place” and re-run
(without re-uploading big input files)
• Secure, unified access, anywhere… anytime
“Compute Manager is a key
enhancement to our PBS Works
environment.”
– Tower International

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Key Application Integrations (by industry)
Life & Chemical Sciences Energy / Oil & Gas Manufacturing And many
more
Amber
LAMMPS
NAMD
CFX
Permas
NONMEM
OpenFOAM
• PBS Works products are integrated with the most popular and widely used software across all
vertical industries
• Hundreds of commercial, open source and proprietary code integrations

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Visualize your datasets for rapid collaboration and innovation
Display Manager
Visualize | Access | Collaborate
“Display Manager is our most significant
functionality update since the move to HPC
itself. In most cases we are saving a full day
of time or more.”
– PING Golf
• Avoid commute and keep data near your compute! (consolidate
hardware and software resources)
• A secure and traceable way to access IP
• Easy and accessible collaboration tools
for globalized infrastructure
• Reduces software maintenance and deployment costs
• Instantaneous application invocation
• Flexible application resource allocation
• Allows for instant collaboration on big data through a simple interface,
anywhere & anytime

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PBS Works: Control HPC
• Single pane of glass: single command center
• Real-time monitoring: simplify troubleshooting and maintenance
• Reporting: PBS Analytics powered by Carriots Analytics™
• Workload simulator: simulate and optimize infrastructure sizing
• Multi-cloud bursting: burst to any cloud for peak loads
• One-click appliance deployment: effortless for public, hybrid, and private clouds
• Modern UX: drag-and-drop simplicity
Manage HPC Clusters & Cloud Appliances
Altair’s own CAE Appliances
HyperWorks Unlimited
HPC ADMINISTRATORS’ CONTROL CENTER FOR MANAGING,
OPTIMIZING AND FORECASTING HPC RESOURCES

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PBScloud.io (SaaS offering)
• Graphical IDE: easily create HPC appliances
• Easy deployment: create once and deploy in minutes
• Multi-cloud: deploy complete appliance everywhere
• Security: customize security polices and role-based access control
• Intelligent management: appliance lifecycle management (CRUD)
• Control expenditure: quotas to optimize consumption
Democratizing HPC by providing fully configured HPC Appliances in multi-cloud environments
Democratizing HPC by providing fully configured HPC Appliance on multi clouds
A SOFTWARE-AS-SERVICE TO MODEL, CREATE, DEPLOY,
MANAGE & MONITOR HPC APPLIANCES ON MULTIPLE CLOUDS
Learn more at: pbscloud.io

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PBS Works: Cloud Bursting
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
…
PBS Works
On-demand use of
cloud resources to
maximize efficiency

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• Video Cloud

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HP Insight CMU + PBS Professional:
The Connector enables: So Users/Admins can:
Automation of common admin tasks Do their jobs faster and easier
Dynamic OS provisioning Trust that all existing OS images are being comprehended by PBS
for scheduling
Dynamic node group creation Visualize utilization and performance of jobs on nodes
Integrated PBS menus Easily register nodes, online/offline (or “drain”) nodes, perform OS
provisioning, delete jobs and much more
Automatic network topology configuration Optimize job placement
Maintenance mode for nodes Move 'bad' nodes into maintenance mode for troubleshooting
without competing with users’ jobs
One-click access to online resources Quickly and easily access PBS Professional documentation, user
forums and support

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Reimagined User Experience

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PBS Analytics
Accounting & Analytics Portal for HPC
Visualize historical usage for optimized returns on HPC investments
• Allocate costs & plan for future capacity needs
• Visualize workload & historical usage
• Easily drill down to underlying data
• Filter by project, app, user, group, queue, host, …
• Canned reports out-of-the-box, and customize your own
• Aggregate data from multiple PBS Professional servers
• Analyze historical data as far back as PBS Pro 5.3
• Slideshow mode for continuous display (in lobby)
• Export to customer billing system
“Maximizing our license utilization
means we don't have to buy a
new license, set up another
workstation, and hire another
engineer to keep up with demand.”
– Trelleborg
View | Report | Forecast

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Example: Users Request Too Much Memory…
Users are asking for more memory than needed.
This could have caused some jobs to wait unnecessarily…

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PBS Works: Configuration
PBS Works: Analytics
Simulator
Solver
PBS Pro
Scheduler
Core
PBS Snapshot
•
• Policies
• Infrastructure
• Workload
PBS
Snapshot
Simulator Architecture

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Why PBS Works?
Save Money Save Time
Gain Peace of Mind Ensure User & Admin Satisfaction
Scale Up
“Tens of millions of dollars
in upfront savings.”
–Lockheed Martin
“We are saving a full day
of time or more.”
–PING Golf
“Admin overhead is reduced
significantly.”
–IT4I
“Altair… drew on their engineering expertise
to make creative suggestions.
They are problem solvers.”
–GE Oil & Gas
“We’ll be running orders of magnitude more
cores than in the past….PBS will play a
central role in enabling us to do that well.”
–Chrysler