Exascale. The next big thing. A computing system capable of a quintillion calculations per second. And Altair is at the forefront, exploring the next level of high-performance computing(HPC). With the advent of the exascale era, every day we’re pioneering tools that scale, running on next-generation systems and supporting increasingly complex HPC requirements in areas like machine learning, deep learning, and multiphysics.
Powerful computing hardware requires powerful software tools, and with exascale it’s more critical than ever to manage workloads efficiently.Altair® PBS Professional®orchestrates it all with automated job scheduling, management, monitoring, and reporting.
We’ve partnered with Argonne National Laboratory in support of exploring exascale with the HPE-designed Aurora system. And that’s just the start. With the advent of the exascale era, we’re pioneering tools that scale, getting them ready to run on next-generation systems and support increasingly complex HPC requirements in areas like machine learning, deep learning, and multiphysics. Supercomputers are critical to the future and we’re helping shape the U.S. exascale ecosystem as a member of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Industry Council. We are honored to collaborate, more realistically simulating the processes in precision medicine, additive manufacturing, biofuels, and much more.
Getting to exascale demands speed and scale to handle millions of operations. It requires extreme resilience and continuous fault recovery. Running an exascale-class system takes significant power, so power management is critical. So is a good user experience. We’ve considered all this and more on our road to exascale and beyond, which includes:
Altair® PBS Professional® runs big — 50,000 nodes in one cluster, 10,000,000 jobs in a queue, and 1,000 concurrent active users. It runs fast — 10,000,000 jobs per hour end-to-end throughput and 10-second end-to-end run for a single 4,000+ node job. Some of the biggest computing systems in the world use PBS Professional for efficient workload management, including those leading the race to exascale. Exascale will have widespread implications in industries from manufacturing to personalized medicine, allowing users to stay at the forefront of innovation.