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HPCWorks 2026.1

The #1 HPC and cloud portfolio for any challenge, anywhere

HPCWorks™ software is the only complete high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud portfolio that addresses every dimension of HPC in any industry. By harnessing artificial intelligence (AI), cloud scaling and advanced monitoring, HPCWorks streamlines HPC administration and enables unparalleled discovery. The latest release delivers new features and improvements including enhanced user access, flow-tracing user experience, container and accelerator support, HPC monitoring and reporting, license analytics, cloud integration, resilience and security.

From AI to Quantum, any scale, anywhere

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Powerful AI and GPU Integration

Siemens solutions are designed with AI workloads in mind, with broad support for GPUs and Kubernetes. HPCWorks streamlines the complexities AI brings to supercomputing clusters without additional costs, and the newest release includes enhanced GPU scheduling, automatic GPU count management and extended support for Docker containers. Because GPU-accelerated computing is essential for data-intensive workloads, Siemens tools are tailored to efficiently support GPU discovery and optimization. HPCWorks supports NVIDIA, AMD and Intel accelerators and gives IT administrators fast GPU integration and extended reporting.

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Agentic HPC

Smart AI tools make it easier for users to get fast results without needing deep IT or scheduling expertise. Agentic HPC uses AI to automate tasks and get answers faster, using intelligent scheduling and memory selection to optimize workloads. HPCWorks uses AI-powered memory resource prediction to streamline job submission and optimize resource utilization for clusters, clouds and hybrid computing environments. An AI assistant helps users estimate job resources, improving cluster utilization and reducing wait times by 10-15% on average. Integration with solutions such as Rapidminer™ enables the creation of custom AI models trained for specific workloads.

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Hybrid classical and quantum computing

The quantum frontier promises to dramatically accelerate processing and push technological development to a new level. While quantum computing still faces significant hurdles, it’s already being used alongside classical HPC; both technologies excel at different types of challenges, and hybrid classical-quantum workflows show promise for science, engineering and financial applications. Hybrid quantum-classical computing can improve the operational efficiency of rare-event detection processes, with significant growth potential as quantum capabilities and scale improve. HPCWorks enables efficient execution of novel hybrid quantum-classical workflows that can detect complex, rapidly changing patterns, such as fraudulent credit card transactions.

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HPCWorks 2026.1 highlights

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GPU-enhanced workload management

With today’s data-intensive AI and mixed workloads, workload managers need to be fast, smart and equipped to handle mountains of data and widely distributed resources. They also need to incorporate GPU and Kubernetes support alongside traditional HPC scheduling tools. The HPCWorks PBS Professional™ 2026.1 workload manager gets a boost with GPU scheduling enhancements and automatic GPU count management, plus enhanced diagnostic data collection for GPUs and containers, so users can easily deploy and run applications and speed up AI and machine learning training.

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Optimized cloud HPC and AI factories

Cloud and hybrid cloud computing are attractive alternatives to owning and maintaining an expensive HPC data center. With growing computational demand and the prevalence of data-intensive AI workloads, computing in the cloud and in AI factories — specialized data centers that deliver AI as a service — is becoming a widely accepted norm. HPCWorks enables the AI factory by employing HPCWorks Navops™ software for cost-efficient hybrid scaling and cloud spend control. Version 2026.1 features enhanced integration with HPCWorks Accelerator software for fast EDA job scheduling, deep integration with HPCWorks PBS Professional and HPCWorks Grid Engine job metadata to align cloud resources with site-specific workloads, active management of preempted instances when using spot/preemptable instances, and cost reporting improvements with custom instance prices to make it easier than ever for users to manage and optimize cloud spending.

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Comprehensive cluster visibility

In a data-driven world, HPC administrators need insight to make informed decisions. HPCWorks Insight Pro™ software is a visualization cockpit that helps organizations monitor their cluster strategies. It provides users with comprehensive visibility into their HPC clusters and integrates with Siemens tools for advanced data analytics and AI-powered insights. New capabilities include additional support for all Siemens workload managers, real-time monitoring and visualization of custom data sources, and effective GPU utilization metrics derived from accounting records, enabling users to understand actual per-job resource usage and use that insight to optimize overall HPC environment performance.

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Enterprise-wide license analytics and reporting

Organizations can optimize budgets and get the most from software assets with HPCWorks Insight Pro for License Analytics™ software, a comprehensive license and software usage analytics solution that delivers real-time insight, advanced license optimization and lightning-fast performance. HPCWorks Insight Pro for License Analytics tracks software licensing across the entire computing environment, whether a team is together in a single location or part of a globally distributed organization. The 2026.1 release includes license-aware scheduling for HPCWorks PBS Professional, trend-report granularity selection to drill down in increments from five minutes to several months, improvements to the organizational hierarchy, and Smart Agent enhancements with nightly archiving to reduce long-term data storage and avoid data loss during network or infrastructure outages.

EDA and semiconductor design solutions

Semiconductor design leaders rely on electronic design automation (EDA) — and HPCWorks semiconductor design solutions are built to optimize EDA designs and reduce time to market. Users can visualize and analyze complex flows and optimize compute resources with HPCWorks Flowtracer™ software, now with 2026.1 web UI improvements. The HPCWorks Accelerator enterprise job scheduler maximizes capacity utilization and can run millions of semiconductor design jobs per day with sub-millisecond latency. The 2026.1 release includes improvements for REST job submission and added support for RHEL 10 and family. HPCWorks Hero™ emulation scheduling software now supports the leading Veloce™ CS hardware, software and system validation platform for integrated design emulation.

Easy user access – no IT expertise required

Engineers and researchers need to focus on their core work, not on learning how to use specialized software. HPCWorks Access™ software provides a simple, powerful, consistent user interface for submitting and monitoring jobs on remote clusters, clouds and other resources. Users can view job status from anywhere, on any device, and collaborate easily from multiple locations. The latest release includes security improvements, additional platform integrations, and an enhanced user experience with job-status messaging improvements that help users in day-to-day operations and reduce the need to call support. It also delivers container-based notebook support — including support for Jupyter Notebook and RStudio — and job ID display in desktop sessions for easier debugging and tracing.

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HPCWorks 2026.1 product releases and updates

Workload management

The industry-leading HPCWorks PBS Professional workload manager gets a boost with GPU scheduling enhancements and automatic GPU count management, plus enhanced diagnostic data collection for GPUs and containers. More updates for the 2026.1 release include Windows and RHEL 10 support, K3s and RKE2 support for Kubernetes Connector, and support for Kubernetes Connector on Arm architecture. Resiliency improvements include resource-scheduling limits, elimination of memory leaks, job container cleanup, and cgroups multithreading integration and job preemption by suspension. AI and machine learning workloads benefit from tighter integration with tmrsh, multi-node Docker jobs and tmrsh/pbsdsh for container jobs.

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HPCWorks Accelerator is a high-throughput, enterprise-grade job scheduler designed to meet the complex demands of semiconductor design, EDA and HPC. The 2026.1 version builds on the previous release and adds support for RHEL 10 and family, a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) policy plugin for REST job submission, and proportional set size (PSS) job memory usage calculation using smaps_rollup.

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HPCWorks Grid Engine optimizes distributed workloads and resources in thousands of data centers. Improvements in HPCWorks Grid Engine 2026.1 include full support for Docker Engine v29, Docker image configuration to prevent timeouts and job-start failures with large non-locally installed containers, and the ability to download Docker images from repositories using non-standard ports. Assigned NVIDIA, AMD and Intel accelerator cards areautomatically mounted into job containers for easy Docker job integration and simplified job submission for end users. The GraphQL API has been upgraded to support OIDC providers using different JWT fields for the username (now configurable), and HPCWorks Grid Engine can be installed on systems with SELinux in enforcing/targeted mode.

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HPCWorks Hero is an end-to-end solution designed specifically for hardware emulation environments. The latest release supports the leading Veloce CS hardware, software and system validation platform for integrated design emulation.

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Workload and workflow visualization

HPCWorks Access provides a simple, powerful, consistent user interface for submitting and monitoring jobs on remote clusters, clouds and other resources. The latest user-experience enhancements include improved job-status monitoring and reporting to clearly distinguish between various terminal and intermediate states, and extended support for container-based notebooks such as Jupyter Notebook and Visual Studio Code. We’ve resolved hotkey and keyboard shortcut issues with third-party applications, added job ID display in desktop sessions for easier debugging and tracing, and upgraded security, compliance and platform integrations.

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HPCWorks Flowtracer enables advanced design flow visualization, development and execution. Its declarative flow description notation (FDN) allows methodologies to construct complex flows using various languages and generate flow descriptions by leveraging existing JSON export and REST library calls. The 2026.1 release delivers an upgraded UI that lets users edit flow-graph files in vim mode, view input/output subtabs in the node editor and add pre- and post-steps in custom actions.

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Hybrid and cloud computing

HPCWorks Navops enables global operations with optimized, cost-efficient HPC in the cloud. New features in version 2026.1 include enhanced integration with HPCWorks Accelerator, giving users a consistent experience, broad metadata, a tunable pipeline, granular control with detailed job filtering, and the ability to precisely manage and scale workloads. It also delivers detailed job filtering and a tunable pipeline and custom resources for HPCWorks PBS Professional and HPCWorks Grid Engine, and it eliminates the need to rely on complex GQL or hooks for advanced scenarios. More HPCWorks Navops updates include improved timeout handling, additional control over instance and availability zone (AZ) selection for optimal resource provisioning, active management of preempted instances when using spot/preemptable instances, and custom instance prices so users can easily see true costs and optimize cloud spending.

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License management

HPCWorks Insight Pro for License Analytics delivers comprehensive, enterprise-wide license analytics and reporting. The 2026.1 release includes license-aware scheduling that supports HPCWorks PBS Professional in addition to HPCWorks Accelerator. It improves TRIAD license monitoring and reporting, enables vendor and feature alias naming via CSV file upload, allows local filtering for tabular reports, and adds a time-granularity selector to trend reports such as License Usage. User information and organizational hierarchy are easier to access, and Smart Agent improvements reduce long-term data storage by archiving nightly to the server.

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HPC administration

HPCWorks Insight Pro gives users comprehensive visibility into their HPC clusters. Updates for version 2026.1 include real-time monitoring via CLI for HPCWorks PBS Professional and HPCWorks Grid Engine, performance optimization via effective GPU utilization metrics derived from workload manager accounting records, and the option to include custom data-source information in the HPCWorks Insight Pro stack for visualization.

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HPCWorks Breeze enables users to quickly resolve software deployment issues and identify file and network dependencies, with detailed data for storage exports and summary reports for sharing. The latest release includes the ability to split I/O summary data by mount point, enabling users to easily identify the source of slow I/O or excessive operations without leaving the I/O summary.

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