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Huawei to Resell Altair PBS Works™ for High-Performance Computing

Altair PBS Works™ workload management solution to be bundled with Huawei servers through global value-added reseller agreement

June 24, 2018 — 
Altair (Nasdaq:ALTR) has signed a global VAR agreement with Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider to market and sell Altair’s PBS Works. The agreement allows Huawei to market and sell Altair PBS Works™, a highly scalable, robust and supported workload management solution for secure high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud bursting. PBS Works will be bundled with all new Huawei branded HPC systems. This joint offering will offer HPC users a superior workload management solution for their on-premises infrastructure and allow them to seamlessly burst to the Huawei cloud for their peak computing needs.

“Working with Altair is important to Huawei in the HPC field. Huawei and Altair cooperate to provide customers with more innovative solutions,” said Qiu Long, President, IT Server Product Line, Huawei. “With Huawei HPC and Altair PBS Works suite, we can provide a powerful simulation platform for manufacturing, energy, environmental science, life sciences, astrophysics, material science, chemistry and other industries.”

“We are delighted to strengthen our relationship with Huawei,” said Sam Mahalingam, Chief Technical Officer for Enterprise Solutions at Altair. “With the complete PBS Works suite as its preferred integrated workload management solution, Huawei will be able to provide its customers with a powerful toolset to meet their growing HPC needs with a new, reinvented cloud HPC experience.

PBS Works 2018 suite includes PBS Professional®, Altair’s industry-leading workload manager and job scheduler, along with PBS Access, a portal which gives users intuitive access to HPC resources, and lets them run & manage jobs, and use remote visualization. The suite also includes PBS Control, an indispensable solution for administrators to manage and optimize HPC infrastructures with seamless cloud-bursting capabilities.

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