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Compute Manager
11.1 Highlights
• Managing Remote Files:
Real time access to the remote
file system of the PBS Professional
cluster.
• Results Visualization Service:
Advanced job monitoring capability
through inspecting and visualizing
data from the solver log files,
allowing visualization of animation
and plot data for running and
completed jobs.
• Access Management Service:
A centralized configuration system
for defining users and their groups,
allowing users to share application
profiles with specific users and/
or groups.
Compute Manager
Run, Monitor and Manage Workloads and Results on Distributed Resources
Altair® offers a novel set of software modules, making the
management of simulation data a natural and enjoyable experience.
The integration of Altair's HyperWorks® simulation tools with PBS
Works™ workload management solutions increases high-performance
computing productivity, providing users with a reliable and affordable
enterprise simulation platform.
Altair Knows HPC
A modern Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA) platform, Altair Compute ManagerTM,
coupled with the market leading HPC
workload management and job scheduling
solution, PBS Professional®, constitutes
the foundation of Altair's HPC offering.
Users First
Altair offers the most natural way to
organize, automate and manage the
contents used throughout the simulation
life cycle. Users work in an extremely
intuitive and user-friendly web-based
interface, supported by a commercialgrade infrastructure.
Data Freshness
With Altair's enterprise solutions, users
can immediately begin managing their
personal data or collaborating in small
teams, without the overhead typical of
enterprise data management and PLM
systems deployment time and cost have
also been reduced to a minimum, making
the process effortless for both users and
IT management.
Human Centric
Altair's HPC management tools provide
users with an enjoyable data and process
management experience, employing
software and hardware resources to
streamline complex analysis with
a few mouse clicks.
Affordable Enterprise
The innovative HyperWorks licensing
model makes simulation data management
extremely affordable, providing a de facto
free-of-charge solution that enables users
to work in a collaborative environment
within minutes, with minimal setup or
configuration required.
Compute Manager
Altair's Compute Manager makes simulation
workload management easy. With Compute
Manager, users can:
• S
et up simulation jobs on distributed
resources with easily configurable
applications definitions
HyperWorks and PBS Works are divisions of
• M
onitor workloads on distributed
resources, both graphically and analytically
• Manage
simulation jobs, visualizing data
and results remotely
• E
nable secure and immediate access to
distributed resources from virtually any
Internet-enabled device
RUN
MONITOR
Intuitive Drag and Drop
Interface for Jobs Submission
Benefits
Compute Manager is a web-based portal
that is application aware. This means that
end-users only have to concern themselves
with the data and applications they wish to run.
It's an ideal solution for customers who:
• Want a simple but powerful Web-based
interface for submitting and monitoring
jobs in PBS Professional queues
• N
eed to browse & modify remote files and
would like to minimize the effort needed
to write, modify and test complex
application scripts
• W
ant to automate job submission tasks
to maximize end-user productivity while
optimizing resource availability
• R
equire a consistent job submission
and monitoring interface
• D
esire automated staging of input and
output files
• S
eek to diagnose remote jobs without
downloading huge results files
Capabilities
Compute Manager offers a complete set
of capabilities for both users and system
managers to configure and maintain the
environment settings.
Submitting Jobs
• Submit jobs via PBS Professional using
PBS Application Services (PAS)
• Use PAS Application Definition technology
to easily define applications for job
submission
Monitor Current Jobs with
Filtering and Grouping Capabilities
• Save commonly used application and
application inputs as profiles
Monitoring Jobs
• List a nearly real-time display of all
currently running jobs
• F
ilter and group jobs easily to better
clarify the monitoring output
• V
iew/edit job output files either
prior to job submission or during job
execution (runtime)
Managing Remote Files
• Real time access to the remote file
system of the PBS Professional cluster
• Providing the standard file operation tools
you're accustomed to with your desktop
file manager
MANAGE
3D Animations and 2D Plots to Review
and Visualize Results on the Server
Access Management Service
(A centralized configuration system for
defining users and their groups)
• Specify which users and/or groups can
use certain applications
• S
hare application profiles with specific
users and/or groups
Installation & Deployment
Altair recognizes the importance of making
HPC systems easy to deploy, configure
and use. As a result, Compute Manager
is offered as out-of-the-box product with
minimal configuration required.
Reviewing Results
Additionally, Altair’s Enterprise Solutions
Group offers professional services to ensure
fast and efficient deployment, customized
to your global business processes. Services
span from basic installation on clients and/
or servers to the complete setup of a turnkey HPC private cloud solution.
Results Visualization Service
(An extension to Compute Manager)
Supported Platforms
• P
rovides advanced job monitoring
capability through inspecting and
visualizing data from the solver log files
• Operating Systems (Server)
– Windows 64bit
– Windows Server 2008
– Windows Server 2008 R2
– Linux 64bit
– SLES 10/11
– RHEL 5/6
– CentOS 5
• Easily drag and drop project files onto
applications for fast job submission
• Allows visualization of animation and
plot data for running and completed jobs
through the CM file viewer
• Provides ability to remotely execute/
save result templates for extracting and
visualizing key results from huge result
files
• Supported Browsers (Clients)
– Windows: Firefox, Chrome and
Internet Explorer
– Linux: Firefox, Chrome
– Mac OSX: Safari
For more information about Compute Manager,
visit www.pbsworks.com to request a quote or view a demo.
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1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083-2031 USA
Phone: +1.248.614.2400 • Fax: +1.248.614.2411
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