PBSWorksOverview.ppt

Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved.

Paolo Masera

BDM PBS Works South EMEA, Altair Engineering.

HPC Forum @ EPFL , October 8’9, 2009

PBS Works 10.1


Altair Technology Update - AGENDA

•Altair Engineering : our backgroud

•Altair HPC vision

•PBS Works suite description

•PBS Professional update

•PBS Catalyst

•PBS Analytics


1985

1,300 Employees

22% CAGR over 15 years

$100M

2009

Altair Engineering : our backgroud

1980-90’s – NASAPBS for parallel computers

MPI-2 I/O editorNASA Metacenter: one big computer

Whitney Cluster projectGrid Forum, founder & director

2000-10’s – AltairCommercialized PBS Professional

NASA’s Information Power GridPBS runs on all 7 continents!

Open Grid Forum board memberPBS GridWorks suite


Altair HPC vision : increase productivity

Easy to use

• Vertical portals •SaaS Gateway (well-defined interfaces)

Reduce risk

•Assure business continuity

Assure business continuity despite failures


Altair HPC vision : maximize value

Resource Optimization

CPUs Running

Job

Job 2

Job 1

Job 3

Time

CPUs

Running

Job

Job 2

Job 1

Job 3

Time

Job 5

Job 6

•Cloud Computing enabler

•Business policy

•Optimize use


Altair HPC vision : Analytics tools to optimize ROI

Keep under control hardware and software utilization

• Analytics tools

•Turn raw license utilization data into business relevant information

Open architecture to gain agility


PBS Works - Products (NEW)

e-Computee-BioChem

e-Render

PBS Catalyst

GreenProvisioning

PBS AnalyticsApplication

Service


Commercial-grade workload and resource management


What is PBS Professional ?

Workload Management Software

Middleware for maximizing compute resource efficiency

high-performance computing (HPC) resources

Core Component of “ PBS Works” Suite

Leibniz-Rechenzentrum 9700

NMCAC 14K+ CoresNASA AMES 51K+ Cores

CINES 12K+ Cores

DoD HPCMOD 50k+ Cores


PBS Works 10.x features

• Tunable Scheduling Formula• Define any policy – including on-the-

fly “exceptions”

• Green Computing• Only Machines Running Jobs Use

Power

• Submission Filtering “Hooks” • Change/augment capabilities in the

field, on-the-fly, without source

• Standing Reservations • Guarantee resources for recurring

needs

• Standards-based Metascheduling• Single, consistent interface for all your

enterprise HPC resources• Supports Microsoft Windows HPC clusters

as well as other HPC standards-compliant workload managers

• PBS Application Service • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Layer

• Individual User and Group Limits • Make Fine-grained Policy Adjustments

• High Availability for Advance Reservations

• Ensures Reservations Succeed Despite Failures


PBS Catalyst™

Intuitive, application-aware job submission and management portal


PBS Catalyst (web – desktop)

Drag-and-drop input to submit

• Recognizes application and fills in default job parameters

• Output is automatically returned

Increase user productivity

• Monitor, manage, prioritize jobs

• Create profiles for common runs

• Connect to multiple PBS servers


Vertical Portals

I push enter and my jobs run;the results come back when they’re done.

– Major Automotive OEM


PBS Analytics™

Visualize historical usage for optimized returns on HPC investments


PBS Analytics

A web-based portal for visualizing HPC usage data


PBS Analytics Benefits

• Generate reports automatically “out-of-the-box”, then customize...

• Understand usage trends for capacity planning

• Verify project planning assumptions to meet deadlines

• Extract accounting data for chargeback

• Back compatible up to PBS 5.4…


Top Ten Charts

Extract and Compare Key Attributes of Majority Usage

Chart Displays Dominant Data: Top Users, Groups, Software, …


Chart Customization Tool

Quickly and Easily Create Custom Charts

Simple, table-based configuration tool for defining charts


PBS Analytics Features

• Directly visualize PBS Professional accounting data

• Numerous graph types

• Secure, role-based access: users view their data; managers view

group data

• Customize, save, and share reports or entire dashboards

• Drill-down to underlying data

• Publish via web and export to Excel


PBS Analytics License TrackerLicense utilization

0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov

Count

Avg = 6,446.000Avg = 6,446.000

Max = 10,949.000Max = 10,949.000

Min = 251.000Min = 251.000

0

200

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

1,600

1,800

2,000

03 06 09 12 15 18 21 24

Count

Avg = 265.500Avg = 265.500

Max = 1,888.000Max = 1,888.000

Min = 16.000Min = 16.000 0

10

20

30

40

50

02 05 08 11 14 17 20 23

Count

Avg = 20.042Avg = 20.042

Max = 41.000Max = 41.000

Min = 4.000Min = 4.000

years

2009 2008 2007 2006

months

Jan Apr Jul Oct

Feb May Aug Nov

Mar Jun Sep Dec

days

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08

09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

25 26 27 28 29 30 31

year: 2008

month: 06/2008 day: 01/06/2008

License utilization by group -- details

08/2008

103

10/2008

198

Delta

95

92.2%

Group 9999 66.7%

Group 7 33.3%

Group 1 35.5%

Group 6 30.0%

Group 8 12.7%

Group 4 10.0%

Group 2 9.1%

Group 3 2.7%

+110

-15

+110

Group 1: 39

Group 6: 33

Group 8: 14

Group 4: 11

Group 2: 10

Group 3: 3

Group 7: -5

Group 9999: -10

-1508/2008 10/2008

•Report license utilization by group, software and project

•Report how many deny during the selected period

•Delta between two different period

PBS ALT performs :

• data collection

• licences monitoring

• data store


Select Hardware & Software Partners


PBS Works 10.1 : a new user experience by Altair

e-Computee-BioChem

e-Render

PBS Catalyst

GreenProvisioning

PBS AnalyticsApplication

Service


Thank You!

PBS Professional®, PBS Catalyst™, PBS Analytics™, e-Compute™, e-Render™, e-BioChem™, Green Provisioning™