Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. PBS GridWorks - Efficient Application Scheduling in Distributed Environments Dr. Jochen Krebs Business Development Manager Enterprise Computing Altair Engineering GmbH

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Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. PBS GridWorks – Overview What is PBS GridWorks? Workload Manager  PBS Professional Application Awareness  AIF Web Service Interface  AIF Historical & Near-Real Time Accounting  GridWorks Analytics Job Submission, Monitoring, & Management  GridWorks Portal & Desktop Administrator Control Center  GridWorks Portal

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. PBS GridWorks – Overall Development Goals Easy to use Hard to break Do more with less Keep track & plan Open architecture

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. PBS GridWorks Suite/PBS Professional New/enhanced features May 2008 Tunable Formula/Eligible time Standing Reservations Integration with SGI Propack 5 Altix ICE/XE Cray products will be able to use the latest version of PBS Professional (X2 and XT systems)

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. Tunable Formula/Eligible time Extend the scheduler's tunable formula to include additional mathematical operations Custom Resources currently are viewable and request able/modifiable by all users, operators, and managers. This Formula may be in in conjunction with the standard PBS Professional scheduler Example: Company A would like to create per-job coefficients in their formula which are set by system defaults and not able to be requested/modified or viewed by the user. For example A, B, C and D below would be these coefficient resources. A *(Queue Priority) + B*(Job Class Priority) + C*(CPUs) + D*(Queue Wait Time)

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. Standing Reservations Provides the ability to for administrator to setup a reoccurring requirement for resources

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. Easy to Use  Portals Increase Productivity I push enter and my jobs run; the results come back when they’re done. --Major Automotive OEM

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. Open Architecture  Best-in-Class Technology Commitment to standards POSIX Batch Standard, key participant MPI-2 standard, editor Grid Forum, Board of Directors OGSA HPC Basic Profile, contributor Extensible architecture Unified job and resource architecture Interfaces for 3 rd party integrations (API, AIF, Hooks) Since 1999

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction to GridWorks Analytics GridWorks Analytics is designed to: Dynamically generate and present reports against any of the PBS Accounting information By using the technology of HiQube Business Intelligence Software as the core technology. GridWorks Analytics will be able to: Present PBS data from a historical and Near Real Time perspectives The GW Analytics Will provide a web interface as the accounting and reporting user interface Will deliver canned reports that can be configured “out of the box” Will provide capability for customers to create own reports

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. Keep track and plan: GridWorks Analytics

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. GridWorks Analytics Reports Top 15 users By number of jobs Total Average Time Delta from November to December

Copyright © 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved. Future Challenges Performance & Scalability Support Power Savings Support for new Hardware Platforms Interoperability TM