1. 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

2. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Altair Technology Update - AGENDA Altair Engineering : our backgroud Altair HPC vision PBS Works suite description PBS Professional update PBS Catalyst PBS Analytics

3. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 19 85 1,300 Employees 22% CAGR over 15 years $100M 20 09 Altair Engineering : our backgroud 1980-90’s – NASA PBS for parallel computers MPI-2 I/O editor NASA Metacenter: one big computer Whitney Cluster project Grid Forum, founder & director 2000-10’s – Altair Commercialized PBS Professional NASA’s Information Power Grid PBS runs on all 7 continents! Open Grid Forum board member PBS GridWorks suite

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

5. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Altair HPC vision : maximize value Resource Optimization CPU s 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

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

7. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. PBS Works - Products (NEW) e-Compute e-BioChem e-Render PBS Catalyst Green Provisioning PBS Analytics Application Service

8. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Commercial-grade workload and resource management

9. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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+ Cores NASA AMES 51K+ Cores CINES 12K+ Cores DoD HPCMOD 50k+ Cores

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

11. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. PBS Catalyst™ Intuitive, application-aware job submission and management portal

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

13. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Vertical Portals I push enter and my jobs run; the results come back when they’re done. – Major Automotive OEM

14. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. PBS Analytics™ Visualize historical usage for optimized returns on HPC investments

15. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. PBS Analytics A web-based portal for visualizing HPC usage data

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

17. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Top Ten Charts Extract and Compare Key Attributes of Majority Usage Chart Displays Dominant Data: Top Users, Groups, Software, …

18. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Chart Customization Tool Quickly and Easily Create Custom Charts Simple, table-based configuration tool for defining charts

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

20. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. PBS Analytics License Tracker 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

21. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Select Hardware & Software Partners

22. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. PBS Works 10.1 : a new user experience by Altair e-Compute e-BioChem e-Render PBS Catalyst Green Provisioning PBS Analytics Application Service

23. Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Thank You! PBS Professional®, PBS Catalyst™, PBS Analytics™, e-Compute™, e-Render™, e-BioChem™, Green Provisioning™