Announcing Altair Grid Engine 2023.1.0 (8.8.0)

Andy Schwierskott_22306
Andy Schwierskott_22306
Altair Employee
edited August 2023 in Altair HPCWorks

I'm happy to announce general availability of Altair Grid Engine (AGE) 2023.1.0 (8.8.0) which is now ready for download from Altair Marketplace:

  https://altairone.com/Marketplace?queryText=grid+engine

Major new functionality in this release

  • Production ready GraphQL (GQL) API
    • added OIDC (OpenId Connect) authentication and enhanced simple token authentication for GQL
    • CLI clients qstat, qhost, qdel, qalter, qhold, qrls can optionally use the GQL API
  • New Intel XPU support - proper scheduling and XPU usage metrics
  • Much improved mass job deletion performance - many workflows today by design incur mass deletions
  • Optimized PostgreSQL spooling support for high throughput environments
  • Support for latest Altair Mistral version
  • Configurable Posit (RStudio) Workbench session creation dialog - administrator pre-selects user options
  • RHEL/Rocky/Alma 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 support
  • new Cgroups features support - cpuacct, swappiness, mem_hardwall, memory_spread_page
  • Performance and throughput improvements for demanding setups