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2024 OpenRadioss Users' Day (In-person and on-line)
The OpenRadioss Community is delighted to be invited to Philadelphia USA by Elham Sahraei, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, and the center of excellence for the safety of electric vehicle battery packs. Check-out the Agenda and Register here today to join us in-person or on-line…
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PBS Professional 2024.1.1 is now available
Hello, I am pleased to announce that PBS Professional version 2024.1.1 is now available for customer download on the PBS User Area, Altair Connect, and Altair One Marketplace. PBS Pro 2024.1.1 is a bug fix release. The fixes include: HPCPBS-30619 Cgroup hook crashes if ANY process on the system has more than two spaces in…
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PBS Professional 2022.1.6 is Now Available
Hello, I am pleased to announce that PBS Professional version 2022.1.6 is now available for download on the PBS User Area and Altair Connect (Altair One Marketplace will be updated with the new version over night US time). PBS Pro 2022.1.6 is a bug fix release. The release includes the following important fixes:…
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Mistral Elasticsearch indices in 2023.1 and 2024.1
In line with the data and dashboard changes in Mistral 2023.1, we extended the set of Mistral indexes for Elastic search to make it easier for data life cycle management. The elastic search plugin used to put all data into Elastic Search under one index, but since Mistral 2023.1, the Mistral Elasticsearch Plugin uses five…
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PBS Professional 2022.1.5 Released
PBS Professional 2022.1.5 is now available for download in the User Area, Altair One Marketplace, and Altair Connect. This is a bug fix release that fixes 1 important issue: PBS-30192: Job which conflicts with top jobs/reservations can be run by scheduler if the last resource in the select statement requests 0, pushing out…
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PBS Professional 2024.1.0 Released
Hello, I am happy to announce that PBS Professional 2024.1.0 is now available! Software packages and documentation can be obtained via the PBS Professional User Area, Altair One Marketplace, and Altair Connect. PBS Professional 2024.1.0 contains many features and updates, including: GraphQL WebAPI Interface for job…
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Future.Industry 2024 - Track 3
On day 2 at the Future.Industry 2024 – you can find out more about the power and potential of High-Performance Computing in the track Revolutionizing HPC in the Era of AI and Cloud. Achieving results promptly and with increased efficiency is more important than ever before. Hear from industry experts on how to utilize the…
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Future.Industry 2024 - Track 1
On day 2 at the Future.Industry 2024 our first parallel track will focus on - Next-Gen AI & Engineering: Design and Simulation Intelligence, we’ll share real world applications of AI-driven design and simulation. Discover the transformative engineering and design advancements emerging from the convergence of simulation,…
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New Video: SC23 CIQ booth presentation "The Difference Between Altair PBS Professional and OpenPBS"
Scott Campbell, Altair® PBS Professional™ product manager, highlights the differences and benefits of PBS Professional and OpenPBS® at the CIQ booth during SC23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYfTy-GYjDk
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Altair HPCWorks: A Comprehensive Solution for High-Performance Computing Management Over Open-Source Job Schedulers
Manjunath Doddam, Altair HPCWorks Senior Technical Specialist, has put together a great white paper that highlights the advantages of the Altair HPCWorks platform over OSS options. Thank you, Manju! The Altair® HPCWorks™ high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud platform offers a solution that’s superior to open-source…
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New Video: Introduction to Hooks in Altair® PBS Professional®
Altair PBS Professional has a unique customization architecture that allows administrators to install python hooks, triggered by events in the workload manager. There are many events to choose from, on both the server side and on the execution host, making it possible to tune PBS Professional to your exact needs. In this…
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Major release: Mistral 2023.1
This release brings many improvements to Mistral data, increasing the amount of information while dramatically decreasing the amount of data written to the database. * Mistral will output JSON instead of CSV. This format is much more efficient so we have more info for less data, so the main effect customers will see is…
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Major release: Breeze 2023.1.1
Breeze 2023.1.1 is released. This is a major release with lots of exciting improvements What's new in this release: * Renamed shared object library from libdryrun.so to libbreeze.so. libdryrun.so is now a symlink to libbreeze.so. * Removed Light mode from BreezeAP in preparation for new more scalable import coming in…
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Petascale Computing in the ‘Silicon Valley of Asia’
Technology is big in Asia — with increasing percentages of the world’s growth in tech revenue, startup funding, R&D spending, and patents filed — and the newest high-tech hub is Singapore, which recently earned the nickname ‘the Silicon Valley of Asia’ because of its flourishing and fast-paced technology landscape. NSCC…
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HPC and AI at Argonne Help Researchers Chase Down COVID-19 Virus Variants
The COVID-19 pandemic may be over, but many people are still watching nervously as the virus continues to spread and mutate. Can artificial intelligence help us deal with this ongoing global health problem? The answer is yes, and a team of researchers won a Gordon Bell Prize for their work using AI to track virus variants.…
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PBS Professional 2022.1.3 Released
Hello, I am pleased to announce that PBS Professional version 2022.1.3 is now available for customer download on the PBS Professional User Area, Altair Connect, and Altair One Marketplace. While PBS Pro 2022.1.3 is primarily a bug fix release, support for RHEL 9, Rocky 9, and Ubuntu 22.04 for both x86_64 and ARM has also…
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Are Bad I/O Patterns Slowing You Down?
You can be doing everything right — managing your HPC environment like a pro, orchestrating complex workloads, analysing performance and utilisation to get actionable results — but you can still get bogged down by the hidden bottlenecks that result from bad I/O patterns. Maybe you tested a workflow on one or two nodes,…
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Make Cloud Migration a Breeze
The days when “lift and shift” meant breaking a sweat are over, and more organisations than ever are lifting and shifting workloads to the cloud. But are they doing it the right way? Storage is often a secondary consideration when setting up HPC infrastructure, but it can make a critical difference when it comes to…
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What makes life sciences different from other HPC industries?
Life sciences center relies on HPC to accelerate the time to science to further our knowledge of the world and to save lives. The compute needs are often distinct from the requirements of more general HPC centers or other industry verticals. For example, the biologists and bioinformaticians at Bielefeld University’s Center…
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Using Cgroups with PBS Professional
Cgroups are a powerful part of Linux that you can use to manage access to resources. This is critical in HPC where many users can share very large compute nodes and require isolation between their workloads. In this article we will look at what you can do with cgroups, how to use them, and how PBS Professional is…
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Accelerating Digital Transformation - Future.Industry 2023
Accelerating Digital Transformation At Future.Industry 2023, we’ll explore the latest megatrends impacting our world. From electrification and the data-driven enterprise to AI-driven simulation and semiconductors, you’ll learn how the convergence of simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI can unlock the full…
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Building a multi-vendor cloud HPC solution at Punch Torino
PUNCH Torino, an engineering company specializing in designing and developing innovative propulsion systems and control solutions, needed to build a new HPC platform following a change of ownership. Rather than establish an on-prem cluster for their organization, the HPC team at PUNCH chose to partner with Altair and…
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Agile and cloud-ready genome pipelines at the Wellcome Sanger Institute
It’s easy for the complexity of High-Performance Computing to cloud the real purpose of the workload. Across HPC, but especially in life sciences, accelerating the time to science really saves lives. At Altair, our tools and processes are not just for improving the return on investment. Our products aim to give you more…
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Success with scaling 3x in the cloud for Johnson and Johnson
Cloud computing offers scalability and access to new and innovative technology when you need it, but it comes at a price. You need to be conscious of budgets, resources, and applications as well as jobs and user access, all while battling steep costs and unused, overused, or underused clusters running when they shouldn’t…
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Optimized HPC with critical security using PBS Professional
Regardless of industry, security plays a critical role in the design and management of your high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. Managing workload and data protection while balancing different security levels and access likely sounds familiar. It’s why our customers rely on Altair® PBS Professional®. With unmatched…