Hierarchical Scheduling for High-throughput Computing Workloads

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With faster computers comes new complexities that, if understood, can be mastered to yield significant application performance and cost improvements. In this breakout session, we will investigate how the Azure HBv3 offering, with increased memory bandwidth and L3 cache, can drastically reduce time to solution for AcuSolve at scale. We will cover some benchmarks and show how they perform on Azure at various scale points. This data will enable AcuSolve users to reduce time to solution so they can dedicate more time to improving their product.

Together with cloud providers and our other HPC partners, Intel is driving the performance and flexibility that are critical to running advanced HPC workloads in the cloud. We collaborate across our HPC ecosystem to help cloud providers offer accelerated, secure, and agile environments using our latest technologies, such as Intel® Xeon® processors. As cloud customers continue exploring new possibilities and applications for HPC, Intel is dedicated to facilitating their success. Intel works with HPC partners from various industries to enable forward-thinking cloud use cases such as bursting, AI, and advanced analytics. Learn how Intel collaborates with Public and Private Cloud Service Providers to optimize HPC workloads for fast, cost-effective execution on Intel-based Cloud Instances.

As Argonne National Laboratory prepares to support researchers tackling critical problems on its Polaris supercomputer and eventually its Exascale system, Aurora, William (Bill) Allcock, Manager, ALCF Advanced Integration Group, outlines the critical role of workload management in advancing what’s possible with HPC. He will share how his team’s initial exploration of open-source workload management technology led to their adoption of Altair’s commercial solution, PBS Professional, in 2021, and to a partnership between HPC experts at ANL and Altair that will shepherd workload management technology into the future of Exascale and beyond.​

Weather and climate centers worldwide rely on the power of high-performance computing (HPC) to track, analyze, simulate and predict the behavior of weather systems, climate patterns and other atmospheric phenomena. In this roundtable, experts from leading weather and climate centers across the globe will detail how they harness HPC to fuel this critically important research. Topics will include:​ - Advanced workload orchestration to optimize resource utilization and accelerate research timelines​ - Maintaining critical uptime: alerting, support and redundancy measures​ - Storage and I/O optimization to manage massive data volumes​ - Machine learning and artificial intelligence to accelerate simulation timelines and improve prediction

At this moment, Altair has the largest brain trust of HPC expertise in the world. Join the experts who have shepherded technology as original as PBS, Sun Grid Engine and Runtime Design Automation into today’s high stakes commercial HPC space. They’ll discuss the decades of advancement, development and acquisition that went into assembling the most comprehensive HPC optimization portfolio on the market, preparing us for an all new definition of “high performance computing.”​

The massive exploration of ideas through computational science and artificial intelligence is fueled by high-performance computing. In the cloud, on-premises, at the edge, and everywhere in between, explore the HPC technology maximizing HPC throughput and utilization for breakthrough results.

Today’s most competitive engineering, research, and design teams can access their software, their data, and importantly, powerful HPC resources, from anywhere in the world. From launching software on any device to accelerating jobs with on-demand solving power and seamlessly visualizing, sharing, and managing data with their team, in this session attendees will follow a “day in the life” of the modern engineer, with a special look at how HPC and cloud technology make it possible to scale exploration exponentially without increasing the hours spent at engineering desks.

In this session, cloud expert Rick Watkins presents three actionable HPC and cloud models designed to optimize innovation potential and longtime ROI, whether your team is small and nimble or maintains its own large compute infrastructure. Engineers interested in boosting performance with HPC will come away with an understanding of what HPC and cloud model could be right for them – as well as a high-level appreciation for the critical role that IT infrastructure optimization plays in maintaining your team’s competitive edge, and all the complexity involved in making appear simple.

In this panel, participants including Dr. Gerardo Olivares of the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) and David Griffith of Robotic Process Automation software provider, AmdoSoft, will be joined by Altair’s own SVP - Strategic Relationships, Piush Patel, to discuss the benefits and complexities of navigating the complex HPC and cloud landscape. If you are a software user looking to accelerate productivity or vendor eager to understand how cloud delivery models can benefit your customers and bottom line, this panel will provide a practical look at the complex cloud landscape from the perspective of software stakeholders and advice from experts on how to embrace it.

Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) supports and advances this research in the geosciences with the world-class HPC and high-performance storage.  For workload management and resource scheduling, NCAR uses Altair PBS Professional to exploit features like cloud bursting, fairshare, power-user and maintenance reservations, resource assignment with control groups, high-throughput hierarchical scheduling, green provisioning, and energy-aware scheduling. This presentation by Irfan Elahi, Brian Vanderwende, and John Blaas from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) was aired during the 2021 Altair HPC Summit, and is about 29 minutes long. View all HPC Summit 2021 Presentations

Altair's Stuart Taylor, director of enterprise computing core development, gives you an inside look at the license-first scheduling strategy the world's top technology companies use to increase the amount of high-performance, high-throughput computing jobs that can be executed across a finite resource set.

PBS Works CTO Bill Nitzberg gets excited about the all-new PBS Professional 2020.1 with new features including cloud bursting, forecasting and simulation, budgeting and accounting, and hierarchical scheduling.

Altair's EMEA enterprise computing director, Chris Townend, and product manager, Ian Littlewood, team up to talk about adopting HPC in the cloud and making it simple for users and administrators.

Altair's Ian Littlewood, product manager for enterprise computing core development, talks about budget allocation and workload simulation in the new PBS Professional 2020.

NIWA's Dr. Hilary Oliver, inventor of the Cylc engine for cycling workflows, joins Altair's David Block and Ashish Singh to share details about the Altair Weather Solution featuring PBS Professional and Cylc.

James R. Scapa brings more than 35 years of engineering experience to his dual role of chairman and CEO of Altair, a title he has held since the company's inception in 1985. Through Scapa's leadership, the company is now a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics. Today, the company employs over 3,000 engineers, scientists and creatives with more than 86 offices in 25 countries. With more than 11,000 customers globally, Altair software enables customers to enhance product performance, compress development time and reduce costs. Scapa earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a master of business administration degree from University of Michigan.

Simulation-driven design powered by topology optimization was created by OptiStruct over two decades ago. Its success has changed the CAE/CAD industry as today all vendors have embraced this trend.

James R. Scapa brings more than 35 years of engineering experience to his dual role of chairman and CEO of Altair, a title he has held since the company's inception in 1985.

“Altair transforms design and decision making by applying simulation, machine learning and optimization throughout product lifecycles”. We envisioned and matured our platform to provide a helping hand in taking our customers through the digital transformation journey to enable business transformation.

Engineers are experts at … engineering. Is it truly productive to also require deep expertise in IT and Linux, just to leverage HPC?

Altair Founder, Chairman, and CEO James Scapa addresses how HPC has evolved over the past 30+ years, and how Altair has been putting the pieces in place to drive the future of multi-dimensional HPC. The presentation outlines Altair’s vision for the convergence of HPC, artificial intelligence, and simulation. The keynote was presented at the 2021 Altair HPC Summit, and is over 17 minutes long. View all HPC Summit 2021 Presentations

In her presentation at SC21, Dr. Rosemary Francis explains how developers and administrators get the most out of their workload managers using the wide range of Altair enterprise computing solutions running SUSE Enterprise Linux.