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Widely recognized for its interdisciplinary research-oriented teaching, Germany’s Bielefeld University encompasses humanities, technology, and natural and social sciences. The university’s Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) bundles the institution’s biotechnological activities and research projects, fostering cross-field collaboration and innovation. Massive volumes of data and growing user demand meant they needed a powerful, efficient workload orchestrator. The team selected Altair Grid Engine for its optimized throughput and performance, rich features, reliability, expert support, and no learning curve.

The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a world leader in research and development of advanced information processing, computing, and communications technologies — one of the nation’s largest, most successful university-affiliated computer research institutes. ISI’s Video, Image, Speech and Text Analytics (VISTA) lab makes extensive use of machine learning in a variety of application areas such as facial identification, natural language processing, and handwriting recognition. VISTA selected Altair® Grid Engine® to manage growing infrastructure and accelerate its machine learning research. Key contributing factors for VISTA’s decision to transition to Altair Grid Engine over other vendors included built-in advanced GPU support, detailed documentation, ongoing product upgrades, and expert support.

Globally recognized for pushing the boundaries of research and innovation, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is one of the United Kingdom’s leading higher education institutions, with 5 campuses in London plus sites across Europe and Asia. Queen Mary’s high-performance computing cluster supports a student and research community of over 2,000 users in disciplines including astronomy, computational chemistry, bioinformatics, computer science, engineering, mathematics and statistics, and clinical research. QMUL needed a robust solution that could take them forward and allow their researchers to run any application type. Having eliminated offerings that were cost-prohibitive, migration-intensive, or lacked support, QMUL selected Altair® Grid Engine® for its rich features, high performance, large installed base, expert support, and easy upgrade path.

The computing center at the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (CC-IN2P3) is dedicated to data storage and analysis for France’s National Center for Scientific Research. CCIN2P3 provides a 24/7 data hub for international physics, allowing more than 2,500 researchers to collaborate through its data storage, processing, and high-speed network facilities. The CC-IN2P3 recently expanded to two computer rooms with several thousand servers and libraries, enabling the storage of nearly 340 petabytes of data. As the demand for CC-IN2P3 grew, the team needed to find a robust and stable system backed by full enterprise-class support. They tested, validated, and selected Altair® Grid Engine® to address that challenge.

Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is known for leadership and innovation in business education. Staying on top as a leader among world-class business schools necessitates an HPC infrastructure that can support a vast number of users. Wharton needed to extend its HPC environment in a cost-effective way — without impacting its large roster of users, who need ready access to the latest tools, infrastructure, and technical expertise. Since Wharton was already using Altair® Grid Engine® as its go-to solution for HPC job management, the team looked to Altair NavOps™, software designed for organizations experiencing increasing volumes of high-priority workloads, where response speed and accuracy is critical.

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world’s most prominent business schools, depends on Altair Grid Engine and Altair NavOps to run a powerful, scalable and future-proof HPC infrastructure that enables researchers to focus on their core work.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, created the 1-dose COVID-19 vaccine that’s preventing infection and saving lives in 100+ countries around the world. When Janssen needed the right HPC management software for its cloud-based infrastructure, we upgraded the company's workload management software to Altair® Grid Engine® and deployed Altair® NavOps® to manage their complex cloud deployments — a solution that seamlessly integrated with AWS cloud services. The result was a simplified, automated, and extensible HPC infrastructure.