Commercial-grade HPC workload management and job scheduling solution
Gaining a competitive advantage of being cost effective and productive have emerged as today’s biggest HPC challenges. Serving as the foundation of all PBS Works solutions, PBS Professional provides improved productivity, optimized resource utilization & efficiency, and scheduling the process of big data.
As HPC facilities move beyond petascale towards exascale systems, an effective workload management solution is essential. PBS Professional has the capabilities to move toward exascale computing, and has a proven history of scalability with leading HPC facilities, including those in the Top500.
Watch our video on PBS Professional's benefits in gaining the most out of your HPC environment.
PBS Professional 12.1 now available!
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Some key items include:
- Green Provisioning™: Monitor, shutdown, and restart computing resources based on HPC workload requirements to support enterprise energy conservation initiatives. Validated by several leading PBS Works sites, Green Provisioning has lowered their energy use by up to 30 percent.
- Security: PBS Professional is the only workload management solution to be EAL3+ certified.
- Policy-driven Job Scheduling: PBS Professional makes it possible to easily create intelligent policies to manage distributed, mixed-vendor computing assets as a single, unified system. Based on a policy-driven architecture, PBS Works continually optimizes how your technical HPC resources are used, ensuring that all resources are effective and efficient.
- Scalability: Easily scaling to support hundreds of thousands of processors – from clusters to the largest systems – PBS Professional ensures administrators get the maximum value from their computing infrastructure. Click here to watch PBS Works' CTO discuss his outlook on scalability in the next 20 years.