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Workload Management Software Orchestrates a Win
Delivering maximum hardware performance is what workload management software is all about.
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Breaking Barriers in High-Performance Computing
Sandia National Laboratories and Cray Inc. are partnering to develop a system that will take the supercomputing industry by storm.
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Increasing Productivity with Real-Time Interactivity on Grids
Dealing with the growing prevalence of Big Data.
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Making NASA’s Grand Challenge Workload Manageable
PBS Professional intelligently schedules and manages computational workload.
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PBS Professional at Boeing: Workflow Management for R & D
The Boeing Information Technology group provides a wide range of computing services to the entire corporation from its Bellevue, Washington computing campus. For the engineers who design Boeing commercial aircraft, the heartbeat of this campus is the Data Center, which houses the high performance computing (HPC) systems that they access to run engineering simulations and analyses.
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PBS Professional at the University of Michigan: HPC Clusters, Cycle Harvesting, & Grid Computing
At the University of Michigan, research is taking innovative paths. One project creates microscopic compartments in which cells can grow as they would in the human body. Another proposes an \"animal on a chip\" concept in which human body fluids and cells move through a matrix of simulated organs. Scores of projects like these rely on access to a high-performance computing architecture. The University is just as innovative in supplying computing power as it is in putting it to work.
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PBS Professional at the University of Florida: Scalability and Reliability for A Campus-Wide HPC Solution
In 2001, a fact-finding committee at the University of Florida confirmed the faculty's suspicions: they were long on high performance computing expertise, but short on HPC infrastructure. Research groups were hungry for compute cycles, and the announcement of an HPC initiative drew strong support across the Gainesville campus. Faculty members and researchers contributed funds from research grants, which were matched by the colleges and again by the administration.
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PBS Professional at TRW Automotive: A Standard Solution for European Design Centers
As a global technology company, TRW Automotive touches most of us in ways we're unaware of. And when we drive, it is practically a certainty that a TRW system with brakes, airbags, seat belts, or steering is part of the experience. A Tier One automotive industry supplier with a focus on safety products, TRW Automotive works with almost any car and truckmaker you can name, worldwide.
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PBS Professional at Trelleborg: An Automotive Design Group Maximizes Productivity
When you look for a new car, you probably think about style, comfort, performance, economy, or innovative electronics. You won't be thinking about the kinds of parts that Trelleborg Automotive makes. But they're there, all right, mostly unsung and out of sight, and you wouldn't want to be without them. Trelleborg, a Swedish corporation with a 100-year pedigree in engineering innovation, makes molded rubber components that damp down vibration and smooth out your ride. They cushion your engine where it meets the chassis. They buffer the mechanics of your steering column and your suspension. Almost all of them do their jobs without ever seeing the light of day – but if your floor gearshift lever has a rubber housing, that housing may have come from Trelleborg.
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PBS Professional at TGen: Cutting Time to Discovery
In recent years, corporations and research institutions around the world have applied massive computational resources to defining the makeup of the human genome. One of the greatest challenges is to translate that knowledge into therapeutics and diagnostics – which is the mission of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a remarkable non-profit organization founded by a joint effort between the State of Arizona, Arizona State Municipal Governments, Indian Tribal Community, educational institutions, private foundations and corporate entities. TGen's work is not only to make genetic discoveries, but also to translate discoveries into benefits for human health in the form of new diagnostic tests and therapies.
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PBS Professional at The Scripps Research Institute
The campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) overlooks the Pacific near San Diego. Its proximity to the famed (but unrelated) Scripps Oceanographic Institute occasionally causes confusion of identities. But TSRI is prestigious in a totally different way. This is the world's largest private non-profit biomedical research facility, with more than a million square feet of laboratory space, a staff of 2,800, a faculty of 290, 800 postdoctoral fellows, 164 graduate students, and at least 1500 technical and administrative support personnel. The talented TSRI staff generates constant high-performance computing workload managed by PBS Pro on over a thousand CPU’s.
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PBS Professional at NASA Ames Research Center
No Problem Is Too Big is a very fitting motto for the Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, where enormous compute resources are doing grand challenge science for scientists across the country.
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PBS Professional at LSU's Center for Computation & Technology: Workflow Management for A Statewide Supercomputing Infrastructure
When then-governor Mike Foster came out with his Louisiana: Vision 20/20 program in 1998, he set forces in motion that are turning the state into a research and scientific high performance computing (HPC) powerhouse. Part of the plan was to drive economic development with information technology through higher education. As a result, five of the state's universities share an annual state appropriation of $25 million as funding for a statewide HPC infrastructure.
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PBS Professional at GE's Oil & Gas business: Putting An Engineering Cluster to Work
Next time you stop to fill your fuel tank, reflect on the fact that a company on the sunny slopes of Tuscany may have helped to make it possible. Nuovo Pignone, now a key technological component of GE's Oil & Gas business, began life 100 years ago as a foundry. Today more than 20,000 machines – turbomachinery, compressors, pumps, valves, and metering and fuel distribution equipment – manufactured by this GE business are operated worldwide by major companies to keep petroleum products moving from oil rigs to storage facilities to refineries to distribution points.
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Ford Motor Company: Building an Efficient HPC Infrastructure
The cars, trucks, vans and SUVs that roll off Ford Motor Company assembly lines are safer, quieter, and more comfortable than ever. Many of the intangibles that contribute to Ford quality flow from the innovative use of high performance computing (HPC) techniques. At Ford's Numerically Intensive Computing Department (NIC) in Dearborn, Michigan, engineers run simulations in codes such as NASTRAN and LS-DYNA for predictive analysis of cylinder cooling, wind noise, vibration, ride quality, crashworthiness, durability, and other characteristics that contribute to industry-leading automotive design.
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PBS Professional at Weill Cornell Medical College
The high performance computing resources at the Weill Cornell Medical College have
grown swiftly over the last three years. Their computational muscle supports researchers in the College's Department of Physiology and Biophysics, roughly half of whose work is computational. They work primarily in structural biology, exploring the molecular structures and mechanisms of DNA and the proteins it generates. A key focus of their work is the way the proteins in cell membranes control the signaling that goes on between the complex world inside the cell and the entities outside. Other studies focus on the heart and the nervous system using a multi-scale, systems-oriented approach. Researchers use mathematical modeling and large-scale simulations to explain how seemingly small changes at the genetic and molecular level – which may have very subtle effects at the cellular level – can lead to severe medical problems.
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PBS Professional at AIST
Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the result of a major 2001 reorganization of national research facilities, is a powerhouse of interdisciplinary industrial research. Its many institutes employ more than 2500 researchers, and more than 5000 visiting researchers participate in its programs. They work in six basic fields: the life sciences; information technology; materials and manufacturing, including nanotech, energy and the environment; geology and geoscience; and measurement technology.
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PBS Professional at National Institute of Health
Twenty-seven institutes and centers make up the National Institutes of Health. Many of their acronyms, listed on the NIH website (nih.gov), can be as mysterious as hieroglyphics: NHGRI, NIGMS, NIAMS. Others, such as NCI (National Cancer Institute) and NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) are familiar to most of us. By any name or acronym, this cluster of organizations in Bethesda, Maryland is a major force in health
sciences research.
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MATLAB® and PBS ProfessionalTM for Efficient Distributed Computing
Engineers and scientists who use Distributed Computing Toolbox and
MATLAB® Distributed Computing Engine to develop distributed and parallel
applications will now be able to run jobs on PBS Professional clusters in a
highly simplified way. The combination of these tools makes it possible to assemble the most cost-effective use of mixed environments running MATLAB®. In doing so, users can easily handle complex scheduling challenges for multiple MATLAB® jobs and ensure that resources are used in an extremely efficient way.
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In the Know About Engineering Intelligence
Engineering Intelligence enables companies to gather, process, analyze
and present data about engineering-performance metrics.
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PBS GridWorks Speeds Software Development for the Other Side of Altair
Increased Process Efficiency Shrinks the
HyperWorks Product Development Cycle
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PBS Professional at Chrysler: Managing 250,000 Simulations a Year
The people who design cars and trucks at Chrysler have been using computer simulation tools since the 1980s. Since those early beginnings, the use of computer-aided engineering and finite element analysis has expanded to become the powerhouse enabler for Chrysler designers that it is today.
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PBS Professional at AMET: Harnessing A New High Performance Cluster
AMET (Applied Mechatronic Engineering and Technologies) began operations
in 1999 as a spinoff from the Mechatronics Laboratory of the Politecnico di Torino. Today the Turin-based company (www.amet.it) boasts a client list that includes well-known names from a broad range of industries
including aerospace, rail, and automotive. Its products, from dummies to
door-testers, and its range of engineering and process design services, are all based on high performance computing simulations.
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PBS Professional at Toulouse Genopole
The Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Genopole, a research program set up in 1999 in southern France by the French Minister of Research, is part of the massive French research initiative known as the National Genopole Network. The genopole name is metaphoric. It brings to mind a magnetic pole that attracts researchers and entrepreneurs to the potential of genomic research. And it is working: the initiative has drawn together, at seven locations across France, a symbiotic mix of public laboratories, biotech companies, and educational institutions. The genopoles stimulate genomics research and may provide an incubator for biotech enterprises.
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Scheduling Jobs onto GPUs using PBS Professional
With the advent of the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) as a general-purpose computing unit, more and more customers are moving towards GPU-based clusters to run their scientific and engineering applications. This model allows users to use a CPU and GPU together in a heterogeneous computing model, where the sequential part of the application runs on the CPU and the computationally-intensive part runs on the GPU.
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PBS Professional Integration with HP CMU
As a workload management solution, PBS Professional integrates well with a variety of cluster management software. Due to recent customer requests, we have identified a number of areas where scheduling features in PBS Professional can be enabled through the use of HP's cluster management software package called Cluster Management Utility (CMU).
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