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PBS Professional Manages Workload for Czech National Supercomputing Center
Applicable Functions
- Procurement
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
- Usage-Based Insurance
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The National Supercomputing Center IT4Innovations, a research institute at the VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava (VŠBTUO) in the Czech Republic, was faced with the challenge of supporting the needs of a massive supercomputing system with a large, diverse user base. The supercomputer, being built in two parts, was expected to be one of the 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world upon completion in 2015. The Center had six research directions dealing with a wide variety of computational problems, including real-time traffic analysis/management, flood modeling/predictions, air pollution modeling/preventions, molecular dynamics simulations, and modeling of new materials. Given the wide variety of users and applications, IT4I realized they needed a reliable, high-performing workload management product for the Supercomputing Center’s users. The procurement procedure demanded an advanced job scheduler and resource manager along with advanced tools for utilization analysis.
About The Customer
The National Supercomputing Center IT4Innovations is a research institute at the VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava (VŠBTUO) in the Czech Republic, funded by the EU Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation. The Center is utilized by hundreds of researchers from leading institutes across the Czech Republic. Since 2011, IT4Innovations has been part of the prestigious European network of PRACE supercomputing centers and thus provides resources to other European researchers as well. The Center is building a unique supercomputer to support the leading-edge computational research that will be performed by the Center’s users.
The Solution
After evaluating many commercial and open source products, the experts at Bull recommended Altair’s PBS Professional® as the workload manager to fulfill the tight requirements for the scheduler in this procurement. The decision was confirmed by the director of Supercomputing Services at IT4I, who stated that PBS Professional provides one of the most advanced and mature solutions. The experts at IT4Innovations Supercomputing Services department used their previous experience with PBS Professional to define the functional criteria for the new desired scheduler. PBS Professional was chosen due to its ease of implementation and use, and its ability to meet all functional requirements. The IT4I National Supercomputing Center also implemented PBS Analytics for user analytics and reporting.
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