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Weizmann Institute Chemistry Faculty Enhances Cluster Performance with PBS Professional
技术
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
- 传感器 - 液位传感器
适用行业
- 化学品
- 生命科学
适用功能
- 设施管理
- 产品研发
用例
- 库存管理
- 基于使用的保险
服务
- 系统集成
挑战
魏茨曼科学研究所的化学系在管理其高性能计算 (HPC) 设施方面面临着重大挑战。该 HPC 集群由 1242 个核心组成，为数百名教职员工提供服务，并且正在扩展到 3096 个核心。该集群被广泛用于研究领域，包括量子力学、蛋白质折叠、DNA 识别、湍流物理和气候建模。安装的软件混合了先进的 C 和 FORTRAN 编译器、数学库以及各种免费、学术、商业和自制的专用软件工具。工作负载类型差异很大，不同的团队有不同的优先级和需求。计算环境是一个由用户、资源、需求和策略组成的复杂系统，需要仔细管理。该研究所寻求一家能够提供始终如一的高性能、支持用户优先级和配置文件的复杂性、主动、协作的解决方案交付方法以及可靠的用户支持的工作负载管理软件供应商。
关于客户
魏茨曼科学研究所是世界领先的多学科研究机构。数百名科学家、实验室技术人员和研究生每天踏上探索未知世界的迷人旅程，寻求提高我们对自然及其在其中的地位的理解。魏茨曼研究所科学家进行的基础研究产生了突破性的医疗和技术应用，包括羊膜穿刺术、用于高精度钻石切割的复杂激光系统、活性聚合和核糖体结构分析，该研究所的教授阿达·约纳特因此获得了诺贝尔奖。化学。该研究所的化学学院使用高性能计算 (HPC) 设施在各个领域进行尖端研究。
解决方案
该研究所选择 Altair 的 PBS Professional 作为他们的工作负载管理软件，取代了他们之前的解决方案（来自 AdaptiveComputing 的 Moab）。 PBS Professional 因其处理复杂需求的灵活性以及该公司卓越的服务和支持水平而被选中。该软件能够管理研究所复杂的用户策略，其中需要管理硬限制和软限制。安装过程非常顺利，大约需要 30 分钟，Altair 的支持专家能够在不到一周的时间内将之前的调度程序使用的策略直接转换为 PBS Professional，从而简化了转换过程。 Altair 还提供了一个自定义扩展，可以根据某些用户选择删除或重新提交暂停的作业，从而确保系统负载得到良好管理。
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