Benzinga | Nov 10, 2021 07:53AM EST

Argonne National Laboratory Selects Altair To Turbocharge Scientific Breakthroughs In The Exascale Era

Altair (NASDAQ:ALTR), the global leader converging simulation, HPC, and AI, announced that Argonne National Laboratory will utilize Altair PBS Professional across the organization's HPC systems at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) -- including the Polaris and Aurora supercomputers -- to accelerate breakthroughs in science and engineering and lead the era of exascale computing. The ALCF is a U.S. Department of Energy user facility at Argonne National Laboratory.

PBS Professional -- which replaces the ALCF's Cobalt workload manager -- will be the default workload management solution and job scheduler and will allow researchers to easily and more efficiently run diverse workloads, including machine learning and data-intensive tasks, as well as traditional simulations.

With Polaris as a leading-edge testbed system for Aurora, scheduled to be the fastest exascale computing system in the U.S. and capable of performing a quintillion calculations per second, it's critical to ensure that downtime is avoided as it could put research teams hundreds of hours behind completing a project. Supported by Altair's global team of HPC specialists, PBS Professional will optimize and manage thousands of node hours simultaneously and will help ensure that researchers using the ALCF can make quicker, more efficient scientific discoveries.