Cray XT3 Supercomputer Users Can Now Automate Workload Management Tasks With Altair's Pbs Professional17 November 2005
Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY), the global
supercomputing leader, today announced that the Altair® PBS
Professional™ workload management solution is now generally available
for the Cray XT3™ massively parallel processor (MPP) supercomputer. PBS
Professional has been fully integrated with the Cray XT3 software, allowing
high-performance computing (HPC) users to intelligently manage their
workloads across thousands of processors. PBS Professional, a leading
workload management solution, is supported for all Cray supercomputers, and
is marketed and supported by Cray and Cray resellers around the world.
The Cray XT3 is a third-generation MPP supercomputer used in leading
supercomputing centers that require exceptionally high levels of sustained
application performance and scalability to conduct scientific research and
engineering. Altair's industry-leading PBS Professional workload
management technology is now available for purchase on Cray's full product
line, which includes the Cray X1E™, Cray XT3 and Cray XD1™
supercomputers.
With the PBS Professional software integrated into the Cray XT3 system,
systems administrators can aggregate computational resources into a virtual
pool and configure scheduling policies for maximum efficiency and faster
times to solution. The software also makes end-users more productive by
providing a consistent job management interface that allows them to focus
their attention on applications and science, rather than having to deal
with various job control languages.
"We are pleased to extend our OEM agreement with Cray to include the
massive Cray XT3 systems," said Michael Humphrey, vice president of
Altair's Enterprise Computing business unit. "This deployment is further
testament to the scalability and robustness of PBS Professional, and Altair
continues to heavily invest resources in these areas. Today's Cray systems
are the latest example of the HPC industry's continuing drive to push the
limits of computing capacity and complexity. Evaluating the reliability and
resiliency of their workload management solutions will be critical in
allowing HPC customers to take full advantage of these performance gains.
Altair intends to be there to help them do just that."
"The PBS Professional solution makes it possible to integrate workflows and
assign jobs across the full complement of over 10,000 processors on our
Cray system, and to distribute workloads among other systems in the
computing center," said Rob Leland a director with Sandia National
Laboratories. "As a result, we have been able to create a computational
environment that maximizes performance and is easy to use and efficient to
administer."
"Cray's XT3 supercomputer customers demand the highest levels of efficiency
and availability from their MPP system," said Jeff Brooks, Cray XT3 product
manager. "Cray supercomputers are purpose-built to allow users in research
facilities such as Sandia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center to solve some of the world's largest and most complex
problems. Altair's PBS Professional provides these organizations with
tools they need to ensure that these critical supercomputer resources are
utilized in the most effective and productive manner possible."
About the Cray XT3 Supercomputer
The Cray XT3 supercomputer is the third generation MPP system from Cray,
purpose-built to offer scientists and engineers an HPC system that delivers
exceptional sustained application performance to handle their most
challenging problems. The Cray XT3 supercomputer's high speed 3D torus
interconnect, x86 64-bit AMD Opteron™ processors, high speed global I/O,
and advanced MPP operating system are designed to ensure that applications
scale steadily from 200 to more than 30,000 processors without performance
losses from communications bottlenecks, asynchronous processing or memory
access delays.
About Altair Engineering, Inc.
Through product design consulting, advanced engineering software and HPC
technologies, Altair increases innovation for clients around the globe.
Founded in 1985 and now with offices in 12 countries, Altair's knowledge
and expertise in product development and manufacturing extend throughout
North America, Europe and Asia. As the developer of Altair HyperWorks®,
the company is a leading provider of high-end, open CAE software for
modeling, visualization, optimization and process automation. Altair's PBS
Professional grid computing software is a workload management solution for
HPC environments, Linux clusters and desktop cycle harvesting. Go to
www.altair.com for more information.
About Cray Inc.
As the global leader in HPC, Cray provides innovative supercomputing
systems that enable scientists and engineers in government, industry and
academia to meet both existing and future computational challenges.
Building on years of experience in designing, developing, marketing and
servicing the world's most advanced supercomputers, Cray offers a
comprehensive portfolio of HPC systems that deliver unrivaled sustained
performance on a wide range of applications. Go to www.cray.com for more
information.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. There are certain
factors that could cause Cray's execution plans to differ materially from
those anticipated by the statements above. These include the technical
challenges of developing high-performance computing systems, the successful
porting of application programs to Cray computer systems, reliance on
third-party suppliers, Cray's ability to keep up with rapid technological
change and Cray's ability to compete against larger, more established
companies and innovative competitors. For a discussion of these and other
risks, see "Factors That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray's most recent
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC.
Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray XT3, Cray XD1 and Cray X1E are
trademarks, of Cray Inc. Altair and HyperWorks are registered trademarks,
and PBS Professional is a trademark, of Altair Engineering, Inc. AMD and
AMD Opteron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All other
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