Why PBS Professional? • Proven for over 20 years • Thousands of customers worldwide • Voted #1 HPC Software by HPCWire readers • Built by HPC people for HPC people — Altair Knows HPC • Million-core scalability and end-to-end resilience • Flexible plugin framework to meet complex requirements with ease • Unparalleled security with EAL3+ certification and support for SELinux • Fast, powerful scheduling with power and topology awareness and GPU / Xeon Phi support • Global support with local experts in 48 offices across 22 countries "PBS beat the competition in both performance and flexibility... Altair really knows HPC." - NCI "The product's flexibility, and the company's expertise and support, is simply unparalleled."” — Fujitsu "Around $200,000 in energy savings per year.” — US Army (RDECOM) "Altair's expertise and dedication to success is unbeatable.” — Weizmann Institute PBS Works is a division of £> Altair PBS Professional® Industry-leading HPC workload management and job scheduling The trusted leader in high-performance computing (HPC) workload management, PBS Professional efficiently schedules HPC workloads across all forms of computing infrastructure. Easily scaling to support systems of any size - from clusters to the largest supercomputers - PBS Professional ensures you receive the maximum value from your hardware and software investments. Customers choose PBS Professional to: • Improve performance with a fast, powerful, reliable workload manager • Reduce costs by optimizing hardware, software and power use • Get first-rate technical support with personal, one-on-one attention • Maximize user productivity and ensure SLAs are met • Ensure cloud readiness with a product proven for public and private clouds • Gain peace of mind with an established commercial leader known for excellent service and customer care New in 13.0: • Million-core scalability - tested to 50,000+ nodes • Fast, reliable startup of huge MPI jobs -tested at tens of thousands of MPI ranks; minimizes delays caused by faulty nodes • Fast throughput - supports 1,000,000+ jobs per day • cgroups eliminate resource contention - jobs run faster and don't interfere with each other or the OS* • Comprehensive health check framework monitors your health check script behavior - either checks run or node is marked down • Expanded hook events for even more plugin extensibility and customization • More policy controls to better match your business needs • Simplify HPC and cluster administration • Ensure the highest level of security -only PBS Pro offers EAL3+ certification and SELinux/MLS support • Gain the flexibility to meet complex custom requirements • Implement business priorities by ensuring the most important jobs run first and complete on time • Reduce risk by minimizing - and automatically recovering from -hardware failures • Expanded scheduling priority formula with full math functions (e.g., sqrt(), ceil(), ...), conditional expressions, and a threshold for job start eligibility • Fine-grained targeting for preemption, configurable at the queue level (admin controlled) • General fairshare formula enables accruals per-Q, license sharing, time-of-day, power use, even combinations of these • Expanded support: Intel MPI and MPICH2 on Windows; UNC paths for stdin, stdout, and file staging on Windows; SLES 12 and RHEL7 • Custom resources can be created directly using qmgr, without the need to restart the

Key Features & Benefits • Shrink-to-fit jobs boost utilization, especially before planned system outages - one supercomputing center recovered 800,000+ idle CPU hours in just a few months • GPU / co-processor scheduling prioritizes use and manages access to all types of accelerators (nVidia, AMD) as well as the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor • Estimated job start times enable you to plan your workflows and meet deadlines • Backfill TopN scheduling eliminates wasted cycles without delaying top priority work • Dynamic provisioning automatically changes OS to match changing workload demands • Submission...