1. Altair‘s Compute Manager: Your Gateway to
HPC Cloud Computing with PBS Professional
Innovation Intelligence® October, 2012
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2. “Our vision is to radically change
the way organizations design
products and make decisions.”
– James R. Scapa, Chairman & CEO, Altair

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Overview
Founded ... $212M
In 1985 as a product design consulting company
Today ...
A global software, services & technology leader
$100M
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85 11

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Innovation Intelligence®
25+ 40+ 1500+
Years of Innovation Offices in 18 Countries Employees Worldwide

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Customers
Automotive Aerospace Heavy Equipment Government Life/Earth Sciences Consumer Goods Energy
3,200+ customers worldwide

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Altair’s Brands and Companies
Engineering Workload Management and Product Innovation
Simulation Platform Cloud Computing Solutions Consulting
Industrial Design Business Intelligence & Solid State Lighting
Technology Data Analytics Solutions Products

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Altair Enterprise Solutions Value
Natural Novel Enjoyable Affordable
User First Enterprise Freshness Human Centric To the Cloud
Not bounding but visual Always use the latest Use hardware to automate as Licensing based on
and user-friendly information much as you can User Value
Each user should have Aggregate data and adapt to Computer works, Software as a Service,
his or her “natural” personal behavior human chooses not on Infrastructure
Point of View

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Compute Manager: Overview
Run, Monitor & Manage HPC Jobs on Distributed Resources
• Setup PBS Professional jobs on
distributed resources with easily
configurable applications definitions
• Monitor PBS Professional jobs
on distributed resources, both
graphically and analytically
• Manage PBS Professional jobs,
visualize remote data and results

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HyperWorks Enterprise Foundation
• Platform for hosting various domain-specific services
• Powered by PBS Professional
Web Clients Enterprise Foundation Enterprise “Cloud”
Submission Application
Management Services (PAS)
Authorization Results
Authentication Visualization

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Compute Manager: Summary
• Web interface built on Google Web
Toolkit Technology
• No computer science degree
necessary!
• Enhanced security level
• Highly configurable and extensible
• Remote file browsing

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Compute Manager: Features
Job Submission
• Submit jobs to clusters managed
by PBS Professional using
PBS Application Services (PAS)
• Use PAS Application Definition
technology to easily define
applications for job submission
• Save commonly used application
and application inputs as profiles
• Drag and drop files from the
Remote File Browser directly
onto applications

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Compute Manager: Features
Job Monitoring
• List a nearly real-time display
of all currently running jobs
• Filter and group jobs easily to
better clarify the monitoring output
• View / edit job files either prior to
job submission or during job
execution (runtime)

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Compute Manager: Features
Reviewing Results
• View text and html results files
in the intuitive File Viewer
• Visualize results in a variety
of different formats using any
third-party plug-in supported
by the Web browser (e.g. PDF,
video, Static images)

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Compute Manager: Features
Reviewing Results
• Try out innovative results
diagnostics management viewing
interactive XY plots in a Web
browser(1)
• Visualize 3D results using Altair’s
HyperView Player plug-in(2)
Note: (1) and (2) released for beta testing and
leverages Altair’s HyperWorks technologies

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Configuration and Adoption
Typical areas of configuration & customization
• Application definitions
• RADIOSS
• OptiStruct
• Nastran
• Ls-Dyna
• Abaqus
• Etc.
• Authentication / Authorization
• Custom actions
• Results visualization
• Solver diagnostics log file readers
• Results readers
• Plot templates
• Animation templates

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Benefits
Modular, bottom-up approach
• No barrier to entry
• Use components you need, integrate where you choose
Applied to specific domain knowledge
• Each App addresses the needs of a specific use case
• Easy to build additional apps addressing other use cases
Low cost of ownership
• Very limited implementation cost
• Value-Based HyperWorks Licensing System
Cloud-enabled
• Ready to be implemented in private / public clouds
• Supports advanced results visualization techniques

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HyperWorks On-Demand
High Performance Innovation in the Cloud
Powered by PBS Works and HyperWorks
The easiest way to access the HyperWorks applications on HPC resources
Innovative business model, leveraging the Altair licensing system
Brings together Altair’s platform, infrastructure and application solutions

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Altair Knows HPC
Altair is the only company that…
makes HPC Tools
develop HPC Apps
500 Altair engineers worldwide
and uses HPC Apps!
use HPC every day for
real-world modeling
& simulation

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Competitive Differentiation
• Powerful business model with unmatched customer value
• Depth and breadth of the overall solution set
• Market defining optimization technologies
• Unparalleled performance and measurability
• Unique ability to leverage high-end services
to drive next generation solutions
• Strong global organization that can meet
the needs of the most demanding customers
worldwide
No other vendor offers the completeness
or robustness of the Altair solution set