Building a PBS Professional Virtual Test Cluster with Ubuntu

Developed to meet the demands of AI and analytics, NVIDIA® DGX™ Systems are built on the revolutionary NVIDIA Volta™ GPU platform. Combined with innovative GPU-optimized software and simplified management tools, in addition to the industry-leading PBS Professional workload manager and job scheduler, these fully integrated solutions deliver groundbreaking performance and results.

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Because it isn’t always convenient to explore software in a production environment, Altair PBS Professional has many features that allow users to simulate huge computing node environments on relatively simple, inexpensive hardware. This document explains how to set up a virtual test cluster with CentOS or SLES.

The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), established in 1961, is one of the seven oldest Indian Institutes of Technology. Its mission is to contribute to India and to the world through excellence in scientific and technical education and research, and its 320-acre campus hosts its own high-performance computing (HPC) resources including the “PADUM” hybrid supercomputer. In 2020 IIT Delhi allocated dedicated computational resources to COVID-19 research projects including drug repurposing, molecular modeling, and pathogen movement. To support their HPC system, the team at IIT Delhi needed a commercial workload manager. They also needed support and customization to implement scheduling requirements, queue policies, and system fine-tuning, as well as a simple but fully functional user interface. The Altair® PBS Professional® workload manager satisfied all their requirements.

Fujistu is an Altair global authorized reseller, offering PBS Professional on all Fujitsu PRIMEHPC systems. The PRIMEHPC series is equipped with the same A64FX CPU used in the supercomputer Fugaku, developed by Fujitsu and Japan’s leading research institute, RIKEN. The integrated solution improves productivity for Fujitsu users seeking practical and efficient HPC solutions.

NEC is an Altair global authorized reseller, offering Altair® PBS Professional® on NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA systems. The SX-Aurora TSUBASA architecture is built on NEC’s Vector Engine (VE), integrated transparently into the Linux software environment for top application performance. Each VE integrates 8 or 10 vector cores and 48GB of high-bandwidth memory for peak performance up to 3.07 teraflops, giving scientists and engineers real value with performance, usability, and efficiency.

Developed to meet the needs of demanding high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics workloads, NVIDIA® DGX™ systems are built on the revolutionary NVIDIA A100 and V100 Tensor Core GPU platforms with GPU-optimized software and tools including workload management and job scheduling by the industry-leading Altair® PBS Professional® workload orchestration solution.