Altair is pleased to announce Release and General Availability of PBS Professional Version 7.1


Altair has now released PBS Professional Version 7.1. A summary of new features added to PBS Professional Version 7.1 is listed below:

PBS Professional now supports Job Arrays. Job Arrays is a mechanism for grouping related work, allowing the user to submit, query, modify and display a set of jobs as a single unit. This new feature is particularly useful for users who submit and manage very large numbers of related jobs.

PBS Professional Version 7.1 provides a higher level of integration with select MPI libraries which result in improved resiliency under a variety of system failure modes. PBS Professional has been able to launch and monitor MPI jobs for many years. This tighter integration within PBS professional V7.1 minimizes the need for manual intervention when a system failure occurs within a set of nodes running a MPI job. PBS Professional V 7.1 includes tighter integration with the following MPI libraries:

• MPICH running on Intel and AMD based Linux clusters
• IBM POE running on IBM POE series systems running AIX
• LAM 7.0
• LAM-MPI 6.5.9
• Hewlet Packards MPI Libraries
• Scali MPI Connect

• PBS Professional port to Open Solaris and AMD Opteron TM processor-based platforms
• Increased resource efficiencies and reduced job turnaround times for heterogeneous HPC infrastructures comprised of SMP systems, clusters and hybrid systems

• Support the SGI's Process Aggregation Groups (PAGG) on Altix systems
• Support for SGI's ProPack 4 for Altix systems
• Integration with SGI's CSA for Altix systems