Altair

Altair Accelerator^TM Overview

Industry’s Fastest Enterprise Job Scheduler with Event-driven Architecture for Highest Throughput and High-Performance Hierarchical Scheduling

Accelerator is an enterprise grade job scheduler designed for distributed High-Performance-Computing (HPC) environments. As a highly adaptable solution, it is capable of managing compute infrastructures from small dedicated server farms to complex distributed HPC environments.

The Plus package of Accelerator (Accelerator Plus) also includes a hierarchical scheduler architected to off-load the base scheduler, enabling greater throughput, better license and resource utilization, and more flexible scheduler usage models.

Benefits for Designers

• Sub-second latency for best performance and user experience
• Full Visibility into key job resources (CPU, memory & license)

Added benefits with the Plus package:
• Exclusive access to “private” scheduler, allows “self-directed” flows
• High throughput for highly parallel workloads of uniform short jobs

Benefits for the Infrastructure

• Scalable small footprint architecture for best resource utilization
• Customizable alerts and notifications
• Fast restart without impacting running jobs

Added benefits with the Plus package:
• Flexible usage models (on-demand, workload, project)
• 6-10X higher throughput without adding compute capacity

Benefits for Management

• High capacity scalable architecture capable of scheduling billions of jobs per day
• Manage organizational priorities with comprehensive policy management features

Added benefits with the Plus package:
• Improved license management
• Fairshare and Preemption
• Global policy and license management