Accelerating Breakthrough Timelines in Life Sciences
The importance of accelerating research timelines in life sciences has been front and center amid COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s made possible by high-performance computing. In this roundtable, HPC experts will discuss how they provide scientists with cost-effective compute at the scale required to support life sciences workloads, minimizing disruption to end users while managing some of the world’s most critical datasets in the cloud.
Topics will include:
- HPC for accelerating pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare consumer goods workloads
- Kubernetes and containers and their impact on life sciences workflows
- Application support including integration with NextFlow, SnakeMake, Singularity and more
- Navigating the cloud landscape: cost optimization, security, support
- Workload optimization including for migration: job level I/O monitoring for maximum efficiency and utilization, dependency analysis for heterogeneous cluster automation
Conference Presentations
Altair HPC: Scaling for the Future
The massive exploration of ideas through computational science and artificial intelligence is fueled by high-performance computing. In the cloud, on-premises, at the edge, and everywhere in between, explore the HPC technology maximizing HPC throughput and utilization for breakthrough results.
Conference Presentations
HPC & Cloud Solutions for Life Sciences
Top-performing life sciences organizations strike the right balance between flexibility for end users and robust, supported, scalable infrastructure for IT stakeholders. Johnson & Johnson’s Martin Dellwo, RCH Solutions’s Phil Eschallier, and Altair’s Bill Bryce outline how to build and manage a scalable, flexible, automated, cloud-agnostic, multi-cluster, heterogeneous HPC environment in this live webinar, followed by a Q&A.
Webinars
Where to Begin: HPC and Cloud Computing Models for Engineers
In this session, cloud expert Rick Watkins presents three actionable HPC and cloud models designed to optimize innovation potential and longtime ROI, whether your team is small and nimble or maintains its own large compute infrastructure. Engineers interested in boosting performance with HPC will come away with an understanding of what HPC and cloud model could be right for them – as well as a high-level appreciation for the critical role that IT infrastructure optimization plays in maintaining your team’s competitive edge, and all the complexity involved in making appear simple.
Future.Industry 2021
Data Discipline: Managing Engineering Data for AI-powered Design
The advancements in the fields of AI and ML, combined with the increased availability of robust simulation, testing, and field data sets has made engineering data science a critical component of the modern product development lifecycle, but in order to extract maximum value from these exciting tools, companies need a plan to store, manage, and utilize their data efficiently. They need data discipline
Technical Document
Silicon Design in the Cloud: Mellanox Scales Up EDA Cluster Capacity With On-demand Hybrid Cloud
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Half the world’s top 500 fastest supercomputers employ Mellanox solutions including high-performance network and multicore processors, network adapters, switches, cables, software, and silicon.
Mellanox needed a robust cluster management and scheduling solution from a trusted partner, leveraging hybrid cloud. In assessing potential solutions, the Mellanox team analyzed performance, features, and costs, ultimately selecting Altair NavOps™ and Altair® Grid Engine®, proven solutions that offered the shortest implementation effort with leading price/performance metrics. Navops Launch seamlessly enabled Mellanox’s existing on-premises infrastructure and workflows to encompass the cloud.
Customer Stories
Wharton School Scales Up HPC: High-performance Computing Upgrade Extends Research to the Cloud
Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is known for leadership and innovation in business education. Staying on top as a leader among world-class business schools necessitates an HPC infrastructure that can support a vast number of users.
Wharton needed to extend its HPC environment in a cost-effective way — without impacting its large roster of users, who need ready access to the latest tools, infrastructure, and technical expertise. Since Wharton was already using Altair® Grid Engine® as its go-to solution for HPC job management, the team looked to Altair NavOps™, software designed for organizations experiencing increasing volumes of high-priority workloads, where response speed and accuracy is critical.
Customer Stories
Managing TCO in HPC Hybrid Cloud Environments
Enabled by improvements in security, new instance types, and fast interconnects, high-performance computing (HPC) users are increasingly shifting workloads to the cloud. With cloud usage increasing, however, managing and containing costs is a growing concern. As organizations become more reliant on cloud, they are also concerned with staying portable and flexible, and avoiding lock-in to a single cloud ecosystem or provider.
In this paper, we make a case for HPC hybrid cloud and explain how operators can manage total cost of ownership (TCO) more effectively. We present a simple TCO model that can help users estimate the cost of hybrid cloud deployments and describe various Altair solutions that can help organizations quickly and cost-effectively implement private and hybrid multi-cloud HPC environments. Using our TCO model, we illustrate how Altair cloud automation and spend management solutions such as Altair® Control™ and Altair® NavOps® can boost productivity and reduce cloud-related expenses while delivering a compelling return on investment (ROI).
White Papers
Altair NavOps for Cloud Automation and Spend Management
Altair® NavOps® is an automation and spend management platform for migrating compute-intensive HPC workloads to the cloud. It provides organizations with insights into spending against budgets and end-to-end visibility into HPC cloud resources and applications. Using NavOps, enterprises can easily deploy hybrid and dedicated cloud clusters running Altair® Grid Engine® or other workload managers.
Brochures
The Wharton School Powers World-changing Research with Altair HPC
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world’s most prominent business schools, depends on Altair Grid Engine and Altair NavOps to run a powerful, scalable and future-proof HPC infrastructure that enables researchers to focus on their core work.
Customer Stories
Powering Drug Discovery – HPC at Johnson & Johnson Supports Critical Pharmaceutical Development
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, created the 1-dose COVID-19 vaccine that’s preventing infection and saving lives in 100+ countries around the world. When Janssen needed the right HPC management software for its cloud-based infrastructure, we upgraded the company's workload management software to Altair® Grid Engine® and deployed Altair® NavOps® to manage their complex cloud deployments — a solution that seamlessly integrated with AWS cloud services. The result was a simplified, automated, and extensible HPC infrastructure.
Customer Stories
Six Smarter Scheduling Techniques for Optimizing EDA Productivity
Semiconductor firms rely on software tools for all phases of the chip design process, from system-level design to logic simulation and physical layout. Given the enormous investment in tools, design talent, and infrastructure, even minor improvements in server farm efficiency can significantly impact the bottom line. As a result, verification engineers and IT managers are constantly looking for new sources of competitive advantage.
Workload management plays a crucial role in helping design teams share limited resources, boost simulation throughput, and maximize productivity. In this paper, we discuss six valuable techniques to help improve design center productivity.
White Papers