11:00 am - 11:30 am | Future of Altair® PBS Professional® and Altair® Liquid Scheduling™

Scott Campbell, Program Manager HPC, Altair

Liquid Scheduling is our new workload management technology that takes PBS Professional to the next level. It is faster, more scalable, and more resilient than anything seen in HPC previously. Liquid Scheduling catapults the Altair HPCWorks solution into a bigger more connected world of HPC, AI, and cloud. It is able to handle larger workloads and more compute than ever before by breaking down silos and uniting multiple HPC clusters, while improving user experience and system utilization. I'll be digging into what makes this solution unique. The best part is that your users don't need to change a thing about their applications or workflows; they simply flow to the right place with Liquid Scheduling. 

11:30 am - 12:00 pm | The Future of HPC is Here with Google Cloud

Annie Ma-Weaver, Group Product Manager, Google Cloud HPC, Google

Learn how to make your HPC workloads run smoothly, easily and efficiently on Google Cloud using products and solutions built by Google and our HPC partners.

1:30 pm -2:00 pm | Gateway Appliances

Rick Watkins, VP Cloud and Appliance Solutions, Altair

Altair’s HPC Gateway Appliance combines AI-ready data management, a superior user interface and cloud connectivity to any HPC environment – on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid.  Built on secure, stable S3-compatible storage and a Kubernetes architecture, this platform brings the revolutionary Altair One® experience to all users, all environments and all applications.

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Unraveling Legacy Custom Altair PBS Professional – An ASRC Customer Case Study

Jason Blair, HPC Technical Fellow, ASRC Federal

At a customer site, ASRC staff delved into their historic use of PBS Professional to better understand how to implement the newest version available. This presentation covers the work the team did in reviewing to the past to best plan for the future.

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Empowering Altair tools to accelerate end-to-end CAE workflows using NVIDIA technologies

Bhoomi Gadhia, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, NVIDIA

Today’s computer-aided engineering (CAE) workflow truly needs to be accelerated in order to achieve sustainable product designs and faster time-to-market. We will go through the typical CAE workflow and how NVIDIA technologies accelerate the entire CAE workflow for Altair. By leveraging the high-performance computing capabilities of NVIDIA Grace and Grace-hopper Altair is able to achieve transformative results. This talk will introduce NVIDIA’s portfolio of technologies for CAE workflow acceleration. We will also highlight the importance of interactive visualization for CAE and how Altair is able to achieve it for its customers.

3:00 pm - 03:30 pm | Altair® NavOps®: Centralized Cloud Operations at Scale

Ian Littlewood, Vice President, HPCWorks Tools, Altair

Ensuring that cloud scaling is directly aligned to your business needs is critical to the success of HPC cloud. Centralizing cloud operations for all your WLMs, clusters and clouds gives central visibility of your costs and control of budgets. Join us to see how the power of Altair’s Automation Engine can make cloud HPC successful and controlled so you deliver the right business value aligned with your budgets.

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Scaling New Heights in HPC: Altair LQS Breakthrough in Multi-Site and Multi-Cluster Resilient Workload Management

Paul Hiew, Deputy Director, Technical Operation & Muhammad Teguh Satria, Senior Assistant Director, Tech Ops - System, National Supercomputing Centre Singapore

As high-performance computing (HPC) grows to encompass HPC, high-throughput computing (HTC), and AI workloads, the demands for specialized systems for each use case often lead to isolated, siloed infrastructures. These silos create increased complexity in workload management, resource utilization, and load balancing, ultimately constraining operational efficiency. Altair® Liquid Scheduling™ (LQS) offers a groundbreaking solution by unifying workload management across multiple servers and sites through PBS Pro, with adaptive load balancing, fair-share scheduling, and a distributed resilience framework to dynamically manage diverse workloads. In this session, NSCC, Singapore shares their experience as a beta tester of LQS, providing insights into deploying this innovative scheduling technology across multiple demo sites. We discuss how LQS’s robust architecture efficiently manages peak user demand, enabling rapid job submissions and queries without sacrificing performance, and how this seamless approach drives greater flexibility and scalability across complex computing landscapes.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Accelerating Altair Compute Intensive Workloads with Next-Gen AMD EPYC CPUs

Rick Knoechel, Global Strategy Lead – Automotive and Discrete Manufacturing, AMD

Computational assists for tasks like fluid flow analysis, impact analysis and electromagnetic analysis are essential to modern product development. But they still take time. Cutting down the time it takes to model products increases safety, delivers better products, and allows engineers the flexibility to be creative. Altair AcuSove, Altair Radioss, and Altair Feko model the physical world. AMD EPYC next-gen CPUs supercharge them, saving you time.

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Altair PBS Professional at Argonne National Laboratory: AI and Exa and IRI, oh my!

Bill Allcock, ALCF Director of Operations, Argonne National Laboratory

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) provides scientists from around the world with extreme scale computing resources.  ALCF has standardized on the use of PBSPro across our systems.  Come learn about our experience with PBSPro on Aurora, the fastest AI machine in the Top500, on the various accelerators in our AI testbed and in our on-demand, no human-in-the-loop automated processing of data from other DOE data facilities such as the Advanced Photon Source.

11:00 am - 11:30 am | Moving from Slurm to Altair® PBS Professional®

Jacob Riley, HPC Systems Administrator, Alabama Supercomputer Center

During this presentation we will cover the reasoning behind our shift from Slurm to PBS Professional, the process that we took to transfer our queue manager to PBS Professional, differences we experience in administration after the switch, and finally the state of the cluster after transitioning.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Advances in Benchmarking and Resource Orchestration with Altair and Azure

Marco Netto, Senior Technical Program Manager, Microsoft

Benchmarking and resource orchestration are essential for optimizing HPC workloads in the cloud. Benchmarking guides cost-efficient resource allocation, while orchestration ensures easy access to compute resources. Discover how Altair and Microsoft Azure collaborate to enhance these processes.

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Evaluating Altair® Radioss® and Altair® AcuSolve® Performance on AMD 5th Generation EPYC Processors (“Turin”) on Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers

Kevin Dean, HPC Performance & CAE Segment Architect, Lenovo

High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are evolving rapidly, and with this growth comes significant challenges. One challenge is balancing computational performance with sustainable power consumption. The next generation of AMD EPYC processors showcase promising increases in core performance and power efficiency. Learn how Lenovo is evaluating Altair Radioss and Altair AcuSolve performance on these processors in our ThinkSystem Servers to meet our customers’ performance and infrastructure needs. 

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Intersection of HPC and AI/ML

Scott Campbell, Program Manager HPC, Altair

HPC has evolved to include a large number of AI workloads running alongside HPC or in neighbouring compute pools. What can we do to ensure the efficient running of these two world without compromising on platform specialization or efficiency? A key part of that is container support, GPUs support, as well as tighter integration with popular AI tools in Access and PBS Professional. I'll be talking about what we do at Altair to provide for the hybrid HPC and AI environments including our PBS-Kubernetes connector which lets you share resources between Kubernetes and PBS Professional clusters. I will also talk about some of the innovations we have coming out that use AI to better provision HPC resources.

3:00 pm - 03:30 pm | Altair One: Gateway to a Digital Enterprise

Bill Bryce, Sr. Vice President, Product Management, Altair

As the pace of innovation accelerates, Engineers, Researchers and Scientists need to create intelligent digital models that combine Simulation, High Performance Computing and AI into sophisticated Digital Twins.  With Altair One, organizations can Scale Out, Scale Up, Collaborate/Visualize & Organize: Anywhere, on Any Cloud, for Any Workload, at any Scale.

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Altair® InsightPro™: Easy to use scalable and centralized reporting for all your Altair-Managed Environments

Ian Littlewood, Vice President, HPCWorks Tools, Altair

InsightPro provides an easy-to-use interface to make HPC analytics accessible to customers of Altair’s workload managers via a single-pane-of-glass. Whatever your scale of operations we provide easy to use operational reporting, insight into patterns of usage and deep dives into workload, issues and efficiencies. Ensure you’re getting the maximum value from your HPC and cloud operations through Altair InsightPro.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Unlocking Innovation with Intel® Xeon® 6th Generation Scalable Processors and Altair Technology

Ronak Singhal, Senior Fellow & Chief Architect, Xeon Roadmap & Technology Leadership, Intel

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Altair® OpenRadioss™ on the latest Arm architecture silicon

Conrad Hillairet, Staff HPC Engineer, Arm

What could AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure and Nvidia have in common? All of them have developed silicon based on Arm Neoverse technologies to address cloud and HPC workloads. The Arm HPC ecosystem is thriving. In this presentation we will discuss the status and the performance of Altair® OpenRadioss™ on the latest Arm-based processors.