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11 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing— Altair Performance
2.8 Workload Management
Workload management and job scheduling on the Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing
can be handled efficiently with Altair PBS Professional, part of the Altair PBS Works™ suite. PBS
Professional features include policy-based scheduling, OS provisioning, shrink-to-fit jobs, preemption, and
failover. Its topology-aware scheduling optimizes task placement, improving application performance and
reducing network contention. Many applications from Altair and other leading ISV’s incorporate PBS
Professional specific interfaces into their applications to improve the ease of use and performance for these
applications with PBS Professional.