Helping academic users access immense computing resources without the immense costs
At leading academic institutions around the world, researchers are pushing the boundaries of knowledge. While computing power has advanced dramatically during the last fifty years, academic researchers need high performance computing to keep pace with rapidly changing requirements.
Scientists need world-class computing resources to solve complex problems, from identifying the optical effects of the jet stream over observatories to finding breakthroughs in chemical physics that will deliver a new generation of green materials and products, and understanding how climate changes will affect the coastal regions of China.
Solving these challenging problems requires immense computing power. It also requires powerful tools that help academic institutions take full advantage of their computational resources – allowing students, faculty and researchers have ability to pursue, explore and solve urgent problems using high performance computing.
PBS Professional -- the foundation for all PBS Works solutions -- is the de facto standard for managing high performance computing resources. PBS Professional allows for increased utilization of costly computing resources and a consistent, easy-to-use policy engine with a single-point of management control.
The value of PBS Professional goes beyond simply lowering costs through better resource utilization or improved availability. PBS Professional ensures academic institutions get the most from their HPC computing resources. Researchers can match their computing requirements to the best computing platforms using commercially proven scheduling – including metascheduling - and resource management tools. And administrators can reduce IT-driven energy use – and lower costs using PBS Professional’s Green Provisioning [MARK] and node provisioning features.
And, it gives researchers a simple, but powerful user interface across all computing resources -- from SMP servers running LINUX or workgroup clusters running Windows HPC Server to the largest and most powerful supercomputers.
Pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge is challenging. To help academic institutions meet this important challenge the PBS Works division continues to provide software license grants for qualifying institutions as they push the boundaries of science and engineering.
Educational Grant Information
If you have not previously submitted an application or made a purchase, you may apply for a grant by completing the
PBS Professional Application Grant form.
If you are already an educational or academic customer, or have already submitted a grant application, you can complete the
PBS Professional Educational Grant Renewal form.