Using HPC to Speed Competitive Advantages
Few industries have experienced more dramatic growth during the last decade than life sciences. And few industries are as highly research and development intensive – from design and testing through clinical trials and process automation. The extensive use of computer simulations used today by the life sciences market can easily stress the upper limits of any high computing solution.
Like other computationally intense industries, the life sciences industry used a mix of high capability and high throughput computing technologies. With the added pressures from significant regulatory, compliance, cost and time constraints, life sciences companies and research institutions are confronted with an array of business challenges, including:
- Align costly and scarce resources to the most promising research
- Match computing resources to business priorities
- Maximize end-user productivity
- Protect intellectual property
- Control the growing complexity of systems and applications
Meeting these demanding goals requires high performance computing systems and powerful software tools. Investments in high performance computing don’t just save time and money. They allow life sciences researchers and companies to investigate more drug design options, more easily and more quickly – and to get new medical devices and pharmaceuticals to market sooner and safer.
Bioinformatics and computational chemistry applications demand massive computing resources over long periods of time. PBS Professional’s ability to detect node failure and automatically reschedule interrupted jobs or restart aborted jobs.
PBS Professional enables more efficient use of software licenses and hardware, and gives scientists a simple access process. The Job Arrays feature enables bioinformatics users to submit and manage the highest job counts as a single unit – helping researcher run more models more productively.
With HPC workload optimization solutions from PBS Works, life sciences researchers shorten design times, lower infrastructure costs and maximize the utilization of HPC systems used for in silico drug screening, clinical simulations or bioinformatics. PBS Professional’s scheduling and resource reservation capabilities ensures engineers get fair-share access to computing resources and to pre-empt access priority for urgent projects.
Making high performance computing highly productive – whether through simplified management or intuitive graphical interfaces – is one of today’s most important challenges.
PBS Catalyst was designed to meet the critical need for a simplified management and end-user productivity. PBS Catalyst simplifies the management of distributed, often complex server and application configurations.
Using a simple web browser interface, administrators can install and configure one or multiple PBS complexes. Policies can be created, modified and applied to one or several compute complexes. Many administrative tasks – for one or multipe PBS complexes - can be performed from a single management console.
Sites using PBS Catalyst can create application specific ‘portals’ that maximize end-user productivity while ensuring resources are used efficiently.
Because workloads have become much larger and more complex than ever before, comprehensive and robust analysis and visualization features are needed to help ensure limited computing resources are being used effectively and efficiently.
PBS Analytics is a easy to use data analysis and visualization solution that provides PBS Works administrators with advanced job and license analyses to support data-driven planning and decision making.
PBS Works partners with the brightest application vendors within the life sciences market, including: