RCE 115: PBS Professional
Channel: Research Computing and Engineering
Date: 2021-01-29

Recorded 8/2017
https://www.rce-cast.com/Podcast/rce-115-pbs-professional.html


 Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Dr. Bill Nitzberg about PBS Professional. PBS Pro software optimizes job scheduling and workload management in high-performance computing (HPC) environments – clusters, clouds, and supercomputers – improving system efficiency and people’s productivity. Built by HPC people for HPC people, PBS Pro is fast, scalable, secure, and resilient, and supports all modern infrastructure, middleware, and applications. In June 2016, PBS Pro was released under a dual-licensing model, and is now available both commercially licensed and under an OSI-approved open source license.

Dr. Bill Nitzberg is the CTO of PBS Works at Altair and “acting” community manager for the PBS Pro Open Source Project (www.pbspro.org). With over 25 years in the computer industry, spanning commercial software development to high-performance computing research, Dr. Nitzberg is an internationally recognized expert in parallel and distributed computing. Dr. Nitzberg served on the board of the Open Grid Forum, co-architected NASA’s Information Power Grid, edited the MPI-2 I/O standard, and has published numerous papers on distributed shared memory, parallel I/O, PC clustering, job scheduling, and cloud computing. When not focused on HPC, Bill tries to improve his running economy for his long-distance running adventures.