Press Release

Companies Showcase their Integrated Solutions at Supercomputing 2017

DENVER, Colorado – November 14, 2017 – Altair Engineering Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced its collaboration with Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) to offer HPC users a seamlessly integrated solution. QxSmart HPC/DL, QCT’s best-in-class infrastructure, combined with PBS Professional, Altair’s industry leading workload manager and job scheduler, will provide a scalable cluster architecture with outstanding performance.

“QCT has been a long-time solution supplier for high-performance computing and we embrace synergistic knowledge in our DNA to extend our solutions to the HPC market for application profiling and optimization,” said Mike Yang, President of QCT.  “As HPC expands across a diverse range of fields, QCT remains committed to collaborating and working with Altair, who provides the industry’s leading workload management and job scheduling for high-performance computing environments, PBS Professional.  We believe the pairing of both of our company’s proven technology will provide our mutual clients with more reliable, more efficient, and more intelligent solutions.”

 QxSmart delivers optimized applications with pre-validated common open-source and commercial tools to simplify software deployment and management.  The QxSmart solution is a fast and reliable way to build an HPC/Deep Learning environment across many industries, reducing the time of provisioning a cluster deployment. With QxSmart, QCT meets the data-intensive, computational, and complex large dataset characteristics of today’s HPC workloads.

“Altair is delighted to be QCT’s preferred workload manager,” said Sam Mahalingam, Chief Technical Officer of Altair. “We believe our collaboration can greatly benefit our common customers, giving them the opportunity to confidently improve the speed and quality of their business operations.”

PBS Professional is a fast, powerful workload manager designed to improve productivity, optimize utilization & efficiency, and simplify administration for HPC clusters, clouds and supercomputers. PBS Professional automates job scheduling, management, monitoring and reporting, and is the trusted solution for complex Top500 systems as well as smaller cluster owners.

To learn more about PBS Professional and QxSmart HPC/DL, visit Altair at booth #1117 and QCT at booth #1069 at SC17 from November 13-17 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO.