Keeping HPC affordable and cost effective has always been a key requirement of high performance computing. Recently, energy conservation and minimizing operating costs have become increasingly important factors shaping how and how much HPC resources are used today.
Data centers are growing at a tremendous rate, but energy costs are quickly becoming a proportionally higher part of most IT operations budgets. Recently the market research firm IDC reported that the cost to power and manage data centers doubled from 1996 to 2008. Furthermore, according to Gartner, another IT research firm, nearly 50% of all IT budgets were allocated to energy use during 2008. Today, energy costs – to power and cool systems and data centers – consume the largest percentage of operational budgets.
PBS Professional’s Green Provisioning can monitor, shutdown and restart your HPC systems based on your requirements. Validated by several large scale customers, Green Provisioning has lowered their energy use by up to 20%.
Scalable and resilient to support thousands of compute nodes and limitless jobs, PBS Works allows companies to benefit from flexible, reliable and cost-effective HPC solutions.