United Devices Announces Collaboration with Altair Engineering to Ensure Interoperability of Products; Users of PBS Professional and HPC Synergy to Benefit.

AUSTIN, Texas -- United Devices (UD) announced today collaboration with Altair Engineering to further enhance integration of UD's HPC Synergy(TM) metascheduling product with Altair's PBS Professional(TM) workload management software solution. E[acute accent]UD's HPC Synergy provides virtualized management of an enterprise's entire infrastructure. It is the leading solution for managing job scheduling across heterogeneous, widely distributed enterprise resources -- including clusters operated by third party resource managers such as Altair Engineering's PBS Professional, Platform LSF, Sun SGE, IBM LoadLeveler, Condor and UD's own Grid MP. E[acute accent]"United Devices is pleased that an industry leader like Altair has embraced HPC Synergy as one of its standards for metascheduling," said Jikku Venkat, chief technology officer at UD. "These are two companies that always put their customers' interests first. This collaboration is unquestionably a win-win situation for customers, because it ensures compatibility of an industry-leading workload manager with an industry-leading metascheduler." E[acute accent]The companies said they would cooperate in the areas of integration, testing, marketing and support as required by their customers. To improve integration between the products, the companies also will provide each other with technical support and product training. E[acute accent]"This integration will bring increased value and versatility to our mutual customers who want to deploy GridMP and PBS Professional simultaneously," said Michael Humphrey, vice president of Altair's PBS GridWorks business unit. "Altair's continued commitment to an open-systems software philosophy is shared by United Devices, making this collaboration something that will increase productivity." E[acute accent]UD and Altair said today's announcement continues and formalizes a process that began nearly a year ago. During that time, United Devices acquired and integrated an industry-leading metascheduling product that is the basis for HPC Synergy, now used by Fortune 500 customers in manufacturing, life sciences and other industries. E[acute accent]HPC Synergy is capable of directing jobs across multiple clusters and resource groups managed by third-party workload managers like PBS Professional. By using HPC Synergy to oversee such a heterogeneous environment, end users see dramatically improved productivity, maximized utilization of existing machines and schedulers, and increased return on investment for their computing resources. E[acute accent]HPC Synergy provides virtualized access to compute resources through an intuitive environment via a web portal and web service APIs, with jobs optimally executed at runtime. Because of this, end users are relieved of IT considerations and can instead focus their efforts on core competencies.

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E[acute accent]United Devices (UD) provides the most cost-effective and flexible computing capacity available anywhere. The company's grid and infrastructure management solutions address a range of business needs, from traditional application acceleration to enterprise-scale infrastructure virtualization. UD products extend, manage, and optimize IT environments by reducing complexity, leveraging both dedicated and non-dedicated resources and establishing centralized control. UD solutions are proven to enhance innovation and reduce total cost of ownership for companies in a wide range of industries including Manufacturing, Energy, Life Sciences, Government, and Telecommunications. Find out more at www.ud.com.