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"Releasing PBS Professional on the SX Series model SX-8 is an important milestone toward our goal to make PBS Professional ubiquitous within the high- performance computing (HPC) community," said Michael Humphrey, vice president of Altair's PBS GridWorks business unit. "PBS Professional technology includes industry-leading scalability, availability and resiliency capabilities, as shown by our strong presence in the TOP 500 Super Computers list. We anticipate PBS Professional will be a very popular solution with NEC SX-8 customers who want to integrate their SX-8 systems with other systems running PBS Professional." "NEC is pleased to extend our relationship with Altair to include PBS Professional support for the SX-8 platform," said Takayuki Sasakura, general manager of the HPC Marketing Promotion Division of NEC. "Customers have asked NEC to work with Altair to make PBS Professional available on the SX-8. They want to integrate their SX-8 with heterogeneous systems and have PBS Professional manage their entire workload across this virtual resource pool. NEC has an excellent reputation for delivering what our customers need. Providing industry-leading PBS Professional for the SX-8 is an example of NEC's commitment to our customers." NEC has distributed the SX Series model SX-8, the world's most powerful vector supercomputer since October 2004. The SX-8 delivers a peak vector performance of 65 TFLOPS (in the case of SX-8/4096M512). With its dedicated CPUs, large-scale memory and high data-transfer rate between memory and CPUs, it achieves a higher speed of computation as the simulation models that it handles become larger. Compared with scalar computers with a number of general-purpose CPUs, the SX-8 realizes extremely high performance, particularly in simulation analyses of various automotive performances, meteorological forecasting and environmental simulations. PBS Professional is an open workload management solution for HPC environments. The software maximizes the utilization of computing resources by intelligently scheduling and managing computational workload in a number of industries. By increasing the efficiency of the hardware and software resources, PBS Professional reduces total cost of ownership and provides true business value to grid computing customers. NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. Ranked as one of the world's top patent-producing companies, NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation.