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Altair Engineering and Scali have reached an agreement to integrate PBS Professional with the Scali Manage solution. The integrated solution allows customers in high performance computing environments to manage their Linux based datacenter infrastructure and server workloads from a single management platform. The agreement also provides co-marketing of the combined product solution. "Our partnership with Scali allows customers to manage their Linux clusters and their workloads with less effort and lower costs," said Mike Humphrey, vice president of Altair's Enterprise Computing business line. "The integrated combination of our products provides a very compelling value proposition for customers who operate heterogeneous data centers." PBS Professional is a workload management solution for grid computing environments, Linux clusters and distributed servers and workstations. The software optimizes the utilization of computing resources by intelligently scheduling and managing computational workload in a number of industries, including energy, financial, government, life sciences, gas and oil, logistics, manufacturing and research. By increasing the efficiency of the hardware and software resources, PBS Professional reduces overall total cost of ownership and provides true business value to grid computing. Scali Manage provides the most complete, integrated and flexible cluster management and monitoring system commercially available. It includes comprehensive tools for system installation, configuration, management and monitoring, as well as support for the industry's leading cluster interconnects and platforms. The result is a fully-integrated and proven computing environment that reduces costs and increases efficiencies, as well as improves price performance ratios associated with building and running clusters for high-performance computing. "Large-scale, high-performance computing environments are inherently complex, and pose critical management challenges," said Bjorn Skare, chief executive officer of Scali. "By joining forces with Altair, we're able to smooth some of those challenges, and help organizations get optimal performance from their Linux data centers." "Scali and Altair are important partners in HP's Unified Cluster Portfolio, which brings the benefits of compute, data management, and visualization together in rapidly deployable and reliable solutions for our customers looking to solve demanding design and simulation challenges," said Bruce Toal, director of marketing of the High Performance Computing Division at HP.