Compute Manager, Display Manager, Remote Visualization Service, PBS Application Service의 기능 업데이트 그리고 File Service Provider라는 새로운 기능까지 추가된 “PBS Works 13.0 GA” 최신버전 패키지가 사용 가능하게 되었습니다.
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… Release note for PASReleaseNotes13.0.0
PBS Works 13.0 GA 공식 업데이트의 하이라이트는 다음과 같습니다.
| Compute Manager |
- Application Launch Framework (ALF): this is the framework Compute and Display Manager use to control client installed applications (i.e. launch the RDP viewer to connect to a remote session; open the selected remote file with a locally installed applications).
- CM has the ability to open files with DM based applications.
- Automatic job list refresh: Compute Manager updates status of the jobs in the job list automatically.
- Time based job filtering: job list can be filtered for jobs changed within a given timeframe (today, yesterday, last seven days, last thirty days).
- Operator role extension: designed users can terminate other users jobs.
- Easier login: Username and passwords can be cached by browsers
- Client side dynamic applications support: Application Definitions can run scripts on the client side.
- Text based filtering for jobs on the client side
- PAS servers are automatically registered for users when set by administrator
- Ability to disable remote file browsing
- Ability to add custom links to Compute Manager Monitoring page
- Ability to set initial directory when users log in the first time in Compute Manager
- Non blocking job submission and notifications
| Display Manager |
- Redesigned framework for application launch and monitoring to enable tighter integrations and control.
- Display Manager can now control sessions and applications launched on Windows execution hosts through the tight integration with Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS).
- Redesigned interface with PBS Application Services for improved robustness and lightweight application integration. The minimum amount of configuration edits to publish an application through Display Manager has been greatly reduced.
- Redesigned GPU resource management reduces the dependencies on the workload manager and the file system configuration.
- Greater control over session timeout. The waiting time can be customized based on site requirements. While waiting, the session can be aborted if it is taking too long to start.
- Improved web browser based client allows to dynamically resize remote Linux desktops to match the actual viewer window area.
- Now, when configured to do so, Display Manager will provide for the remote session temporary files to be copied in a permanent location when the session is terminated.
| Results Visualization Service |
- Users can now visualize multiple results simultaneously in a dashboard.
- Dashboards can be saved as templates and reapplied on different result files.
- Plot and Animation results can be configured to auto refresh periodically while a simulation job is in progress.
- It is now possible to compare results from different jobs using the newly introduced overlay curve feature.
- New file extensions .rvs and .rvst are introduced for saving dashboard layouts.
- It is now possible to plot generic csv (comma separated values) files.
- An option is introduced to generate separate H3d file for each result type.
- Advanced filtering options are implemented for selecting Model components and Result types for visualization.
- It is now possible to switch between different contours in animation viewer, if the viewed H3d files contains multiple result types.
- Improved Performance for visualizing series result files such as Radioss (A00*) and Dyna (d3plot*) results
- Now, Results visualization features can also be accessed from Remote File Browser.
| PBS Application Service |
- Installing PAS on a separate machine from PBS as a failover server
- File Service Provider improves speed of remote file operations and removes dependency upon PBS
- Token-based authentication and logging for PAS commands
- The GetJobs API now exposes estimated start time and eligible time.
- Application Definition Submittime Script Exception Handling
- Improved API for dynamic applications
- PAS supports local dynamic application definitions
– A new feature of PAS 13.0 is the ability to install PAS on a separate machine from the PBS Professional Server as a failover server. With this deployment option PAS 13.0 and the PBS Client must be installed on the same machine. In addition, PAS resources must be manually added to the PBS resource definition file after installing PAS. For more information see the section “Installing PAS on a Separate Machine from the PBS Server” in the PBS Application Services 13.0 Administrator’s Guide.
– File Transfer Service or FSP provides a mechanism for executing remote file operations on the PBS Professional execution hosts removing the dependency upon PBS Professional for remote file operations and file transfers. Additionally, FSP increases the speed of Compute Manager file operations during job execution time. If you are interesting in utilizing FSP see Chapter 14, “File Service Provider” in the PBS Application Services 13.0 Administrator’s Guide.
– By default, PAS Commands employ username-password based authentication. With PAS 13.0, PAS Commands can be configured to use password-less (token-based) authentication on Linux platforms. When password-less authentication is configured, user’s no longer have to set a password before executing a PAS Command using the pas- passwd command. Additionally, logging support has been added for PAS Commands.
– Two new jobs properties are exposed by the GetJobs API: estimated start time and eligible time. For more information see the PBS Application Services Programming Guide.
– PAS 13.0 allows exception handling to be added to the submittime script to catch and manage runtime errors prior to job submission. The error can then be displayed to the user submitting the job. In previous versions of PAS, there was no way for a submittime runtime error to be communicated to the user. Job submission behaved as if the job was submitted successfully, however, execution of the submittime script stopped at the exception, and the uncaught exception was written to the PAS log file. For an example, see the recipe “Adding Exception Handling to the Submittime Script” in Diving Into Application Definitions.
– Improvements to the refresh script API for dynamic application definitions make creating a dynamic application simpler and easier. For more information see the tutorial “Using a Dynamic Application” and the “Dynamic Application Refresh Script API” in Diving Into Application Definitions.
– Local dynamic applications allow the refresh script of a dynamic application to be run on the local machine rather than the PAS server. For more information about how to create a local dynamic application definition see the recipe “How to Create a Local Dynamic Application” in Diving Into Application Definitions.
