{{Infobox Software , name = NetworkComputer , developer = Altair Engineering , latest_release_version = 2019.01 , latest_release_date = 2019 , operating_system =

Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform software ...

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job scheduler A job scheduler is a computer application for controlling unattended background program execution of jobs. This is commonly called batch scheduling, as execution of non-interactive jobs is often called batch processing, though traditional ''job' ...

, website
Altair Engineering – Accelerator Page
Altair Accelerator, previously known as NetworkComputer (NC), is a commercial

developed by

Altair Engineering Altair Engineering Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Troy, Michigan. It provides software and cloud solutions for simulation, IoT, high performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and artificial ...

. The product was originally developed by

Runtime Design Automation Runtime, run-time, or run time may refer to: Computing *Runtime (program lifecycle phase), the period during which a computer program is executing * Runtime library, a program library designed to implement functions built into a programming langua ...

(RTDA) before Altair acquired the company. Accelerator is used to manage a computer farm or

computer cluster A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system. Unlike grid computers, computer clusters have each node set to perform the same task, controlled and scheduled by software. The comp ...

and is responsible for accepting, scheduling, dispatching, and managing the remote execution of standalone, parallel, or interactive user jobs. It also manages the allocation of resources such as processors, memory, disk space, software licenses, and custom objects to jobs that require them. Accelerator uses a unique event-driven scheduler that results in very low overhead per job, usually in the millisecond range.

Features

* Web interface for administrators and users * Native command execution and scripting support * Job throttling based upon resource availability (CPU, RAM, licenses, etc.) Accelerator runs on multiple platforms, including

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which i ...

macOS macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...

, Microsoft Windows.

References

Berkeley Presentation

EETimes article

SOCcentral article

External links

Altair Engineering website
Job scheduling Proprietary software