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Adaptive Computing Announces Availability of Its New TORQUE 4.0 Beta for HPC Jobs and Resource Management

By Calvin Azuri
TMCnet Contributor

Adaptive Computing, provider of cloud management solutions and HPC workload management systems, has announced that the TORQUE 4.0 beta version is now available. The beta 4.0 version of TORQUE has been designed as an open-source job and resource manager and is capable of providing petaflop scalability, reliability for HPC jobs and enterprise-ready speeds. Customers leveraging TORQUE will be able to control batch jobs as well as compute nodes in addition to being provided with ongoing information about the condition of nodes and workload status.

TORQUE 4.0 beta version provides scalability for petaflop via the new job radix which supports the running of jobs across an extensive number of nodes and comes with a new manager-of-managers (MOM) hierarchy feature to increase and improve supported nodes and their management.

TORQUE 4.0 effectively eliminates the bottlenecks in processor and node communication which makes it easy for users to run large number of jobs at a faster response rate. The radix feature increases both scalability as well as the number of supported nodes while effectively cutting down node updates overheads via the MOM hierarchy which has been included to manage the balanced distribution of the node communication load over the network.

Among other key highlights that enhance the TORQUE 4.0 are a parallel multi-threading capability which increases both response and reliability, to deliver fast response for user requests and submissions. It also enables users to function at a fast pace even in the event if individual processes function at a slow pace.

TORQUE 4.0 supports faster job throughput by accelerating the pace of submitted jobs and ending completed jobs by leveraging enhanced internal algorithms in addition to cutting down overheads for job start and completion. TORQUE also provides extended control and security over users via its new authorization daemon which helps in curtailing instances of users running the same jobs.

In a release, Ken Neilson TORQUE development manager at Adaptive Computing said that, "Adaptive Computing is honored to be the custodian of the TORQUE open-source project. We actively develop the code base, in cooperation with the TORQUE community, as TORQUE is an integrated part of the Moab product line. Adaptive Computing is committed to providing state-of-the-art resource and job management to support the HPC and open-source communities."