Case Study: Queensland Institute of Medical Research achieves improved HPC capabilities and higher-quality research with Altair's PBS Professional

QIMR Improves HPC Capabilities and Supports Higher Quality Research with PBS Professional

The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), one of Australia’s largest medical research institutes, needed shared high-performance computing to support dozens of labs and hundreds of researchers processing large bioinformatics and statistical datasets. To provide a reliable, supported workload manager for a Dell-based cluster, QIMR selected Altair and its PBS Works suite—specifically PBS Professional—to deliver a scalable, enterprise-grade job scheduling solution.

Altair implemented PBS Professional to centrally manage QIMR’s Dell PowerEdge cluster beginning in 2011, bringing more than 50 scientists across six departments onto a single, easy-to-use system. The result was measurable: workloads that once took weeks on individual workstations now complete in hours or minutes, a thousand‑genome computation became feasible, statisticians were productive within a week, and administrative overhead was reduced—delivering clear improvements in research throughput and quality driven by Altair’s solution.

Queensland Institute of Medical Research

Jonathan Davies

Chief Information Officer