Using Placement Sets for Altair PBS Professional

The PBS Professional scheduler provides many different methods for optimizing scheduling. Placement sets, also referred to as topology-aware scheduling, can be used to group nodes together based on a shared characteristic to help optimize job performance as well as the overall use of your PBS Professional complex. Common usages include taking advantage of interconnect or hardware topology including IRUs or racks, system resources, access to shared storage, system location, and application availability.