Windows Compute Cluster Server And Deskside Clusters An Overview Anand Krishnan Product Manager Windows Server HPC Microsoft Corporation

We’re Going To Talk About … What is HPC? What’s happening with the HPC market? What are customers looking for? What is Microsoft planning to do in this space? How does this affect my business?

What Is HPC? Cutting edge problems in science, engineering and business require capabilities beyond those of standard desktops and servers

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Safer Structural Elements Finite Element Analysis (FEA) packages model element stress-profiles under various conditions

More Efficient Oil Extraction Reservoir simulation packages model oil/gas reservoir rock and fluid properties Source:

Some Clarification On Terminology … HPC Systems Shared Memory Distributed Memory Dedicated Compute Clusters Non-Dedicated Clusters Collections of computers, networked together and acting as a single large machine Each ‘node’ is dedicated to the compute cluster Collections of computers, networked together and acting as a single large machine Collections of computers, networked together and acting as a single large machine Nodes have ‘day-jobs’ and can only provide cycles when unused Nodes have ‘day-jobs’ and can only provide cycles when unused

Entry Price-points For HPC Have Dropped

Distributed Memory Becoming The Norm Clusters over 70%

Commercial Adoption Is On The Rise Industry usage rising

HPC system growth: 70% in 2004; 25% in 2005 (IDC) Growth being driven by <$250k segment (clusters) x86 server clusters growing faster than market (15%-20% for HPC clusters, 11.4% for x86 overall) Market Growth Driven By The Low End

Challenges in HPC today “.. want to do more science & less IT” “..apps not keeping up with ideas” “…takes a village to raise a cluster” “...parallel programming is difficult” “..not enough tools” App availability and integration Simpler job submission and monitoring Easier deployment and setup Simplified mgmt environment Integrated & complete development environment Platform standards End Users IT Pros Developers

Microsoft’s Vision For HPC Empower scientists and engineers to interactively employ massive computational resources to solve complex technical problems Make distributed computing resources productive to develop for and cost- effective to operate

Microsoft Initiatives In HPC Develop a complete product Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Grow the ecosystem Work with partners to build & sell solutions Work with the HPC community Work with the HPC community Partner with academia and industry to develop standards and advance research Raise Awareness Evangelize parallel computing

Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) Complete, integrated platform for computational clustering Core Platform Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition x64 only Cluster Tools Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack Built-in Cluster Mgmt, Job Scheduler & MPI Interconnect support leveraging Winsock Direct Availability Pre-release bits at RTM in June

The CCS Value Proposition Faster time-to-insight..through simplified cluster deployment, job submission and status monitoring Integration with Windows infrastructure … allowing customers to use existing technology and skill-sets Integrated development environment … allowing developers to write parallel applications from within the Visual Studio IDE

Target Verticals AutomotiveAerospace LifeSciencesGeoServicesFinancialServices AcademiaGovernment

Partners

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA USA University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN USA Cornell Theory Center Ithaca, NY USA University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT USA TACC – University of Texas Austin, TX USA Southampton University Southampton, UK HLRS – University of Stuttgart Stuttgart, Germany Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, PRC Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo, Japan Nizhni Novgorod University Nizhni Novgorod, Russia HPC Institutes

Bringing HPC Into The Mainstream Computing Scale Deskside Clusters Datacenter Based Compute Clusters

Datacenter-Based Compute Clustering Sizes ranging from nodes …but 90+% of installs are <64 nodes High affinity to workstations for interactive processing Seamless interaction between workstation and cluster critical to end-users Integration into IT infrastructure critical to IT Pros Purchasing decision driven by combination of Corp IT and End-User

Deskside Supercomputing End users that are caught between the desktop and the datacenter Need access to 4-8 nodes for most of their processing Might have access to larger HPC systems but want ‘in-lab’ clusters for development purposes Allows user to refine algorithms and code before deployment on larger departmental clusters User profile: Engineers and scientists solving “what if” problems in Life Sciences Computer Aided Engineering Finance Oil and gas/geophysics

What Should A Deskside Cluster Look Like? True high performance parallel computers Small enough for the office and lab Powered from a standard wall outlet Cool running and quiet Priced under single-user purchase limits As easy to use as a PC Comes with OS pre-installed (and potentially app as well)

Deskside Scenario Molecular Modeling Personal 4 node cluster Per node: Dual core, dual proc x64, 2GB RAM Dual NIC (Ethernet + GigE or IB) 1 head node, 3 compute nodes 110v pluggable, low noise, desk-side tower Front end workstation used to build, view and interact with the model in 3D Coarse-grained simulations run against desk-side cluster. Larger models handed off to datacenter-based resources

Summary Parallel computing is here to stay Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is Microsoft’s first step towards bringing HPC into the computing mainstream CCS will serve existing scenarios… Datacenter-Based Compute Clustering …and drive momentum around new ones Deskside Supercomputing

Call To Action Download Compute Cluster Server Think about taking HPC beyond the datacenter Build, Test and Prepare to ship products for CCS

Resources Microsoft HPC Web site Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Beta Program Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Community Site Windows Server x64 information Windows Server System information Get the Facts Web site

User App MPI Node Manager Job Execution Datacenter-Based Compute Clustering DB/FS User Cmd line Desktop App Job Mgr UI Admin Admin Console Cmd line Head Node Job Mgmt Resource Mgmt Cluster Mgmt Scheduling High speed, low latency interconnect Tasks Management Jobs Policy, reports Active Directory Data Input Domain\UserA

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