HPC Technical Workshop Björn Tromsdorf Product & Solutions Manager, Microsoft EMEA London

Agenda Defining High Performance Computing (HPC) Industry and Market Trends Customer Challenges Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

High Performance Computing Cutting edge problems in science, engineering and business always demand capabilities beyond those of the fastest computers Market pressures demand accelerated innovation cycle, overall cost reduction and thorough outcome modeling –Aircraft design utilizing composite materials –Vehicle fuel efficiency and safety improvements –Simulations of enzyme catalysis, protein folding –Targeted material and drug design –Simulation of nanoscale electronic devices –Financial portfolio risk modeling –Digital content creation and enhancement –Supply chain modeling and optimization Volume economics of industry standard hardware and commercial software applications are rapidly bringing HPC capabilities to a broader number of users Microsoft HPC Strategy – taking HPC to the mainstream –Enabling broad HPC adoption and making HPC into a high volume market

HPC Market Trends Top Challenges to Implementing Clusters System management capability 18% Apps availability 17% Parallel algorithm complexity 14% Space, power, cooling 11% Interconnect BW/latency 10% I/O performance 9% Interconnect complexity 9% Other 12% Source: IDC, % 2005 Systems 30% 981 4,988 21, , Growth 36% 33% <$250K – 97% of systems, 55% of revenue

Top 500 Supercomputer Trends Industry usage rising GigE is gaining (50% of systems) Clusters over 70% x86 is leading (Pentium 41%, EM64T 16%, Opteron 11%)

Market Perspective System Cray Y-MP C916Sun HPC10000Small Form Factor PCs Architecture 16 x Vector 4GB, Bus 24 x 333MHz Ultra- SPARCII, 24GB, SBus 4 x 2.2GHz Athlon64 4GB, GigE OS UNICOSSolaris 2.5.1Windows Server 2003 SP1 GFlops ~10 Top500 # 1500N/A Price $40,000,000$1,000,000 (40x drop)< $4,000 (250x drop) Customers Government LabsLarge EnterprisesEvery Engineer and Scientist Applications Classified, Climate, Physics Research Manufacturing, Energy, Finance, Telecom Bioinformatics, Materials Sciences, Digital Media

Top Challenges “Make high-end computing easier and more productive to use. Emphasis should be placed on time to solution, the major metric of value to high-end computing users… A common software environment for scientific computation encompassing desktop to high-end systems will enhance productivity gains by promoting ease of use and manageability of systems.” High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force, 2004 (Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President) Setup is painful Takes a long time to get clusters up and running Keeping systems updated is difficult Lack of integration into IT infrastructure Job management Lack of integration into end-user apps Application availability Limited eco-system of application that can exploit parallel processing capabilities

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Accelerates time-to-insight by providing a High-Performance Computing (HPC) platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools. –Faster Time to Insight –Better Integration with Existing Tools –Familiar Development Environment

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 CCP Compute Cluster Pack CCP

Leveraging Existing Windows Infrastructure Active Directory Microsoft Enterprise Management Tools Windows Security Compute Cluster Built-in Tools Operations Manager Systems Management Server Windows Update Services Secure Job Execution Remote Installation Services Admin Console Performance Monitor Command Line Interface Kerberos Authentication Resource Management Group Policies Integration with IT Infrastructure Job Scheduler Secure MPI

Target Verticals

Partners

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

Summary Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 removes administrative barriers preventing broad adoption of HPC solutions –Familiar environment and integration with standard tools –Convenient job scheduler –Parallel debugging capabilities and full support of MPI standards Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 makes HPC accessible to all scientists, engineers, and businesses

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