HPC Technical WorkshopBjörn TromsdorfProduct & Solutions Manager, Microsoft EMEA London 19.05.06

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 TrendsTop 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

-3%

2005 Systems

30%

981

4,988

21,733

163,441

2005 Growth

36%

33%

<$250K – 97% of systems, 55% of revenue

Cluster Market Penetration

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

03Q1 03Q2 03Q3 03Q4 04Q1 04Q2 04Q3 04Q4 05Q1 05Q2 05Q3 05Q4

ClustersNon-Clustered

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

1991 1998 2005

System

Cray Y-MP C916 Sun HPC10000 Small Form Factor PCs

Architecture16 x Vector4GB, Bus

24 x 333MHz Ultra-SPARCII, 24GB, SBus

4 x 2.2GHz Athlon644GB, GigE

OS UNICOS Solaris 2.5.1 Windows Server 2003 SP1

GFlops ~10 ~10 ~10

Top500 # 1 500 N/A

Price $40,000,000 $1,000,000 (40x drop) < $4,000 (250x drop)

Customers Government Labs Large Enterprises Every Engineer and Scientist

ApplicationsClassified, 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

CCPCCP

Compute Cluster PackCompute Cluster Pack

CCPCCP

Leveraging Existing Windows Infrastructure Active DirectoryActive Directory

Microsoft Enterprise Microsoft Enterprise Management ToolsManagement Tools

Windows SecurityWindows Security

Compute Cluster Built-Compute Cluster Built-in Toolsin 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

Cornell Theory CenterIthaca, NY USA

University of TennesseeKnoxville, TN USA

University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA USA

University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT USA

TACC – University of TexasAustin, TX USA

Southampton UniversitySouthampton, UK

HLRS – University of StuttgartStuttgart, Germany

Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai, PRC

Tokyo Institute of TechnologyTokyo, 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

© 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.