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Microsoft in High Performance Computing: An Introduction

Aditya Krishnan

Technical Product Manager Microsoft Corp.

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 Agenda

• What is HPC?• What’s happening with the HPC market?

• What are customers looking for?

• What is Microsoft planning to do in this space?• Summary

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What s HPC?

• Cutting edge pro!lems in science" engineering"and !usiness that re#uire capa!ilities !eyondthose pro$ided !y standard desktops andser$ers

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Safer Structural 0lements

• ,inite 0lement Analysis .,0A/ packages modelelement stress1profiles under $arious conditions

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More 0fficient 2il 03traction

• 4eser$oir simulation packages modeloil(gas reser$oir rock and fluid properties

Source& http&((www'geocap'no(products(a)'eclipse'shtml

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Some Clarification 2n 5erminology6

• Collections ofcomputers" networkedtogether and acting asa single large machine

• 0ach 7node’ isdedicated to thecompute cluster 

• Collections ofcomputers" networkedtogether and acting asa single large machine

• 8odes ha$e 7day19o!s’and can only pro$idecycles when unused

HPC Systems

Shared Memory -istri!uted Memory

-edicated Compute Clusters 8on1-edicated Clusters

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Commoditynetworking

;rowing

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Commercial Adoption s 2n 5he 4ise

ndustry usagerising

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HPC Price Points Are -ropping

=>>= =>>* @@

System

Cray B1MP C>= Sun HPC=@@@@ Small ,orm ,actor PCs

 Architecture= 3 %ector );:" :us

) 3 MHD

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Challenges n HPC 5oday

K6want to do morescience and less 5L

K6apps not keeping upwith ideasL

K6takes a $illage toraise a clusterL

K6parallel programmingis difficultL

K6not enough toolsL

•  App a$aila!ilityand integration

• Simpler 9o! su!missionand monitoring

• 0asier deploymentand setup

• Simplified mgmten$ironment

• ntegrated and

complete de$elopmenten$ironment

• Platform standards

0nd

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Microsoft’s %ision ,or HPC

• 0mpower scientists and engineers tointeracti$ely employ massi$e computationalresources to sol$e comple3 technical pro!lems

• Make distri!uted computing resourcesproducti$e to de$elop for andcost1effecti$e to operate

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Windows Compute Cluster Ser$er @@ .CCS/

• Complete" integrated platformfor computational clustering

• Core Platform  Windows Ser$er @@ Compute Cluster 0dition

  3) only• Cluster 5ools

  Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack

  :uilt1in Cluster Management" No! Scheduler" and MP

  nterconnect support le$eraging Winsock -irect•  A$aila!ility

  5rial Software a$aila!le at http&((www'microsoft'com(hpc

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5he CCS %alue Proposition

• ,aster time1to1insight  65hrough simplified cluster deployment"

 9o! su!mission" and status monitoring

• ntegration with Windows infrastructure  6Allowing customers to use

e3isting technology and skill1sets

• ntegrated de$elopment en$ironment

  6 Allowing de$elopers to write parallelapplications from within the %isual Studio -0

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CCS ey ,eatures

• 0asier node deployment and administration  5ask1!ased configuration for head and compute nodes

 

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Windows Compute Cluster Ser$er @@ andgridMathematica • gridMathematica is the parallel computing en$ironment

comprised of a collection of Mathematica kernels" togetherfunctioning as a single" cohesi$e unit

• gridMathematica offers

   Accessi!le Parallelism

  4apid de$elopment and deployment

 

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Summary

• Parallel Computing is here to stay• Windows Compute Cluster Ser$er @@ is Microsoft’s

first step towards makes HPC accessi!le to all scientists"engineers" and !usinesses

• Windows Compute Cluster Ser$er @@ deli$ers6  ,aster time1to1insight through simplified cluster deployment"

 9o! su!mission" and status monitoring

  :etter integration with e3isting Windows infrastructure allowingcustomers to le$erage e3isting technology and skill1sets

  ,amiliar de$elopment en$ironment allows de$elopers to writeparallel applications from within the powerful %isual Studio -0

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4esources

• Microsoft HPC We! site  http&((www'microsoft'com(hpc

• Windows CCS Community Site  http&((www'windowshpc'net

• Windows Ser$er 3) information  http&((www'microsoft'com(3)(

• Windows Ser$er System information  http&((www'microsoft'com(wss(

• ;et the ,acts We! site  http&((www'microsoft'com(getthefacts

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