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Zane Adam, Director of Windows Server Division
Annemarie Duffy, Infrastructure Server Team Manager
Date: June 9th 2006
Contents
HPC Market View
Microsoft Approach
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
Target Verticals
Today’s News
Market Perspective
Microsoft Approach to HPCMake it Simple
DeploymentManagementDevelopment
Make the right PartnershipsCommercialAcademic
Make it MainstreamWindows Server InfrastructureWindows XPVisual Studio 2005Microsoft Excel
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
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DB/FS
High speed, low latency interconnect
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Admin
Desktop App
Cmd line
Job Mgmt
Resource Mgmt
Cluster Mgmt
Head Node
Node Manager
User AppJob Execution
Active Director
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MPI
Admin ConsoleCmd line
User Console
AdministrationPrescriptive, simplified cluster setup and administration (MMC, user console)Scripted, image-based compute node management (RIS, SDM, Job Scheduler)Active Directory based securityScalable, extensible job scheduling and resource management
DevelopmentMPICH2 from Argonne National Lab with performance and security enhancementsCluster scheduler programmable via DCOM and .NETVisual Studio 2005 – OpenMP, Parallel Debugger
Target Verticals
Institutes of HPC
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 Stuttgart (Germany)
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai, PRC
Tokyo Institute of TechnologyTokyo, Japan
Nizhni Novgorod University
Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
NCSA– University of Illinois
USA
Announcing…
Release to Manufacturing: Microsoft’s first HPC solution, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
General availability: Early August
Pricing/Licensing: Availability in the volume license channel with an estimated price of $469 per node
OEM (embedded, system builder, OEM); volume licensing, MSDN/TechNet for download, evaluation version
Partners
Reduced design cost through improved engineer productivity
Reduced time to market
Increased product performance
Lower computing acquisition and maintenance costs
Use Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003, workflow orchestra-tion, and developer tools to deliver inter-operable, secure design platform based on CFD framework
Complex, lengthy design cycle with difficult collaboration and little knowledge reuse
High costs due to expensive computing infrastructure
Advanced IT skills required of engineers, slowing design
Aerospace firm speeds design, improves performance, lowers costs with clustered computing
“Simplifying our fluid dynamics engineering platform will increase our ability to bring solutions to market and reduce
risk and cost to both BAE Systems and its customers.”Jamil Appa, Group Leader, Technology and Engineering Services,
BAE Systems
More research groups are now using HPC applications
Researchers can now run larger data models and free up desktop for other tasks
Research-driven university deploys Compute Cluster Server, enabling broader access of HPC to new users
and applications
“Windows Compute Cluster Server offers Queen’s University users the ability to solve complex
computational problems in a user-friendly environment.” Professor Ken Bell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University, Belfast
University with a dynamic world-class research and education portfolio wanted to offer HPC to new users and applications
Wanted to expand the use of HPC to user groups lacking in-depth computing skills
Deployed Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 to enable researchers to solve complex computational problems by running financial modelling, imaging, and engineering applications
National Center for Atmospheric Research - Weather Research Forecasting Model
Next generation numerical weather prediction systemIn production use at US National Weather Service and Air Force Weather Agency and >3,000 usersOriginally developed for Unix systems. 360,000 lines of code in C++, Fortran, OpenMP and MPI750 lines required modification to produce native Win64 binary that ran on Windows CCS/MPI
“Windows emergence as a viable HPC operating system broadens the range of computational resources for atmospheric research and weather forecasting and presents a significant opportunity to the WRF user community.”
John MichalakesWRF Principal Developer
High Performance ComputingCutting edge problems in science, engineering and business always require capabilities beyond those of standalone 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
Long term climate projections
Volume economics of industry standard Volume economics of industry standard hardware and commercial software hardware and commercial software applications are rapidly bringing HPC applications are rapidly bringing HPC capabilities to broader number of userscapabilities to broader number of users