High Productivity Computing

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High Productivity Computing

• Windows HPC Server 2008

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Why Microsoft in HPC?

• Current Issues
• HPC and IT data centers merging isolated
  cluster management
• Developers cant easily program for parallelism
• Difficult for users to access processing cores
  and data

• How can Microsoft help?
• Positioned to mainstream integration of
  application parallelism
• Efforts underway to enable parallelism broadly
  to the developer community
• Can expand the value of HPC by integrating
  productivity and management tools

• Microsoft Investments in HPC
• Comprehensive software portfolio Client, Server,
  Management, Development, and Collaboration
• Dedicated teams focused on Cluster Computing
• Unified Parallel development through the Parallel
  Computing Initiative
• Partnerships with the Technical Computing
  Institutes

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2008 Microsoft Investment in HPC

• gt150M total investment in HPC in 2008.
• Platform Portfolio
• Client Windows Vista 64-bit (technical
  workstation)
• Server Windows Compute Cluster Server
• Development Platform Visual Studio IDE with
  Parallel Tools
• Management Systems Center for HPC
• Collaboration/Workflow Sharepoint and Windows
  Workflow Foundation
• Windows HPC Server
• 40 engineers on HPC server tools
• 40 incubation sales world-wide (salestechnical)
• 15 dedicated HPC marketing leads
• 55 half-time regional leads
• Parallel Computing Initiative
• 180 engineers focused on parallel development
  tools
• Technical Computing Institutes

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HPC Technical Management Team
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Windows HPC Server 2008

• Complete, integrated platform for computational
  clustering
• Built on top the proven Windows Server 2008
  platform
• Integrated development environment

Beta1 available from http//www.microsoft.com/hpc
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Windows HPC Server 2008 Ready for Prime-time
116 Top 500
30 improvement in efficiency on the same
hardware.
Less than 2 hours to deploy
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Industry Focused Solutions
GeoServices
FinancialServices
LifeSciences
Automotive
Aerospace
Academia
Government
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Market Results

• Key traction in commercial and higher education
  markets.
• Large clusters in financial services.
• National City, Lincoln Financial, Aegon,
• Clusters in education
• Arizona State, Holland Computing Center, NCSA,
  Univ of Minn, Univ of Arizona
• Many POCs in manufacturing, scaling out now.
• Honeywell, Callaway, 3M, Boeing
• Clusters gt1,000 nodes in almost every major
  region. Real growth in every geography.
• Expect FY08 to focus on government as major new
  segment.

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Microsoft HPC Strategy Expanding to the
Enterprise
MOSS, SQL, System Center
Productivity
Common mgt andproductivity platform
Visual Studio 2008 Parallel ComputingInitiative
Common dev platform for desktop-gtcluster
Dev Tools
IO
NetworkDirect for very high network efficiency
Storage
Scalable Clustered File System Support
Key Partners
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
Resource Mgt
SOA-based scalable partners
Key Partners
Compute
Compute
Windows HPC Server 2008
Rapid deployment Turnkey app monitoring Ease-of-ma
nagement
Technologies
2006-2007
2008
Markets
Phase 1Departmental Clusters
Phase 2Common Platform for Departmental to
Enterprise Clusters
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Whats new in HPC Server 2008?

• New System Center UI
• PowerShell for CLI Management
• High Availability for Head Nodes
• Windows Deployment Services
• Diagnostics/Reporting
• Support for Operations Manager

• Support for SOA and WCF
• Granular resource scheduling
• Improved scalability for larger clusters
• New Job scheduling policies
• Interoperability via HPC Profile

• Improved iSCI SAN Support in Win2008
• Improved Server Message Block ( SMB v2)
• New 3rd party parallel system file support for
  Windows
• New Memory Cache Vendors

• NetworkDirect (RDMA) for MPI
• Improved Network Configuration Wizard
• Shared Memory MS-MPI for multi-core
• MS-MPI integrated with Windows Event Tracing

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HPC Storage Solutions
Greater Sophistication
Aggregate (Mb/s/core)

• IBM GPFS
• Panasas Active Scale

• HP - PolyServe
• Ibrix - Fusion
• Quantum - StorNext
• SANbolic Melio file system

• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008

Number of cores in cluster
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High Speed Networking Technologies
Cisco Voltaire Qlogic Open Fabrics
Myrinet, Infiniband, 10GigE
NetEffect
Myricom
1Gig Ethernet
100MB Ethernet
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Improved Efficiency for the Systems Admin

• Simple to setup and manage in a familiar
  environment
• Turnkey cluster solutions through OEMs
• Simplify system and application deployment
• Base images, patches, drivers, applications

• Focus on ease of management
• Comprehensive diagnostics , troubleshooting and
  monitoring
• Familiar, flexible and pivotal management
  interface
• Equivalent command line support for unattended
  management
• Scale up
• Scale deployment, administration, infrastructure
• Head node failover
• Cluster usage reporting
• Compute node filtering
• Better integration with enterprise management
• Patch Management
• System Center Operations Management
• PowerShell
• Windows 2008 high Availability Services

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Parallel Programming

• Available Now
• Development and Parallel debugging in Visual
  Studio
• 3rd party Compilers, Debuggers, Runtimes etc..
  available
• Emerging Technologies Parallel Framework
• LINQ/PLINQ natural OO language for SQL queries
  in .NET
• C Futures way to explicitly make loops
  parallel
• For the future Parallel Computing Initiative
  (PCI)
• Triple investment with a new engineering team
• Focused on common tools for developing multi-core
  codes from desktops to clusters

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Release Schedule

• Technical Preview Private Release
• Beta 1 Publicly Available now!
• Beta 2 Coincides with Windows Server 2008 RTM
• RTM 90 to 120 days after Windows RTM

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Resources

• Microsoft HPC Web site download Beta 1 Today!
• http//www.microsoft.com/hpc
• Windows HPC Community site
• http//www.windowshpc.net
• Windows Server x64 information
• http//www.microsoft.com/x64/
• Windows Server System information
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserver
• Get the Facts Web site
• http//www.microsoft.com/getthefacts