Alberto Galli HPC Senior Consultant Your partner for

Alberto Galli HPC Senior Consultant Your partner for the future in HPC HP Italiana alberto. galli@hp. com +39 335 6322966 Padova – 24 Giugno 2008

Everyday challenges in HPC Growth and scalability 2 New technologies being proposed to deal with issues of absolute performance and scalability Organizations need a way to determine which technologies to put their bets on Cost and efficiency Clusters have transformed HPC market. Perception is they are inefficient. Reality is, clusters offer increased levels of performance as well as power and cooling efficiencies Mitigating risk Leading edge technologies are being introduced into the HPC area constantly Organizations need a way to reduce the risk of deploying these new technologies 12/4/2020

Extending the vision: powerful catalysts for HPC innovation Visualization Accelerators and multi-core Dense computing Linux optimizations UPC optimizer Computation Remote caching Grid-enabled SFS Data management Scale-up and -out Grid and Adaptive Infrastructure Advanced power and cooling 3 12/4/2020 Interconnect/network Parallel compositing Converge d fabric

Catalysts for HPC Innovation Far Away Try Me with Available HP 4 12/4/2020 • Advanced Architectures and Interconnects • Caching File Systems • Dense Computing • Advanced Power and Cooling • Accelerators and Multi-core • Linux Optimizations • Converged Fabrics • Parallel Compositing Library and API • Grid Scheduling and WAN File Systems • UPC Compilers & Runtime Advances

Power & Cooling Rising consumption of energy Business challenges today: • Cost of energy is rising • Compute density is increasing • Systems require more energy to power and cool • Costs more to cool a server than to power it • Next year, half the world’s data centers will be functionally obsolete, due to insufficient Power & Cooling* Project Goals • Help customers achieve optimum power and cooling configurations of new or existing installations Power and Cooling project has three related activities: – Power tool improvement including verification, calibration of power calculators – Dynamic Power Mgt. – Dynamic Smart Cooling *Source: Gartner Inc. , see end note #5 5 12/4/2020

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HP and Bioresearch in the world HP has built up a Network of collaborations in Bio : • Singapore Bioresearch center • Malaysia Bioresearch center • India research center • Shanghai Bio research collaboration • Sanger center (WTSI Cambridge Research center) − Our biggest Bio research site in Europe. • Vital-IT in Switzerland The main collaboration in Europe • New collaboration : IBI in Ireland 7 12/4/2020

• Ongoing joint projects with the VILLAGE network: − testing of advanced architectures / configurations targeted to specific, computationally challenging quantum-chemistry problems − grid-related issues • Perspectives: − collaboration with the corresponding CNR-based HPC structure 8 12/4/2020

BIOGRID – A project for the Italian southern U. La Tuscia U. Tor Vergata U. Bari U. Federico II U. Basilicata U. Calabria U. Cagliari 9 12/4/2020

HP Labs around the world St. Petersburg Palo Alto Beijing Bristol Haifa Tokyo Bangalore 7 locations 600 researchers in 23 newly formed labs 5 research themes with 20 -30 projects at a time 10 12/4/2020

Advancing innovation and collaboration with HPC Catalysts • Leading innovation − We are driving the direction of HPC by investing in new technologies − We are doing this in collaboration with our customers and with our technology partners. − Not technology for technology sake, but to drive outcomes • Standards-based economies − By building on top of standard technologies, we drive increasing level of performance, but keep it affordable • Time-proven confidence − We are building best practices around these new technologies which will make deployment much more risk free 11 12/4/2020

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