Windows Compute Cluster Server And Deskside Clusters An

Windows Compute Cluster Server And Deskside Clusters An Overview Anand Krishnan Product Manager Windows Server HPC Microsoft Corporation

We’re Going To Talk About … What is HPC? What’s happening with the HPC market? What are customers looking for? What is Microsoft planning to do in this space? How does this affect my business?

What Is HPC? Cutting edge problems in science, engineering and business require capabilities beyond those of standard desktops and servers

Improved Vehicle Aerodynamics Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Packages used to model vehicle aerodynamics Source: www. fluent. com/ about/news/pr/pr 48. html ; www. fluent. com

Safer Structural Elements Finite Element Analysis (FEA) packages model element stress-profiles under various conditions

More Efficient Oil Extraction Reservoir simulation packages model oil/gas reservoir rock and fluid properties Source: http: //www. geocap. no/products/a 4. eclipse. shtml

Some Clarification On Terminology … HPC Systems Shared Memory Distributed Memory Dedicated Compute Clusters Non-Dedicated Clusters Collections of computers, networked together and acting as a single large machine Each ‘node’ is dedicated to the compute cluster Nodes have ‘day-jobs’ and can only provide cycles when unused

Entry Price-points For HPC Have Dropped

Distributed Memory Becoming The Norm Clusters over 70%

Commercial Adoption Is On The Rise Industry usage rising

Market Growth Driven By The Low End HPC system growth: 70% in 2004; 25% in 2005 (IDC) Growth being driven by <$250 k segment (clusters) x 86 server clusters growing faster than market (15%-20% for HPC clusters, 11. 4% for x 86 overall)

Challenges in HPC today End Users IT Pros Developers “. . want to do more science & less IT” “. . apps not keeping up with ideas” App availability and integration Simpler job submission and monitoring “…takes a village to raise a cluster” Easier deployment and setup Simplified mgmt environment “. . . parallel programming is difficult” “. . not enough tools” Integrated & complete development environment Platform standards

Microsoft’s Vision For HPC Empower scientists and engineers to interactively employ massive computational resources to solve complex technical problems Make distributed computing resources productive to develop for and costeffective to operate

Microsoft Initiatives In HPC Develop a complete product Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Grow the ecosystem Work with partners to build & sell solutions Work with the HPC community Partner with academia and industry to develop standards and advance research Raise Awareness Evangelize parallel computing

Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) Complete, integrated platform for computational clustering Core Platform Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition x 64 only Cluster Tools Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack Built-in Cluster Mgmt, Job Scheduler & MPI Interconnect support leveraging Winsock Direct Availability Pre-release bits at http: //www. microsoft. com/hpc RTM in June

The CCS Value Proposition Faster time-to-insight. . through simplified cluster deployment, job submission and status monitoring Integration with Windows infrastructure … allowing customers to use existing technology and skill-sets Integrated development environment … allowing developers to write parallel applications from within the Visual Studio IDE

Target Verticals Life Automotive Aerospace Sciences Geo Services Financial Services Academia Government

Partners

HPC Institutes TACC – University of Texas Austin, TX USA University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT USA Cornell Theory Center Ithaca, NY USA Southampton University Southampton, UK University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA USA University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN USA Nizhni Novgorod University Nizhni Novgorod, Russia Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo, Japan HLRS – University of Stuttgart, Germany Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, PRC

Datacenter Based Compute Clusters Deskside Clusters Computing Scale Bringing HPC Into The Mainstream

Datacenter-Based Compute Clustering Sizes ranging from 8 -1000+ nodes …but 90+% of installs are <64 nodes High affinity to workstations for interactive processing Seamless interaction between workstation and cluster critical to end-users Integration into IT infrastructure critical to IT Pros Purchasing decision driven by combination of Corp IT and End-User

Deskside Supercomputing End users that are caught between the desktop and the datacenter Need access to 4 -8 nodes for most of their processing Might have access to larger HPC systems but want ‘in-lab’ clusters for development purposes Allows user to refine algorithms and code before deployment on larger departmental clusters User profile: Engineers and scientists solving “what if” problems in Life Sciences Computer Aided Engineering Finance Oil and gas/geophysics

What Should A Deskside Cluster Look Like? True high performance parallel computers Small enough for the office and lab Powered from a standard wall outlet Cool running and quiet Priced under single-user purchase limits As easy to use as a PC Comes with OS pre-installed (and potentially app as well)

Deskside Scenario Molecular Modeling Personal 4 node cluster Per node: Dual core, dual proc x 64, 2 GB RAM Dual NIC (Ethernet + Gig. E or IB) 1 head node, 3 compute nodes 110 v pluggable, low noise, desk-side tower Front end workstation used to build, view and interact with the model in 3 D Coarse-grained simulations run against desk-side cluster. Larger models handed off to datacenter-based resources

Summary Parallel computing is here to stay Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is Microsoft’s first step towards bringing HPC into the computing mainstream CCS will serve existing scenarios… Datacenter-Based Compute Clustering …and drive momentum around new ones Deskside Supercomputing

Call To Action Download Compute Cluster Server 2003 @ www. microsoft. com/hpc Think about taking HPC beyond the datacenter Build, Test and Prepare to ship products for CCS

Resources Microsoft HPC Web site http: //www. microsoft. com/hpc/ Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Beta Program http: //www. microsoft. com/windowsserver 2003/ccs/beta. mspx Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Community Site http: //codegallery. gotdotnet. com/windowshpc Windows Server x 64 information http: //www. microsoft. com/64 bit/ http: //www. microsoft. com/x 64/ Windows Server System information http: //www. microsoft. com/wss/ Get the Facts Web site http: //www. microsoft. com/getthefacts

Datacenter-Based Compute Clustering Head Node Active Directory Job Mgmt Cluster Mgmt Scheduling Resource Mgmt Desktop App Policy, reports Jobs User Admin Console Job Mgr UI Management Tasks Input Cmd line Admin Cmd line DomainUser. A DB/FS High speed, low latency interconnect Data Node Manager Job Execution User App MPI

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