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High Productivity Computing

High Productivity Computing . Windows HPC Server 2008. Why Microsoft in HPC?. Current Issues HPC and IT data centers merging: isolated cluster management Developers can’t easily program for parallelism Difficult for users to access processing cores and data . How can Microsoft help?

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High Productivity Computing

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  1. High Productivity Computing Windows HPC Server 2008

  2. Why Microsoft in HPC? • Current Issues • HPC and IT data centers merging: isolated cluster management • Developers can’t 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

  3. Microsoft Confidential 2008 Microsoft Investment in HPC >$150M 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 (sales+technical) • 15 dedicated HPC marketing leads • 55 half-time regional leads • Parallel Computing Initiative • 180 engineers focused on parallel development tools • Technical Computing Institutes

  4. HPC Technical Management Team

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Industry Focused Solutions FinancialServices GeoServices LifeSciences Academia Aerospace Automotive Government

  8. 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 >1,000 nodes in almost every major region. Real growth in every geography. • Expect FY08 to focus on government as major new segment.

  9. 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->cluster 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-management Technologies 2006-2007 2008 Markets Phase 1:Departmental Clusters Phase 2:Common Platform for Departmental to Enterprise Clusters

  10. What’s 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 Systems Management Job Scheduling Networking & MPI Storage • 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

  11. 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

  12. High Speed Networking Technologies Cisco Voltaire Qlogic Open Fabrics Myrinet, Infiniband, 10GigE NetEffect Bandwidth Myricom 1Gig Ethernet 100MB Ethernet Availability

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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 Tech Preview Beta 2 RTM Beta 1 Aug 2007 Nov 2007 Summer 2008 Early 2008

  16. 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

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