Welcome To The 38 th HPC User Forum Meeting HLRS October 2010

1. Welcome To The 38thHPC User ForumMeetingHLRS October 2010

2. Important Dates For Your Calendar • FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: • International Meetings: • HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 7/8, 2010 • SARA Computing & Networking Services, Amsterdam, October 11/12, 2010 • Beijing, China, October 30th • 2011 US Meetings: • April 5 to 7, Houston, Texas • September 6 to 8, San Diego, California

3. Introduction: Logistics • We have a very tight agenda (as usual) • Please help us keep on time! • Review handouts • Note: We will post most of the presentations on the web site • Please complete the evaluation form

5. HPC User Forum Mission • To Improve The Health Of The • High-performance Computing Industry • Through Open Discussions, Information-sharing And Initiatives Involving • HPC Users In Industry, Government And Academia • Along With HPC Vendors • And Other Interested Parties

6. HPC User Forum Goals • Assist HPC users in solving their ongoing computing, technical and business problems • Provide a forum for exchanging information, identifying areas of common interest, and developing unified positions on requirements • By working with users in other sectors and vendors • To help direct and push vendors to build better products • Which should also help vendors become more successful • Provide members with a continual supply of information on: • Uses of high end computers, new technologies, high end best practices, market dynamics, computer systems and tools, benchmark results, vendor activities and strategies • Provide members with a channel to present their achievements and requirements to interested parties

7. Steve Finn, BAE Systems, Chairman SharanKalwani , KAUST, Vice Chairman Earl Joseph, IDC, Executive Director Vijay Agarwala, Penn State University Alex Akkerman, Ford Motor Company Doug Ball, The Boeing Company RupakBiswas NASA/Ames Paul Buerger, Avetec Steve Conway, IDC Research Vice President Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute Jeff Broughton. NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Merle Giles, NSCA/University of Illinois Chris Catherasoo, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Doug Kothe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Muzio, City University of New York Michael Resch , HLRS, University of Stuttgart Marie-Christine Sawley, ETH Zurich - CERN Group Vince Scarafino, Industry Expert Robert Singleterry, NASA/Langley Steering Committee Members

8. IDC HPCMarket Update

9. Top Trends in HPC The global economy in HPC appears to have leveled off • The first half of 2010 grew by 2% • We are forecasting 3% to 5% growth in 2010 • The high end of the market grew by 65% in 2009! Major challenges for datacenters: • Power, cooling, real estate, system management • Storage and data management continue to grow in importance Software hurdles will rise to the top for most users • Driven heavily by multi-core processors and hybrid systems • Application scaling and performance is a problem • SSDs will gain momentum and could redefine storage • GPUs are seeing real tractions in certain verticals • The worldwide Race on Petascale is in full speed

10. HPC Server Market Size By Competitive Segments (first half of 2010) HPC Servers $4,131M Workgroup (under $100K) $699M Supercomputers (Over $500K) $1,386M Divisional ($250K - $500K) $572M Departmental ($250K - $100K) $1,474M

11. HPC Market Results: Revenues and System Units

12. HPC Vendor Revenue Shares, Q210

13. Revenue Share by Vendor Supercomputer Segment, Q210

14. HPC Server Processor/Sockets Metrics, First Half of 2010

15. Industry/Application Segments

16. HPC Server Revenue($K) Forecast 2008 - 2014

17. Growth In The Broader HPC Market

18. Conclusions • 2010 is a year of evolutionary rather than revolutionary change in the worldwide HPC market • Incremental advances will help, but not resolve persistent issues, such as highly parallel programming challenges, power and cooling costs, and software licensing costs • IDC predicts the HPC market will resume growth in 2010 and grow by 3% to 5% in 2010 • And then will rebuild to exceed $11 billion by 2014 • The recovery will benefit HPC segments unevenly: • With hard-hit verticals such as automotive recovering more slowly than oil and gas, or government and academia • The Supercomputer segment growth will remain turbo-charged by government spending aimed at HPC leadership and “petaflop club” membership

19. Questions? Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com

20. Agenda: Day One • 12:45 HPC User Forum Welcome/Introductions, Steve Finn and Earl Joseph • 13:00 HLRS Welcome/Introductions, Michael Resch • 13:15 HPC in Europe from a PRACE Perspective, Thomas Eickermann • 13:45 Ideas About the Future of HPC in Europe, Bernhard Fabianek • 14:15 HPC Industrial Partnerships, Merle Giles, NCSA • 14:45 Vendor Technical Update, Microsoft New HPC Directions • 15:00 Break • 15:30 HPC in Japan, Dr. Toshikazu Takada • 16:00 Vendor Technology Update, T-Platforms • 16:15 Daimler Research Update, LinaLonghitano • 16:45 IDC EU HPC Recommendations for Leadership • 17:00 HPC at EXTOLL, Mondrian Nuessle • 17:30 After Meeting Socializing • 18:30 End of First Day

21. WelcomeTo Day 2 Of TheHPC User ForumMeeting

22. Important Dates For Your Calendar • FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: • International Meetings: • HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 7/8, 2010 • SARA Computing & Networking Services, Amsterdam, October 11/12, 2010 • Beijing, China, October 30th • 2011 US Meetings: • April 5 to 7, Houston, Texas • September 6 to 8, San Diego, California

23. Agenda: Day Two • 9:00 Welcome/Logistics, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn, BAE Systems • 9:10 A Perspective on HPC, Michael Resch, HLRS • 9:30 The PRACE industrial offer preview, Stefan Wesner, HLRS • 9:55 ASCS/Porsche End User HPC Site Update, Erich Schelkle • 10:20 High Performance Computing for Flight Projects at JPL, Chris Catherasoo, NASA JPL • 10:45 PRACE Industry Activities, Dr. Stefan Wesner • 11:00 Break • 11:35SimTech and Industry, Wolfgang Ehlers • 12:00 HPC Usage for Industrial-Relevant Combustion Problems, BenedettoRisio, RECOM • 12:30 HPC Research Using Jaguar at ORNL, Don Maxwell • 12:55 Wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn • 1:00 Farewell and Lunch

24. Agenda: Day Two • 11:35SimTechand Industry, Wolfgang Ehlers • 12:00 HPC Usage for Industrial-Relevant Combustion Problems, BenedettoRisio, RECOM • 12:30 HPC Research Using Jaguar at ORNL, Don Maxwell • 12:55 Wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn • 1:00 Farewell and Lunch

25. Important Dates For Your Calendar • FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: • International Meetings: • HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 7/8, 2010 • SARA Computing & Networking Services, Amsterdam, October 11/12, 2010 • Beijing, China, October 30th • 2011 US Meetings: • April 5 to 7, Houston, Texas • September 6 to 8, San Diego, California

26. Thank YouFor Attending The 38thHPC User ForumMeeting

27. Questions? Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com