Making Supercomputing More Available

and AccessibleWindows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2

Microsoft High Performance Computing

April, 2010

The Landscape

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The landscape

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In a world with an insatiable and growing appetite for data

computational performance is critical. Science, industry and government alike now face the

problem of too much information.

Supercomputing power helps scientists, engineers and analysts

extract meaning from the data deluge, speeding research, development and discovery.

Continued increases in processing power are now only possible by

increasing the number of cores per chip—a hardware issue just became a software problem.

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

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Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 makes supercomputing broadly available

and accessible to the scientists, engineers and analysts who need it most

Offers world class

performance

Takes advantage of

existing technology

investments and skills

Makes supercomputing

simple to manage and easy to use

Today’s Milestone:

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

Beta 2

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Sustained

Commitment to

Performance

HPC Services for

Excel 2010

Momentum

Cluster of

Workstations

Interoperability

Momentum

Sustained commitment to performanceWindows matches Linux performance on

ANSYS FLUENT 12.0, other benchmarks

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Deep engagement within the Top500,

including mixed CPU/GPGPU clusters

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Courtesy of ANSYS, Inc

Reference: Dataset is External Flow over a Truck Body, 14M cells, public benchmark. ANSYS FLUENT 12.0 data to be

posted at http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl6bench/new.htm. Same hardware configuration (IBM System x®

iDataPlex™ platform with 2.66GHz Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500, 24GB DDR3 memory per node, Mellanox Connect-

X® InfiniBand) was used for both Windows HPC Server 2008 and Linux runs.

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Sustained commitment to performanceMaximizing parallel HPC applications

Integration with Windows HPC

Server 2008 R2: MS-MPI, Interactive

SOA-based applications, HPC

Services for Excel 2010

Parallel Computing Platform: Makes

parallel programming easier and more

productive

GPU computing: NVIDIA Parallel

Nsight 1.0 accelerates CPU + GPU

application development

Extensive third party support for

Visual Studio: Intel Parallel Studio

Development Toolkit plug-ins,

OpenMP support

Cluster of workstations

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Expand the capacity of HPC clusters while increasing the return on existing

technology investments by utilizing desktop cycles as part of overall

HPC infrastructure

New ability to add Windows 7

workstations as compute nodes

View and monitor workstations the

same as dedicated compute nodes

Time of day scheduling for workstation

availability

Draining interval for graceful

preemption

Rocks+ Hybrid dual boot solution allows easy

deployment of Windows HPC Server alongside

Linux on shared hardware.

Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster allocates Windows

and Linux HPC resources dynamically based on

policies and current workload demand.

MOAB Adaptive HPC Suite works with Windows

HPC Server to intelligently allocate jobs across

Linux and Windows, scaling Windows HPC Server

as necessary.

Interoperability momentumWindows and Linux HPC working together

Microsoft collaborates with industry-leading HPC management companies to

enable hybrid solutions, helping organizations get more out of HPC

investments and provide broader access to HPC resources.

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Dual Boot HPC Clusters

Dynamic HPC Clusters

Interoperability momentumHybrid HPC clusters

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Microsoft Excel is frequently used as the programming

environment for computation and simulations. HPC

Services for Excel 2010 helps enable:

Better business decisions by running larger, more

sophisticated models

Faster response to market trends and more competitive

advantage, by reducing total time to results

Easier regulatory compliance

Top systems integrators and consultants including Wipro, Infusion and Grid Dynamics are

now ready to help customers increase business agility and accelerate time to results by easily

transitioning desktop calculations to Windows HPC computations.

HPC Services for Excel 2010 momentum

Life Insurance Actuarial workbook examples

1700 records that took 14 hours now take 2.5

minutes

1 million records that took 7.5 days now take 2

hours

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