Supercomputing: a new era
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1 © Bull July 2012 Andrew CARR Sales & Marketing Director, Bull UK Supercomputing: a new era? http://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrewcarr2
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July 2012 Andrew CARR
Sales & Marketing Director, Bull UK
Supercomputing: a new era?
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrewcarr2
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At the beginning of the supercomputing era… With limited ‘application’
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Requiring a huge amount of money, resources and skills
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And significant challenges
Access & Collaboration
GPU / Multi-core
The Cloud
Leveraging Massive Data
Porting of codes
Parallel Computing
Energy Consumption
To meet an ever increasing portfolio of needs Against a backdrop of continuous performance development
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« Moving from being the smartest buyers of HPC to the smartest users of HPC »
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The Cloud is [changing] everything
New ways to consume Performant Computing
New ways to produce Performant Computing
as a Service
Dynamic provisioning
On-demand
Elastic
Configurable
Automation
Orchestration
Customer Business Platform
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Can we industrialise HPC in the same way as IT?
One type of aircraft (A320)
Accelerated rotations
Short and medium haul, direct routes
Sale of tickets on the Internet
Standardized, commoditized data centers
Server load maximized
Catalogued applications and services
Services portals, APIs
Single class Defined service levels
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More users, more services, new delivery models
Scientists
Small labs
Large corporations
Central govt.
Research
Innovation
A few hours
Several months
Several years
Marketing
Regional centers
World-class centers
Finance
Production
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Delivering supercomputing as a service
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The power of Cloud HPC
Lower costs through shared, pooled resources
New economic models Opex based
Lower entry barriers No further investment in complex supercomputers
Ability to share workloads within communities and industry sectors
Sovereignty of data
Workload elasticity Large system simulation
Faster execution
The Cloud model provides an opportunity to industrialise and regulate usage of HPC within all industrial sectors, especially ‘the missing middle’
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Inventing new applications and services
Develop and provide new applications and services
to support advanced health telemetrics; wellbeing
Healthcare
Accelerate innovation in all industry and services sectors
including SMEs; the great white horse
Manufacturing and Services
Anticipate pandemic, ecological and food
crisis, improve public safety: critical national infrastructure
Social, Environment, Homeland Security
Develop and deliver digital content (HD/3D) ; exponential data
Culture and Multimedia
Cloud HPC is facilitating the emergence of new services and ecosystems
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Commission Output through Cloud Models
Added value services (Culture & Multimedia)
Added value services (Social & Environment)
Added value services
(Healthcare)
Added value services
(Manufacturing & Svces)
Customer
Services
Portal
(Market
Places)
Manufacturing
& Services
Healthcare
Culture
& Multimedia
Social &
Environment
Applications (SaaS)
Shared
supercomputing
platform
Extended
Supply
Chain
Access
(Private
Cloud
Service
Provision)
Access & Collaboration will ultimately deliver next generation HPC
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