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Welcome To The
HPC User Forum
Meeting
April 2009
Events
Monday afternoon:
 We are using a new format of starting mid-day on
Monday – let us know how you like it
 Don’t forget to sign up for the Wednesday afternoon
Virginia Tech tour
Monday and Tuesday Evening:
 Vendor Technology Updates
 Student HPC projects
Thank You To Our Sponsors!
Monday Dinner - IBM and Intel
Tuesday Breakfast - Platform Computing
Tuesday Lunch - Appro International and AMD
Wednesday Breakfast - Mellanox Technologies
Wednesday Lunch - Altair Engineering
Monday Agenda
1:00pm
1:30pm
4:00pm
4:15pm
4:55pm
5:15pm
5:45pm
6:30pm
7:00pm
HPC in a Challenging Economy: IDC HPC market update and new
forecasts
Breakthrough Computing in Petascale Applications and Petascale
System Examples
1:30pm Peta-applications program at LBL-NERSC, Harvey Wasserman
2:00pm Roadrunner/Cell, Kenneth Koch, LANL
2:30pm Peta-applications program at ORNL, Doug Kothe
3:00pm NCSA Blue Waters Directions, Merle Giles
3:30pm Challenges that have to be overcome for petascale (and
beyond) computing, Robert Wisniewski, IBM Watson Labs
Break
Vendor technology update: Steve Wallach, Convey
Supporting Industrial HPC Users: Nimbis Services update: bringing
HPC to SMB, Robert Graybill
Intel's perspective on HPC requirements and alternative processors,
Steve Pawlowski
Break for networking and hotel checking in
Reception starts
Special Dinner Event and short vendor technology updates to provide
an overview of changes in the industry (Altair, Appro, IBM, Panasas,
Penguin Computing, ScaleMP, SpectraLogic)
IDC Economic And Market
Update Slides
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Monday Agenda
1:00pm
1:30pm
4:00pm
4:15pm
4:55pm
5:15pm
5:45pm
6:30pm
7:00pm
HPC in a Challenging Economy: IDC HPC market update and new
forecasts
Breakthrough Computing in Petascale Applications and Petascale
System Examples
1:30pm Peta-applications program at LBL-NERSC, Harvey Wasserman
2:00pm Roadrunner/Cell, Kenneth Koch, LANL
2:30pm Peta-applications program at ORNL, Doug Kothe
3:00pm NCSA Blue Waters Directions, Merle Giles
3:30pm Challenges that have to be overcome for petascale (and
beyond) computing, Robert Wisniewski, IBM Watson Labs
Break
Vendor technology update: Steve Wallach, Convey
Supporting Industrial HPC Users: Nimbis Services update: bringing
HPC to SMB, Robert Graybill
Intel's perspective on HPC requirements and alternative processors,
Steve Pawlowski
Break for networking and hotel checking in
Reception starts
Special Dinner Event and short vendor technology updates to provide
an overview of changes in the industry (Altair, Appro, IBM, Panasas,
Penguin Computing, ScaleMP, SpectraLogic)
Thank You To
IBM and Intel
For Dinner!
Monday Dinner Vendor Updates
Altair Engineering
Appro
Dell
IBM
Panasas
Penguin Computing
ScaleMP
SpectraLogic
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Welcome To The
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April 2009
Thank You To
IBM and Intel For Dinner!
Thank You To
Platform Computing
For Breakfast
Introduction: Logistics
Ask Mary if you need a receipt
Meals and events
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Tuesday dinner plans
Wednesday tours/meetings
We have a very tight agenda (as usual)
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Please help us keep on time!
Review handouts
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Note: We will post most of the presentations on
the web site
Please complete the evaluation form
Important Dates For Your Calendar
FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS
US MEETINGS:
 September 8, 9, 10, 2009 Broomfield, Colorado at
the Omni Interlocken Resort
– Note: Tuesday to Thursday
 April 12, 13, 14, 2010 Dearborn, Michigan at the
Dearborn Inn
 September 2010 Seattle Washington
INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2009:
 June 23 to 26, 2009 ISC09 in Hamburg Germany
 October 5 and 6, 2009 Stuttgart, Germany at
HLRS/University of Stuttgart
 October 7 and 8, 2009 Lausanne Switzerland at
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Agenda: Day One, Tuesday Morning
8:00am
8:10am
Introductions And Welcome, Steve Finn and Earl Joseph
Driving Competitiveness in Product Design
Trends and Future HPC Requirements in Product Design and
Development
Morning chair: Steve Finn, BAE
HPC for vehicle design, Sharan Kalwani
Using HPC for advanced aerospace design, Doug Ball, Boeing
9:15am End User Update: Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington UniversityNSF Center for Reconfigurable Computing
9:40am Break
10:00am Panel on I/O and Storage Requirements and Directions
Moderators: Sharan Kalwani and Jim Kasdorf, PSC
Panel members: Constantin Scheder, General Atomics; Henry Newman,
Instrumental, Peter Bojanic, Sun, Jason Sommerfield, PSC, Garth
Gibson, Panasas, LSI, John Josephakis, DDN
11:20am Silent data corruption in HPC, Henry Newman
11:45am ParaMEDIC: Parallel Metadata Environment for Distributed I/O and
Computing, Wu Feng, Virgina Tech
12:10pm Lunch
Lunch Break
Thanks to
Appro International and AMD
Please Return Promptly at 1:00pm
Thank You
Appro International and AMD
For Lunch
Agenda: Day One, Tuesday Afternoon
1:00pm
2:40pm
3:00pm
3:20pm
3:35pm
4:50pm
6:30pm
Driving Competitiveness in Product Design
Afternoon chair: Paul Buerger, OSC, Trends and Future HPC
Requirements in Product Design and Development
1:00pm HPC for advanced product design, Ramesh Krishnan, ATK
1:25pm Using HPC in the DOD HPCMP for virtual design/testing, Ken
Lesueur, Army
1:50pm HPC for drug discovery and bio research, Jack Collins, NCI
2:15pm Using HPC for product design/testing in IT at Intel, Shesha
Krishnapura, Intel
Simulating the Spread of Infectious Disease over Large Realistic Social
Networks, Keith Bisset, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Supporting Industrial HPC Users -- Bringing HPC to industry: OSC Blue
Collar Computing, Stan Ahalt
Break
Back-End Compiler Technology Panel
Moderators: Robert Singleterry, NASA Langley and Vince Scarafino,
industry expert
Panel members: Luiz DeRose, Cray, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech,
Don Kretsch, Sun, Steve Rowan, Convey, Robert Geva, Intel, Kevin Harris,
SiCortex,
Supporting Industrial HPC Users: New directions at the Council on
Competitiveness, David Padgham
Special Dinner Event and short vendor technology updates to provide an
overview of changes in the industry and Examples of developing a new
generation of HPC talent and leaders: (Virginia Tech student HPC
projects, Mellanox, Open Fabric Alliance, SGI, siXis, Sun)
Tuesday Dinner Vendor Updates
Virginia Tech Student HPC Projects
HP
Mellanox
Open Fabric Alliance
SGI
siXis
Sun
Welcome
To Day 3 Of The
HPC User Forum
Meeting
Thank You To
Mellanox Technologies
For Breakfast
Important Dates For Your Calendar
FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS
US MEETINGS:
 September 8, 9, 10, 2009 Broomfield, Colorado at
the Omni Interlocken Resort
– Note: Tuesday to Thursday
 April 12, 13, 14, 2010 Dearborn, Michigan at the
Dearborn Inn
 September 2010 Seattle Washington
INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2009:
 June 23 to 26, 2009 ISC09 in Hamburg Germany
 October 5 and 6, 2009 Stuttgart, Germany at
HLRS/University of Stuttgart
 October 7 and 8, 2009 Lausanne Switzerland at
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
IDC End User Study
Sample Findings
IDC HPC End User Data Initiative
IDC has collected vendor or supply-side data for years
 Good for “bulk” market properties like market shares, but …
 Many market details must be “modeled,” and some …
 Important details are opaque to the sales event
IDC user or demand-side effort initiated at April, 2007
 Clients wanted more insight into HPC market
– Look at HPC component hardware, software technologies
– Collect both quantitative and descriptive data
– Means of validating supply-side data
 Large kick-off sample, followed by regular updates
– Necessarily imperfect sampling, but still …
– Very labor intensive
HPC End User Study Features
Fourteen page survey with over fifty major Qs
 Site demographics, market segment related Qs
– 110 sites surveyed (small, medium, large)
– Industry (51), academia (43), government (16)
– Application workloads (CAE, EDA, geosciences, etc.)
 System and budget related Qs
– Systems (largest two, most recent), type, etc.
– Current budget components (system, interconnect, etc.)
– Budget growth trends, component market forecasts
 Component technology Qs, produce 6 reports, sold individually
– Cluster (system) report
– Processor, storage, and interconnect reports
– System software, applications software reports
>>>> Full Data sheet hits Excel’s column limit! <<<<
Reasons for acquiring HPC,
10 – most important, 1 – least important
Table 9: Reasons for acquiring HPC systems -- average ranking of the importance,
10 -- most important, 1 -- least important
New/ better science
8
16%
Run larger problems
7
15%
Throughput
7
15%
Price/ Performance
6
13%
Competitiveness
6
12%
TCO
6
12%
Capacity Management
6
11%
Regulations/ Certification
3
7%
50
100%
Total Responses
Source: IDC, 2009
Preferred Cluster Purchase Channel
Cluster Purchase Channel
Channel
Mentions
%
33
79%
Through a vendor's channel partner
8
19%
Through vendor's website
1
2%
42
100%
Directly from vendor's sales force
Grand Total
Source: IDC, 2009
End User Interconnect Profile
Backbone storage protocol prevalence, site’s
largest storage system
Storage protocol
Count
Percentag
e
Fibre Channel (1)
43
49%
Ethernet (2)
29
33%
InfiniBand (3)
11
13%
Local bus
3
3%
Cray
1
1%
Total
87
100%
End User Interconnect Profile
Backbone storage protocol prevalence, site’s
newest storage system
Storage protocol
Count Percentage
Ethernet (rank up 1, +6%)
24
39%
Fibre Channel (rank down 1, -15%)
InfiniBand (rank same, +8%)
21
13
34%
21%
Local bus
San/FC
2
1
3%
2%
SAS
1
2%
Total
62
100%
Questions?
Please email:
[email protected]
Or check out:
www.hpcuserforum.com
Agenda: Day Two, Wednesday
8:00am
8:00am
9:50am
10:15am
10:35am
10:50am
12:00pm
12:30pm
1:15pm
1:15pm
2:00pm
Welcome, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn
Using HPC to Drive New Energy Solutions and Efficiency
8:00am Major US Government Initiatives in Alternative Energy, ARPA-E and
petascale applications, Gil Weigand, ORNL
8:30am Victor Reis, Petascale plans and ARPA-E
9:00am Wind Power: Site selection and Machine Design via HPC, Steve M.
Legensky, Intelligent Light
9:25am Cooling issues, directions and solutions, Roger Panton, Avetec
Shared memory-like compiler framework, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia
Tech
Supporting Industrial HPC Users: DOE INCITE program, Julia White, ORNL
Break
Alternative Processors Technology Panel
Users will discuss their real-world experiences with FGPAs, GPGPUs, Cell
and other non-traditional HPC processors, vendors will address these
requirements
Moderator: Paul Muzio, CUNY and Jack Collins, NCI-ABCC
Panel members: Kenneth Koch, LANL; Wu Feng, Virgina Tech, Paul Muzio,
CUNY, Stephen Bique, NRL, Olaf Storaasli, ORNL, Sanford Russell, Nvidia
Using VM and Cloud in HPC, William Lu, Platform Computing. The
presentation will discuss use cases, challenges and potential solutions for
using VM in HPC environments.
Introducing the HPC Advisory Council, GM, Dell, AMD, Mellanox
Meeting Wrap-Up and Future Meeting Dates, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn
Lunch
Virginia Tech visit and tour, and individual one-on-one meetings
Thank You
Altair Engineering
For Lunch
Important Dates For Your Calendar
FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS
US MEETINGS:
 September 8, 9, 10, 2009 Broomfield, Colorado at
the Omni Interlocken Resort
– Note: Tuesday to Thursday
 April 12, 13, 14, 2010 Dearborn, Michigan at the
Dearborn Inn
 September 2010 Seattle Washington
INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2009:
 June 23 to 26, 2009 ISC09 in Hamburg Germany
 October 5 and 6, 2009 Stuttgart, Germany at
HLRS/University of Stuttgart
 October 7 and 8, 2009 Lausanne Switzerland at
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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Questions?
Please email:
[email protected]
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www.hpcuserforum.com
Questions?
Please email:
[email protected]
Or check out:
www.hpcuserforum.com
HPC User Forum
Steering Committee
Meeting
April 2009
How Did The Meeting Go?
What worked well?
What needs to be changed or improved?
Date and location for the next Steering
Committee meeting?
Important Dates For Your Calendar
FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS
US MEETINGS:
 September 8, 9, 10, 2009 Broomfield, Colorado at
the Omni Interlocken Resort
– Note: Tuesday to Thursday
 April 12, 13, 14, 2010 Dearborn, Michigan at the
Dearborn Inn
 September 2010 Seattle Washington
INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2009:
 June 23 to 26, 2009 ISC09 in Hamburg Germany
 October 5 and 6, 2009 Stuttgart, Germany at
HLRS/University of Stuttgart
 October 7 and 8, 2009 Lausanne Switzerland at
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Questions?
Please email:
[email protected]
Or check out:
www.hpcuserforum.com
New IDC HPC Research Areas
• Quarterly HPC Forecast Updates
 Until the world economy recovers
• New HPC End-user Based Reports:
 Clusters, processors, storage, interconnects, system software,
and applications
• Power and Cooling Research
• Developing a Market Model For Middleware and
Management Software
• Extreme Computing
• Data Center Assessment and Benchmarking
• Tracking Petascale and Exascale Initiatives