Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) – Certified, Validated, and Supported HPC Solution

Laurence LiewPlatform Computinglliew@platform.com

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Agenda

Target Audience: Technical Sales Consultants

Duration: 30 mins (20 mins presentation, 10 mins Q&A)

Topics:Introduction to Platform ComputingPlatform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) and LSFIdentifying potential HPC opportunities

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Who We Are - Platform Computing

The world’s largest, most established provider of grid computing solutions

Over 2000 customers in many vertical markets Electronics, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive,

Life Sciences, Oil & Gas, Government, Universities & Research, Telco

Recognized leader and pioneer in grid computing 14 years in grid

Global offices, resellers and partners

Ongoing innovation in new product development & open standards

24x7 Worldwide service, support, and consulting

We are INTEL global partner for HPC – INTEL ESAA HPC recipe is a standard HPC offering based on Platform Open Cluster Stack which has been jointly

developed with the INTEL team.

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ElectronicsFinancial

Services

Industrial

Manufacturing

Life

Sciences

Government

& Research• AMD

• ATI• Broadcom• Cadence• Cisco• HP• IBM• Motorola• NVIDIA• Qualcomm• Samsung• ST Micro• Synopsys• TI• Toshiba

• Fidelity Investments

• HSBC

• JP Morgan Chase

• Mass Mutual

• Royal Bank of Canada

• Sal Oppenheim

• Société Générale

• Lehman

• BMW

• Boeing

• Bombardier

• British Aerospace

• Daimler Chrysler

• GE

• GM

• Lockheed Martin

• Pratt & Whitney

• Toyota

• Volkswagen

• AstraZeneca

• Bristol Myers- Squibb

• Celera

• Dupont

• GSK

• Johnson &Johnson

• Merck

• Novartis

• Pfizer

• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

• Wyeth

• ASCI

• CERN

• DoD, US

• DoE, US

• ENEA

• Fleet Numeric

• MaxPlanck

• SSC, China

• TACC

• Univ Tokyo

Other

Business

• Bell Canada

• Cablevision

• Ebay

• Starwood Hotels

• Telecom Italia

• Telefonica

• Sprint

• GE

• IRI

• Cadbury Schweppes

Our Customers

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The Linux Paradigm Shift

HPC YESTERDAY

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ExpensiveClosedSingle Source

HPC NEXT GENERATION

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Best of BreedOpen Source

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In the past, large UNIX servers were clustered together with systems management provided by IHVs - The stack was proprietary

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Platform OCS – Customer Positioning Perspective

• Modular and hybrid stack that integrates open source and commercial software into a single consistent cluster operating environment.

• 24x7 global enterprise support.

• Simplified Linux® clusters with integrated and comprehensive product and support solution.

• Pre-engineered and tested on select hardware for optimal simplicity and performance.

• Standard solution that reduces overall cost and maintenance assuring scalability and stability as the cluster grows.

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Platform OCS – Technical Perspective

C/C++/FortranMPI, Maths Libraries

HW DriversApplications

OCS is a HPC CLUSTER MANAGEMENT TOOL and

FRAMEWORK!• Provisioning (OS, applications)• Management (users, nodes)• Monitoring (nodes, processes..)• Plug-in framework for 3rd party

software

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Platform OCS Rolls (1)

Intel® Software Tools Roll* • Delivers Intel Compilers and Tools

Clumon Roll • Cluster interface for viewing ‘whole’ cluster status.  It is also a great cluster dashboard tool

Extra Tools Roll • Benchmark and Debugging Tools

Ganglia Roll • High level view of the entire cluster load and individual node load 

Intel MPI Runtime Roll • Libraries for running Applications compiled with Intel MPI

MatTool Roll** • Application for basic system management. Manage disks, DNS, users and temporary files

Modules Roll • Customize your environment settings including libraries, compilers, and environment variables 

* Available at an additional cost ** Free to non-commercial customers

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Platform OCS Rolls (2)

Myricom Myrinet® Roll • MPI libraries and Myrinet Drivers from Myricom

Ntop Roll • Monitor traffic on ethernet interfaces. Useful for debugging network traffic problems and passively collects network traffic on interfaces

Platform Lava Roll • Entry-level workload management provides commercial grade job execution, management and accounting. Based on Platform LSF

Platform LSF HPC Roll*• Intelligently schedule parallel and serial workloads to solve large, grand challenge problems while utilizing your available computing resources at maximum capacity

PVFS2 Roll • Provides high speed access to data for parallel applications

Infiniband™ Roll • IB drivers and MPI libraries from Cisco

Volcano Roll • Simple cluster portal for Platform Open Cluster Stack. Enables job submission, Linpack as a single user account

* Available at an additional cost ** Free to non-commercial customers

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Installing Platform OCS

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Installing Platform Open Cluster Stack

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Platform LSF – Accelerating Batch Workloads

Open, standards-based, modular, grid-enabled architecture for batch workloads

Shared virtual pool of grid-enabled, heterogeneous IT resources including desktops, servers, supercomputers and mainframes

Batch workload

submissions

Intelligent schedule and guarantee the completion of batch workload

Platform LSF HPC

In 3 of the top 5“TOP500

Supercomputer sites”

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What components do you need?

Required:

-Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) DVD Media Kit [$50/kit]

- Includes Platform OCS Enterprise Edition

-Platform OCS Cluster Care Support [$150/node/yr, $338/node/3yrs]

- 1 or 3 years support

-RHEL AS (head node, US$1499/node/yr) and RHEL WS HPCC (compute nodes, US$79/node/yr)

-Optional

-Platform LSF HPC Roll [$/socket]

-INTEL C/C++/Fortran Compilers [user license]

-INTEL Cluster Tools (MPI, Maths libraries) [user license]

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How to identify potential customers

Typical HPC request are from the engineering departments (commercial organisations) or the scientist/professors/researchers (academic/R&D)

Seldom from the MIS or central IT administration (they deal more with IT infrastructure like emails, web, etc)

Target organisations :

Universities, govt R&D labs, Institute of Higher Learning, polytechnics

Engineering companies: aerospace/car/ship building, electronics (design of CPUs, circuits and chips), oil and gas, manufacturing (process optimisation)

Others: Lifescience, digital media, finance

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Where to sell Platform OCS ?

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The End

Thank you

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact:

Laurence Liew – lliew@platform.com +65-6232-2363

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Qualifying Questions

Starting the conversation:

Does the customer have SMP machines in production? IBM, HP, Sun, SGI, DEC

What business applications are running on their SMPs?

What is the nature of the application? Batch? On-line transaction processing?

Is it compute intensive?

How long does it take to run? Would it be of benefit to run faster?

How often does it run? Would you run it more often if you could? Why don’t you?

What is the growth projection for the app? Will it be processing more data in the future?

If the customer is technical:

Is the application CPU intensive? I/O intensive? Or is there a large volume of compute workload?

Does the application have an analytic profile?

Does the application “parallelizable”?

Can the application components be scheduled?

Can the application or data be broken into smaller chunks?

Can the application technically capable of faster performance?

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Platform LSF – Accelerating Batch Workloads

Open, standards-based, modular, grid-enabled architecture for batch workloads

Shared virtual pool of grid-enabled, heterogeneous IT resources including desktops, servers, supercomputers and mainframes

Batch workload

submissions

Intelligent schedule and guarantee the completion of batch workload

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Platform LSF Components

Platform LSF

Platform LSF HPC

Platform LSF MultiCluster

Platform LSF Analytics

Platform LSF Reports

Platform LSF License Scheduler

Platform Process Manager

MacroVision FlexNet Manager Reporting Module

Process ManagerProcess Manager