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Collaboration with Industry

from HPC to Grids

Michael M. ReschHöchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS)

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A Grid since 1995

Fileserver

Stuttgart NEC SX-6(48)

NEC IA32 (416) Cray Strider+XD1

Opteron (400)

IA64 (48)

NEC SX-8 (576)

DALCO Viz-ClusterOpteron (64)

NEC/HP/BullSUN Fire 6800

(96)

UlmNEC Asama (64)

VR Cave

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Public-Private Joint Venture

• Name: High Performance Computing Center for Academia and Industry

• Acronym: hww• Initial share holders:

– HLRS/University of Stuttgart (12.5%)– T-Systems & T-Systems sfr (40%)– Porsche AG (10%)– State of Baden-Württemberg (12.5%)– Other universities (25%)

• Purpose: – Buy and sell CPU-Time– Operate Systems

• Directors:– Dr. Heib (T-Systems)– Prof. Rühle (University of Stuttgart)

Univ. StuttgartOther PublicT-SystemsPorsche

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Business Concept

OperationHostingSimulationOptimization

OperationSecurityAccounting

DesignOptimization

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Requirements (1995)

• Access Issues– Networks– Interoperability

• Security Issues– Access control– Data integrity

• Reliability– Availability of system– Escalation strategy

• Business Concept– Total cost of ownership– Accounting

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Networks

networks

Vaihingen

Universität Stuttgart 

10 GBit/s

100 MBit/s

1 GBit/s

1 GBit/s

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Industrial Usage 2004-2007

CPU Hours

-

500.000

1.000.000

1.500.000

2.000.000

2004 2005 2006 2007

Others

Porsche

T-Systems

Porsche Panamera

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Running Costs

• Running Costs (average over the last 5 years)– Staff (University/State of BW/Industry)– Electricity/Cooling (University/Industry)– Building (University/State/Industry)– Maintenance (University/Industry)

Cost in K€

122529%

170040%

2005%

90021%

2005%

Staff (Permanent)

Maintenance

Software

Electricity/Cooling

Small Invest

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Investment Costs

• Investment– 50% State of Baden-Württemberg– 50% Federal Government– Additional funding from industry

Investment in M€

24,7236%

27,7240%

16,1624%

State of BW

Federal Gvnmt.

Industry

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Distribution of Running Costs

Costs in K€

210054%900

23%

90023%

State of BW

University

Industry

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Situation 2007

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New Customers

• Bertrandt• BTB• DaimlerChrysler• Kärcher• Mahle• Porsche• RECOM• Transsolar

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Mixed Reality - Applications along the Product Development Process

DesignDesign

EngineeringEngineering ManufacturingManufacturing

SalesSales

ServiceService

GRID

Ralf Lamberti, Director Product Creation & Information Technologies

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Technological Focuses

Energy for the Future

Digital Planning Processes

Accident Free Driving

Cars of the Future

36 Fuel Cell Busses 60 A-Class Cars for Customers in Operation 323 Orion Hybrid Busses for MTA New York

Night Vision System Automatic Emergency Braking

Networked Vehicle New Body and Chassis Concepts

1 2 3

4

Ralf Lamberti, Director Product Creation & Information Technologies

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Requirements (2007)

• Access Issues– Networks– Interoperability

• Security Issues– Access control– Data integrity

• Reliability– Availability of system– Escalation strategy

• Business Concept– Total cost of ownership– Accounting

• Ease of use– Invisible security– Automatic process handling

• Integrated solution– Hardware, Middleware, ISV-Software– Visualization & control

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Tech. & Econ. Environment

• Technology– Still rapid hardware development– Speed through extreme parallelism

• Economics– Non-linear reduction of HPC costs– Shift of costs from hardware to software (licensing

issues)– Lack of competitiveness after 12-18 months

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Science or Industry

• Goal– Breakthrough or best solution

• Purpose of HPC– Object of investigation or tool

• Technical Issues– Interesting or irrelevant

• Legal issues– Irrelevant or basis of business

• Economic issues– Relevant or key to success

• Mode of collaboration– Cooperation or competition

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Recomm. for HPC – Grids - Industry

1. It is necessary to identify mutual interests of HPC@science and HPC@industry

2. It is necessary to identify a working business model by addressing the legal issues and economic issues of a mixed usage model

3. It is necessary to identify the required technical solutions to deliver the requested high level service and not CPU cycles