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Zane Adam, Director of Windows Server Division

Annemarie Duffy, Infrastructure Server Team Manager

Date: June 9th 2006

Contents

HPC Market View

Microsoft Approach

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

Target Verticals

Today’s News

Market Perspective

Microsoft Approach to HPCMake it Simple

DeploymentManagementDevelopment

Make the right PartnershipsCommercialAcademic

Make it MainstreamWindows Server InfrastructureWindows XPVisual Studio 2005Microsoft Excel

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

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High speed, low latency interconnect

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Desktop App

Cmd line

Job Mgmt

Resource Mgmt

Cluster Mgmt

Head Node

Node Manager

User AppJob Execution

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Admin ConsoleCmd line

User Console

AdministrationPrescriptive, simplified cluster setup and administration (MMC, user console)Scripted, image-based compute node management (RIS, SDM, Job Scheduler)Active Directory based securityScalable, extensible job scheduling and resource management

DevelopmentMPICH2 from Argonne National Lab with performance and security enhancementsCluster scheduler programmable via DCOM and .NETVisual Studio 2005 – OpenMP, Parallel Debugger

Target Verticals

Institutes of HPC

Cornell Theory CenterIthaca, NY USA

University of TennesseeKnoxville, TN USA

University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA USA

University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT USA

TACC – University of TexasAustin, TX USA

Southampton UniversitySouthampton, UK

HLRS – University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai, PRC

Tokyo Institute of TechnologyTokyo, Japan

Nizhni Novgorod University

Nizhni Novgorod, Russia

NCSA– University of Illinois

USA

Announcing…

Release to Manufacturing: Microsoft’s first HPC solution, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

General availability: Early August

Pricing/Licensing:  Availability in the volume license channel with an estimated price of $469 per node

OEM (embedded, system builder, OEM); volume licensing, MSDN/TechNet for download, evaluation version

Partners

Reduced design cost through improved engineer productivity

Reduced time to market

Increased product performance

Lower computing acquisition and maintenance costs

Use Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003, workflow orchestra-tion, and developer tools to deliver inter-operable, secure design platform based on CFD framework

Complex, lengthy design cycle with difficult collaboration and little knowledge reuse

High costs due to expensive computing infrastructure

Advanced IT skills required of engineers, slowing design

Aerospace firm speeds design, improves performance, lowers costs with clustered computing

“Simplifying our fluid dynamics engineering platform will increase our ability to bring solutions to market and reduce

risk and cost to both BAE Systems and its customers.”Jamil Appa, Group Leader, Technology and Engineering Services,

BAE Systems

More research groups are now using HPC applications

Researchers can now run larger data models and free up desktop for other tasks

Research-driven university deploys Compute Cluster Server, enabling broader access of HPC to new users

and applications

“Windows Compute Cluster Server offers Queen’s University users the ability to solve complex

computational problems in a user-friendly environment.” Professor Ken Bell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University, Belfast

University with a dynamic world-class research and education portfolio wanted to offer HPC to new users and applications

Wanted to expand the use of HPC to user groups lacking in-depth computing skills

Deployed Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 to enable researchers to solve complex computational problems by running financial modelling, imaging, and engineering applications

National Center for Atmospheric Research - Weather Research Forecasting Model

Next generation numerical weather prediction systemIn production use at US National Weather Service and Air Force Weather Agency and >3,000 usersOriginally developed for Unix systems. 360,000 lines of code in C++, Fortran, OpenMP and MPI750 lines required modification to produce native Win64 binary that ran on Windows CCS/MPI

“Windows emergence as a viable HPC operating system broadens the range of computational resources for atmospheric research and weather forecasting and presents a significant opportunity to the WRF user community.”

John MichalakesWRF Principal Developer

High Performance ComputingCutting edge problems in science, engineering and business always require capabilities beyond those of standalone computers

Market pressures demand accelerated innovation cycle, overall cost reduction and thorough outcome modeling

Aircraft design utilizing composite materials

Vehicle fuel efficiency and safety improvements

Simulations of enzyme catalysis, protein folding

Targeted material and drug design

Simulation of nanoscale electronic devices

Financial portfolio risk modeling

Digital content creation and enhancement

Supply chain modeling and optimization

Long term climate projections

Volume economics of industry standard Volume economics of industry standard hardware and commercial software hardware and commercial software applications are rapidly bringing HPC applications are rapidly bringing HPC capabilities to broader number of userscapabilities to broader number of users