What Cloud Can Do For Industry Panel at ISC 2016

Wednesday, June 22 | 01:45-02:45 pm Panorama 3 - Industry Track

Why did we select Software Providers for this panel?

- From all constituencies in the HPC Cloud space ISVs are the ones being closest to the end-user

- One of the greatest challenges for end-users to get to an HPC Cloud is often their ISV’s (traditional, modified) license model

- ISV licenses are usually an important cost factor

- The ISV choosing a well-suited HPC Cloud licensing model can drastically simplify cloud usage for end-users

Our Panelists

- Wim Slagter Director HPC and Cloud Marketing, ANSYS

- Winfried Geis Branch Manager, COMSOL Multiphysics GmbH

- Bill Bryce VP of Products at Univa

- Nicola Venuti Business Development Manager at NICE Software

HPC as a Service: benefits & challenges

HPC as a Service – Benefits:

Flexibility, business agility, scaling up and down, pay-per-use, instead of buying expensive HPC systems, but there are challenges too:

+ It’s a new business and working paradigm

+ Security, privacy, trust in service provider

+ Software Licensing

+ Data transfers

+ Losing control

ANSYS

Fluids

Structures

Electromagnetics

Thermal

Power Integrity

Systems

Embedded Software *BusinessWeek, FORTUNE

ANSYS Open Cloud StrategyTM

Multiple cloud platforms, vendors, solution and licensing types

COMSOL

Founded 1986 in Stockholm (as MATLAB distributor, FEMLAB) • 500 employees, subsidiaries in 16 countries, worldwide network of

distributors

The COMSOL idea • Focus on the essentials:

provide a comprehensive intuitive CAE-tool for everyone

The COMSOL platform • COMSOL Multiphysics & Application Builder • COMSOL Server (Application deployment) • COMSOL Certified Partners

COMSOL cloud related offering

COMSOL Multiphysics • Support for schedulers and remote computing (SSH) • Client-Server and job detaching for minimal data transfer

COMSOL Application Builder and Server • Wizard/IDE to create an application from any model • Worldwide access to COMSOL applications (e.g. via included web-portal)

COMSOL licensing • Independent of model size and design parameters • Independent of hardware resources used (tunneling allowed) • Cloud burst with included extra seat for job offloading

Univa

Univa is the leading innovator of workload orchestration and container optimization solutions • Univa Grid Engine – Manages workload for Big Compute and Big Data shared

infrastructures

• Univa Resource Broker – Mesos Framework runs unchanged in a Univa Grid Engine Cluster

• Univa Short Jobs - Build and manage large short running job workflows

• UniSight - Accounting, reporting and monitoring on one or more clusters

• UniCloud - Automates flexing of Big Compute and Big Data shared infrastructures

• Univa License Orchestrator - Ensures prioritized access to expensive software licenses

UniCloud

• Simple, Unified Management of Cloud Servers and Clusters • Supports multiple cloud models: Burst, Hybrid, Cloud, Multi-Cloud • Linux-based node provisioning and deployment tool • Fully automated configuration management of nodes • Add-on support for new virtualization/cloud platforms • Support for VMware vSphere, Google Compute Engine, Amazon EC2,

OpenStack, RackSpace, others can be added.

• Licensing is flexible: by core, host or deployment size. • No license enforcement in code – licensing by agreement. • Licensing typically tied to Univa Grid Engine usage.

Company:

– Focus on technical computing since 1996

– Partners all around the world

– Part of Amazon Web Service since March 2016

Expertise:

– Industry veterans around Technical Computing, HPC solutions and

Remote Visualization

Core business:

– Cloud infrastructures for Technical Computing

– Work, visualize, and collaborate in HPC

– EnginFrame and DCV product

About NICE

Technical Computing in the Cloud

• Workstation Mobility • Dynamic Sizing • Security: No data motion

• Efficient replacing • Cost controlling • Zero overhead

UberCloud

July 2012: Starting with community building and cloud experiments

Mar 2013: Developing HPC Docker => UberCloud CAE containers

Nov 2014: Opening online marketplace, 40 stores for engineers

Apr 2016: CAE software containers for: ANSYS, CD-adapco, CFDturbo, CFDSupport, COMSOL, Dacolt, Flow Science, Friendship Systems, LS-Dyna, NICE DCV, Numeca, OpenFOAM, Red Cedar, SIMULIA Abaqus, …

… On Cloud Resources from Advania, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Bull extreme factory, CPU 24/7, Google Compute Engine, OzenCloud…

Questions for the panelists

- Why have you added a cloud-based component to your products and services and what benefits do you expect for your company and your customers?

- When talking to your customers about cloud computing, what are still the major challenges they are facing ?

- How do you help them to overcome these challenges?

- ISVs themselves face a big challenge: jeopardizing their traditional license model and with that also their continuous revenue. How do you make sure that this won’t happen?

- Most of the cloud-related licensing models are still quite limited, not flexible enough, not fully on-demand, available only for a longer period (e.g. days, weeks, months). My experience is they want real on-demand solutions. Are you taking this into account (in the near future) ?

Containers remove challenges

Thank You !