windows azure and hpc
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Windows Azure and HPC. Scenarios and workload Overview. Problem Statement. To meet its statutory obligations for daily processing of space and terrestrial radio service notices and to solve complex problems, ITU has a need to perform CPU intensive calculations in a limited timeframe. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Windows Azure and HPC
Scenarios and workload Overview
Problem StatementTo meet its statutory obligations for daily processing of space and terrestrial radio service notices and to solve complex problems, ITU has a need to perform CPU intensive calculations in a limited timeframe.Thus, as a component of IT system, ITU have developed a local distributed infrastructure which is currently used to manage the workload of calculations-on-demand submitted by our Membership. Such a workload is greatly time-dependent and is based on the pull model, with a database acting as the master and a number of Windows services as the slaves.
ITU Cloud Architecture
Bandwidth charges Europe + North America Other locations 100 GB $12.00 $19.00
Storage Geo Redundant(with second sub region storage)
Locally redundant(with single sub region)
1000 GB $125 $93 Transaction Geo Redundant(with second
sub region storage) Locally redundant(with single sub region)
10 Million $1 $1
The Windows Azure Platform
Windows Azure Platform
Developer ExperienceUse existing skills and tools.
“Operating system in the
cloud”
Compute Storage Management Relational data
MarketplaceApp FabricCDN Management
“Middlewarein the cloud” “Relational
databasein the cloud”
Microsoft HPC Scenarios overview
On-premise
Desktop User
HPC Head Node
Broker Node(s)
HPC Cluster
Desktop Compute Cloud via Idle Win 7 Workstation Cores
Azure Compute Instances
Azure Compute Proxies
Microsoft components for HPC
HPC Editio
n
Head Node
WCF Broker Nodes
4. Requests
6. Responses
Compute Nodes
Workstation
5. Responses
3. Requests
2. HN provides WCF Broker node
to Client and Session Manager
assigns WCF Broker node for
Client job
1. Create Session
SOA on an HPC Cluster
AzureCN1…….AzureCNx
On PremiseWindows HPC Server 2008 R2 +SOA scheduler
Dedicated nodes – HPC Servers 2008 R2Cycle scavenging – Windows 7 desktops
Solution
Burst in AzureWindows HPC Server 2008 R2 Azures Nodes
Extend the on-premise cluster to the cloud, absorb peak demand, keep windows HPC applications performing without change.
Solution
With your Azure subscription add additional resources when you need themPay only when you use them
Applications in Azure
Multiple business models• Application usage is
licensed to customers
• Application and compute is provided as a service in the cloud
Scheduler and Runtimes Supported in Azure• Embedded Azure
Scheduler, not a Head Node
• All runtimes: Parametric Sweep, MPI, Cluster SOA, Excel
Solution Application in hosted entirely in Azure
• No on-premise Head Node
Application is accessed from• Rich client on premise• Web Application or portal• Web Service
Timescale compression
Buy a server
1
100
1 1001 server 100 weeks
100 servers 1 week*£8k
$8k
Examples of Azure HPC Workloads Finance (CM+ Insurance)
Risk/Analytics ESG/ALM
Media Encode/Transcode Analytics
Life science Genomics Cell profiling
Engineering/Universities Some optimisation simulations
Spreadsheet
Head Node
Brokers
Request Sessio
n
Broker
Assignment
Job SubmissionTask
Assignment
Resul
tsResults
Excel Workbooks on the Cluster
Thank you..
Questions ??