Open Cloud Computing
A Case for HPC
CRO NGI Day
Zagreb, Oct, 26th
Philippe Trautmann
HPC Business Development Manager
Global Education @ Research
Agenda
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The Cloud
•
HPC and Cloud: any needs?
•
Cloud Computing from Sun
•
Getting Started
The Cloud
●The illusion of
infinite computing
resources
●The elimination of
an up-front
commitment
●
Pay for use of
computing
resources
What Does Cloud Mean?
“ A
fundamental shift in the computing paradigm
”
- Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft
“
The return of the mainframe, and the mainframe is a set of computers. You never visit
them, you never see them. But they're out there.”
- Eric Schmidt, CEO Google
“It's nothing more than a faddish term for the established concept of computers linked by
networks. A cloud is water vapour”
- Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle
“
You build your app, and you inherit our architecture”
- Marc Benioff, CEO SalesForce.com
“The Truth Is Rarely Pure And Never Simple”
Public
Business Models
Private
Hybrid
You don’t know
who else is on the
same server,
network or disk
that you are
You own the server,
network and disk,
and decide who
gets to run on it with
you
You own some
parts and are
sharing some
parts, though in a
Application Domains
Domains Drive Differences
in Hardware and Software Architecture
HPC
Intelligence
Medical
Analytics
Finance
Web
Faster time-to-market
Reduction of custom
software
Pay only for what you
use
Grow infrastructure
with business
Cloud Computing Layers
Applications offered on-demand over
the network (salesforce.com)
Basic storage and compute capabilities offered
as a service (Amazon web services)
Developer platform with built-in services
(Google App Engine)
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
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HPC market
requirements
HPC Market Overview
Server Revenue by IDC Competitive Segments
Segment Price Range
Supercomputer $500K and up $2.58 3.20% 1.50%
Division $250K - $500K $1.30 1.60% -0.70%
Department $100k - $250K $3.62 7.10% -0.04%
Workgroup <100K $1.73 1.90% -0.06%
2009
TAM $B (07 – 13)CAGR DOWN SIDECAGR
HP IBM Dell Other Sun
HP
IBM
DELL
Other
SUN
IDC Server Revenue by Vendor 2008
IDC Estimates that for every $ spent on Servers
●
An additional $.39 is spent on storage
●An additional $.25 is spent on services
IDC HPC Application/Industry Forecast
Servers Storage Application Segment 2009 ($K) 2013 ($K) 2009 ($K) University Academic $1,800,235 $2,337,419 6.75% $571,344 16.27% Govt. Lab $1,425,431 $1,863,896 6.93% $433,087 12.33% Bio Sciences $1,217,297 $1,781,031 9.98% $652,271 18.57% CAE $952,761 $1,562,311 13.16% $455,087 12.96% Defense $871,585 $1,186,212 8.01% $414,288 11.80% EDA $613,729 $948,920 11.51% $173,687 4.94% DCC & Distribution $576,228 $835,046 9.72% $269,913 7.68% Geosciences & Geo Engineering $529,772 $807,039 11.10% $222,042 6.32% Weather $371,260 $545,329 10.09% $119,956 3.42% Economics /Financial $261,750 $421,115 12.62% $64,663 1.84% Chemical Engineering $223,468 $260,900 3.95% $88,262 2.51%
Other $182,756 $140,644 -6.34% $20,227 0.58%
Mechanical Design & Drafting $106,400 $98,205 -1.98% $27,568 0.78% Total Revenue $9,132,672 $12,788,067 4.10% $3,512,395 100.00%
CAGR
