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Tuesday, 13 December 2016

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"We invite submissions introducing a wide range of topics, levels and considerations in HPC architectures, applications and usage – from fundamentals to the latest advances and hot topic areas. Submissions can be proposed as papers or presentation only (without papers). Each submission should indicate any unique criteria and requirements along with scheduling and format preferences in your proposal. Sessions can be defined as technical sessions, workshop(s) and/or as part of a ‘mini’ series of quick take tutorials."

“Over two days we’ll delve into a wide range of interests and best practices – in applications, tools and techniques and share new insights on the trends, technologies and collaborative partnerships that foster this robust ecosystem. Designed to be highly interactive, the open forum will feature industry notables in keynotes, technical sessions, workshops and tutorials. These highly regarded subject matter experts (SME’s) will share their works and wisdom covering everything from established HPC disciplines to emerging usage models from old-school architectures and breakthrough applications to pioneering research and provocative results. Plus a healthy smattering of conversation and controversy on endeavors in Exascale, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and much much more!”

High Performance Computing Market - Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014 - 2022

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High Performance Computing is a practice to aggregate computing power that delivers high performance capabilities in handling large number problems in science, business or engineering fields.HPC systems involve all types of servers and micro servers that are being used for highly computational or data intensive tasks. Currently, as HPC has been firmly linked to the economic competitiveness and scientific advances it is becoming important to nations. The worldwide study showcases, 97% of the companies have adopted supercomputing platforms and says that they won’t survive without it.

Faster computing capabilities of micro servers or HPC systems, improved performance efficiency and smarter deployment & management with high quality of service are some key factors driving the growth of HPC market. The major challenges for these HPC systems are power, cooling system management and storage & data management. The importance of storage & data management would continue to grow in future. In additions to this, software hurdles continues to grow, which are restraining the growth of HPC market. HPC technology is being rapidly adopted by the academic institutions and various industries to build reliable and robust products that would enable to maintain a competitive edge in the business. Various vendors are also targeting to provide high performance converged technology solutions. As this trend is gaining significant relevance, the market is growing steadily and it would continue its growth in future.

High Performance Computing market analysis by Components

HPC involves various components and some of them could be listed as Hardware and architecture, software and system management and professional services. Hardware components are the most essential parts in any HPC system. The efficiency of the system is totally dependent on the hardware entities in HPC. Hardware and architecture segment of HPC includes memory capacity (storage), energy management, servers and network devices. Servers consist of super computer, divisional, departmental &workgroup. Supercomputers and departmental units are the fastest elements to be sold in hardware and architecture section. Another essential component of HPC is software and management system. It comprises of middleware, programming tools, performance optimization tools, cluster management and fabric management. Finally, professional services provided are design & consulting, integration & deployment and Training & outsourcing.

High Performance Computing market analysis by Deployment

The different types of deployment methods of HPC are Cloud based and on-premise based methods. Cloud deployment is most popular in the industry, as cloud-computing technologies are popularly adopted by the players in different industries. The research shows that cloud technology market is expected to grow due to its high adoption rate, while the usage on-premise deployment method would decline slowly.

High Performance Computing market analysis by Application

The major application sections of HPC are High Performance technical computing and High performance business computing. Technical computing of the HPC includes various sectors such as Government, Chemicals, Bio-sciences, Academic institutions, Consumer products, Energy, Electronics and Others. High performance data analysis is being used in government sector for national security & crime fighting. In addition to this, HPCs are used in fraud detection and customer acquisition/retention across other sectors. High Performance Business Computing includes media entertainment, online gaming, retail, financial service, ultra scale internet, transportation and others.

High Performance Computing market analysis by Geography

The high performance computing market is being analyzed in different geographic regions such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and LAMEA. North America is the largest market for HPC technology due to the technological advancements and early adoption of technology in the region followed by Europe.

Competitive Landscape

The key market players are adopting product launch as their principle strategy to provide high performance solutions in different industries. Cisco is providing high performance computing solution for financial services that overcome low latency requirements, high message rate and throughput requirements, predictability to avoid jitter & spikes and building large computing grids in cost effective manner.

Some major players in HPC market are IBM, Intel, Fujistu, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft, HP, Dell, Hitachi Data System and Cisco.

HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS

Study of the market showcases the current market trends, market structures, driving factors, limitations and opportunities of the global HPC market. Porter’s Five Force Model helps in analyzing the market forces, barriers, strengths, etc., of the global market. Bargaining power of the buyer is low as the product is highly differentiated and threat of backward integration is low. The suppliers in this market are more concentrated than buyers, due to which the bargaining power of suppliers is high. Threat of substitutes in the global market is high as the switching costs are minimal. As HPC is a novel concept, threat of new entrants in the industry is high, while, the moderate number of market players leads to moderate intersegment rivalry in the market. Value chain analysis helps in analyzing the role of key stakeholders in the supply chain of the market and would provide new entrants with knowledge about the value chain of the existing market.

KEY BENEFITS

Porters five force’s model helps in analyzing the potential of buyers & suppliers, and the competitive sketch of the market, which would guide the market players to develop strategies accordingly
Assessments are made according to the current business scenario and the future market structure & trends are forecast for the period 2013-2020 by considering 2013 as base year
The analysis gives a wider view of the global market including its market trends, market structure, limiting factors and opportunities
The advantages of the market are analyzed to help the stakeholders identify the opportunistic areas in a comprehensive manner
The value chain analysis provides a systematic study on the key intermediaries involved, which would in turn help the stakeholders in the market to make appropriate strategies

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Datacenter Efficiencies Through Innovative Cooling

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Datacenters that are designed for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications are more difficult to design and construct than those that are designed for more basic enterprise applications. Organizations that are creating these datacenters need to be aware of, and design for systems that are expected to run at their maximum or near maximum performance for the lifecycle of the servers. While enterprise datacenters can be designed for less server density and less heat generated per server due to the type of workloads, HPC centers must be designed for higher usage per server. For example, simulations in many domains may run at peak performance (depending on the algorithms) for weeks at a time, while enterprise applications may only need peak performance for short bursts, such as payroll computations.

High Performance Computing Datacenter Efficiencies

Two main buckets of expenses are usually associated with the planning and implementation of a new datacenter, or the upgrade of an existing datacenter to accommodate the latest generation and performance of new server technology. The first and more generally understood one is the Capital Expense, or CAPEX for short. CAPEX is the amount that the organization will pay to purchase a new asset, especially a new physical asset. When creating or upgrading a new datacenter, the CAPEX is the amount paid for the computer servers, racks, storage systems, networking equipment, etc., which will usually be paid once, in the current fiscal year. Many organizations focus on this value in determining the cost of acquiring new systems. However, the recurring cost or Operational Expense (OPEX), over the life of the computer systems will traditionally be higher. Leading data center operators both understand this and know that reducing OPEX can provide competitive advantage and release budget dollars for investment in more computing capacity.

Reducing OPEX

OPEX is the sum of all of the expenses that an organization will have to pay to keep the servers running. This includes, but is not limited to such items as electricity, cooling (which includes the electricity), construction financing (if new construction was required), and maintenance.

One of the main costs in operating a data center is the cooling of the servers. When servers that are being used for HPC applications are running at full utilization, the CPUs produce more heat, than when waiting for work to be done. While the performance per watt of CPUs has increased dramatically over the past few decades, HPC installations are built to deliver the maximum performance of the system to the end user. Today’s modern two socket high end HPC servers can approach a 1,000 watt requirement. The electricity required for this type of server (while needed for the server in order to run and perform as expected) also includes a significant requirement for the power that is needed in order to cool the servers. CPUs have an envelope of operating temperatures that must be met, or the CPU will likely fail, often with a cascading impact on cluster throughput and reliability.

Datacenter design has focused in recent years on how to place racks and racks of servers in order to isolate and remove the heat that is produced by the servers, mainly the CPUs. Most servers today have been designed to have high speed and redundant fans in the back of the server, so that cool air can be pulled over the CPUS and heat sinks in order to cool them. This results in designing the data center to have hot aisles and cold aisles. For example, two rows of racks of systems may sit back to back. The cooler air from the front of the system is drawn over the hot chips into the hot aisle, and then powerful exhaust fans pull this hot air away from the hot aisles, and cooler air is returned to the cold aisle. Significant expense is required to contain the hot air in the hot aisle and to remove and cool the hot air.

An alternative is to provide cooling of the CPUs much closer to the CPU itself. If a significant reduction in the hot air that is produced is achievable, then less Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) is needed, reducing OPEX expenses. In addition, higher densities of the servers can be achieved, as less hot air is produced by each server into a given space (the hot aisle). The monetary effect of reducing power consumption is directly related to the overall OPEX. For example, reducing the power consumption by 50 %, can lead to a reduction of 20 + % in total data center power savings.

Asetek In-RackCDU D2C

Asetek specializes in liquid cooling systems for data centers, servers, workstations, gaming and high performance PCs. For HPC installations, Asetek RackCDU D2C™ (Direct-to-Chip) applies liquid cooling technology directly on the chip itself. Because liquid is 4,000 times better at storing and transferring heat than air, Asetek’s solutions provide immediate and measurable benefits to large and small data centers alike. The Asetek solution consists of a plate that is attached to the top of the processor and provides cold liquid to the chip itself. The hot liquid is then pumped away from the CPU where the liquid can then be chilled. This reduces almost all of the heat from the airflow of the server, reducing the CRAC requirements, which reduces the OPEX accordingly.

While the exact OPEX savings will vary depending on CPU loads, electricity costs, number of servers, and server density per rack, using Asetek cooling products can significantly reduce the OPEX costs for small and large data centers. Asetek has designed a simple calculator to assist in computing the cost savings. It is well worth investigating innovative chip and server cooling solutions in order to keep an HPC datacenter running and producing results faster than previous generations of systems.

Nor-Tech Introduces Portable HPC Clusters for the Oil & Gas Industry

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Oct. 11 — Nor-Tech (Northern Computer Technologies), the leading provider of HPC clusters and high performance workstations, just introduced the first portable HPC cluster for the oil and gas industry with a price point starting at $20,000.

Nor-Tech designed the cluster with the understanding that the oil and gas industry is looking for providers:

With deep FEA/CFD/CAE experience and an engineering staff that understands the concepts and challenges.
With knowledge of all software integration options and assurance of agnostic recommendations.
That have the willingness to listen to clients, the ability to understand their needs, and the ability to incorporate those needs into the design.
That can deliver a superior cost/performance ratio and a competitive total cost of ownership.
That have an excellent reputation within the HPC community, and
That offer a strong product lineup backed by quality service and prompt support.

Nor-Tech President and CEO David Bollig said, “Many businesses in the oil and gas industry in particular have been putting off upgrading from a workstation to a cluster even though they know it will dramatically reduce modeling time. Part of the reason is the price and the other part is the anticipated disruption. We’ve been working with clients in just this situation for many years and have perfected the transition process. Our goal is to have clients up and running with their new cluster within a couple hours of delivery. We also back that up with no wait time support.”

Nor-Tech’s cluster was developed with dual goals of mitigating risk and maximizing the speed of obtaining accurate, actionable results at a price within reach of even the smallest oil and gas companies. The cluster aggregates, processes, and interprets a terabyte or more of data originating in simulations, surveys, historical geological sources, etc.

Often, as organizations need more processing power than a single workstation can provide, they will add another workstation. It seems like a cost-saving strategy at first, but as they continue to add workstations, they soon exceed the price of a single cluster—which would also have about 3x the processing power.

“We always recommend the most cost-effective solution for the long term,” Bollig said. “So we do offer high end workstations that may make more sense for start-ups still struggling with desktops.”

About Nor-Tech

2016 HPCwire award finalist, Nor-Tech is renowned throughout the scientific, academic, and business communities for easy to deploy turnkey clusters and expert, no wait time support. All of Nor-Tech’s technology is made by Nor-Tech in Minnesota and supported by Nor-Tech around the world. In addition to HPC clusters, Nor-Tech’s custom technology includes workstations, desktops, and servers for a range of applications including CAE, CFD, and FEA. Nor-Tech engineers average 20+ years of experience and are responsible for significant high performance computing innovations. The company has been in business since 1998 and is headquartered in Burnsville, Minn. just outside of Minneapolis. To contact Nor-Tech call 952-808-1000/toll free: 877-808-1010 or visit http://www.nor-tech.com. For more information on Nor-Tech’s clusters visit: http://www.nor-tech.com/solutions/hpc.

CloudLightning Report Looks at Barriers to HPC in the Cloud

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The CloudLightning Project in Europe has published preliminary results from a survey on Barriers to Using HPC in the Cloud.

"Cloud computing is transforming the utilization and efficiency of IT infrastructures across all sectors. Historically, cloud computing has not been used for high performance computing (HPC) to the same degree as other use cases for a number of reasons. This executive briefing is a preliminary report of a larger study on demand-side barriers and drivers of cloud computing adoption for HPC. A more comprehensive report and analysis will be published later in 2016. From June to August 2016, the CloudLightning project surveyed over 170 HPC discrete end users worldwide in the academic, commercial and government sectors on their HPC use, perceived drivers and barriers to using cloud computing, and uses of cloud computing for HPC."

As shown in Figure 2, trust in cloud computing would appear to be a significant barrier to adopting cloud computing for HPC workloads. Data management concerns dominate the responses. This is not surprising given the large number of bio-science and university and academic respondents within the sample. The main technical barriers relate to communication speeds. This reflects a perceived lack of cloud infrastructure capable of meeting the communications and I/O requirements of high-end technical computing. Government policy is again ranked low it would seem it is neither a driver nor a barrier. Unsurprisingly availability and capital expenditure are not barriers reflecting their positive impact on adoption.

According to the report, there is unlikely to be a full shift of high performance computing workloads to the cloud in the short term however there is evidence of demand to meet the capacity limitations of internal infrastructures including use cases for testing the viability of the cloud or specific software for various use cases. This is consistent with previous research.

"Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program for Research and Innovation, CloudLightning brings together eight project partners from five countries across Europe. The project proposes to create a new way of provisioning heterogeneous cloud resources to deliver services, specified by the user, using a bespoke service description language. Our goal is to address energy inefficiencies particularly in the use of resources and consequently to deliver savings to the cloud provider and the cloud consumer in terms of reduced power consumption and improved service delivery, with hyperscale systems particularly in mind."

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TYAN HPC Platforms Add Support for NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4 GPUs

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Sept. 21 — TYAN, an industry-leading server platform design manufacturer and subsidiary of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, announces support and availability of the NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4 GPU accelerators with the new NVIDIA Pascal architecture. Incorporating NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art technologies allows TYAN to offer the exceptional performance and data-intensive applications features to HPC users.

“Real-time, intelligent applications are transforming our world, thus our customers need an efficient compute platform to deliver responsive and cost-effective AI,” said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation’s TYAN Business Unit. “TYAN is pleased to work with NVIDIA to market FT77C-B7079 and TA80-B7071 servers with P100, P40 and P4 to market. The TYAN NVIDIA-based server platforms allow hyper-scale customers to deploy accurate, responsive AI solutions, and to reduce inference latency up to 45x. The high throughput and best in class efficiency of Pascal GPUs make it possible to process exploding volumes of data to offer cost effective, accurate AI applications.”

“The NVIDIA Pascal architecture is the computing engine for modern data centers. Powered by Pascal, Tesla GPUs offer massive leaps in performance and efficiency required by the ever increasing demand of AI applications,” said Roy Kim, Tesla Product Lead at NVIDIA. “We’re partnering with TYAN to deliver the accelerated solutions customers need to deploy HPC applications and AI services.”

TYAN HPC platforms with support for NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40, P4

4U/8 GPGPU FT77C-B7079 – Support up to 2x Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 (Broadwell-EP) processors, 24x DDR4 DIMM slots, 1x PCI-E x8 mezzanine slot for high-speed I/O option, 10x 3.5″/2.5″ hot-swap SATA 6Gb/s HDDs/SSDs, dual-port 10GbE/GbE LOM, and (2+1) 3,200W redundant power supplies with 80-Plus Platinum rated.

2U/4 GPGPU TA80-B7071 – Support up to 2x Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 (Broadwell-EP) processors, 16x DDR4 DIMM slots, 1x PCI-E x8 slot for high-speed I/O option, 8x 2.5″ hot-swap SAS or SATA 6Gb/s plus 2x 2.5″ internal SATA 6Gb/s HDDs/SSDs, dual-port 10GbE/GbE LOM, and (1+1) 1,600W redundant power supplies with 80-Plus Platinum rated.

About TYAN

TYAN, a leading server brand of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation under the MiTAC Holdings Corporation (TSE:3706), designs, manufactures and markets advanced x86 and x86-64 server/workstation board and system products. The products are sold to OEMs, VARs, System Integrators and Resellers worldwide for a wide range of applications. TYAN enable customers to be technology leaders by providing scalable, highly-integrated and reliable products such as appliances for cloud service providers (CSP) and high-performance computing and server/workstation used in CAD, DCC, E&P and HPC markets. For more information, visit MiTAC Holdings Corporation’s website at http://www.mic-holdings.com or TYAN’s website at http://www.tyan.com