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Platform Computing, an IBM Company 1 Copyright Copyright2012 Platform © 2010 Computing, Platform Computingan IBM Company Corporation. 2012. All Rights Reserved. Who is Platform Computing, an IBM Company • Market leader in middleware and infrastructure management # 1 software for mission-critical technical computing and analytics Commercial distributed computing environments HPC • 2000+ global customers including 23 of 30 largest enterprises • Simultaneously increases infrastructure utilization, application 60% of top service levels and throughput, and reduces costs using Financial heterogeneous, shared infrastructure Services • Applications span technical computing, high performance computing (HPC) (design, research, engineering) and analytics (financial analytics, BI/analysis, data processing) Over 5 MM CPUs under • Offerings scale from single-sites to large global grids management • 500+ professionals spread across 13 global offices • Partnerships with Dell, HP, Cray, SAS, Intel, Microsoft, Fujitsu & 100+ select partners 2 2 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. What Does Platform Computing Do? We optimise shared infrastructure for distributed HPC, Technical Computing and Analytics computing environments Creates Shared • For Compute & Data intensive apps • Across heterogeneous resources Resource • Physical, virtual, cloud Pools • Easy user access Delivers • Multiple user groups, sites • Multiple applications and workloads Shared • Governance Services • Administration/ Reporting / Analytics • Policy & resource-aware scheduling Workload • Service level agreements Management • Automation / workflow • High utilization of resources Transforms Static • Harvest non-dedicated • Burst internal / external Infrastructure to • Multi-hypervisor Dynamic • Multi-boot 3 3 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Key Industries & Customer Benefits • Financial Services: Better decisions in real time on trades with in-house applications • Semiconductor and Electronics (EDA applications): Faster time-to-market • Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Consumer Products (CAD, CAE, MDA): Better product design • Research, Academia & Life Sciences (public domain & in- house applications): Petascale performance for grand challenge HPC problems • Oil & Gas (seismic and reservoir simulation applications): Faster time to results for finding Reserves and for decisions on how to exploit producing reservoirs 4 4 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Workstation, Cluster, Grid and HPC Cloud Evolution HPC Cloud • HPC applications Grid • Enhanced self-service • Multiple applications or • Dynamic HPC infrastructure: Group sharing resources reconfigure, add, flex • Dynamic workload using static resources Challenge Scope of sharing HPC Cluster • Commodity hardware • Policy-based scheduling • Compute / data intensive apps • Single application/ user group Solution Benefits 1992 2002 2012 5 5 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform and “HPC Cloud” • “HPC Cloud” definition varies widely between end users • Platform enables “HPC Cloud” capabilities across the families • Starting point is core workload & resource mgmt Capability Customer Benefits Enhanced Shared • Enhanced self-service portal Services • Multi-tenant HPC sharing • Chargeback and reporting Flexing Within an • Dynamic re-provisioning based upon workload HPC Environment • Cluster growing/ shrinking across mixed workload management systems and clusters • On-demand cluster creation by end users Extending the Size • Bursting to add resources of an HPC • Harvesting servers / workstations Environment • Consolidating clusters into shared grids 6 6 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform Computing Products Platform LSF Platform Symphony Platform HPC 7 Copyright Copyright2012 Platform © 2010 Computing, Platform Computingan IBM Company Corporation. 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform Computing Offerings Scalable, comprehensive cluster and grid HPC Workload and Platform LSF workload and resource management suite Resource Family Management for heterogeneous environments Simplified, integrated, purpose-built HPC management software supplied as a Platform HPC complete HPC software and hardware solution from your favourite HPC Partner. Foundation for HPC Cloud Analytics High-throughput, low-latency compute and Infrastructure data intensive analytics applications Platform • Highest performance & utilization Symphony Family • Complex Computations (i.e., risk) • Big Data Analytics via MapReduce • Extract Transform Load (ETL) 8 8 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform Computing Products Platform LSF 9 Copyright Copyright2012 Platform © 2010 Computing, Platform Computingan IBM Company Corporation. 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform LSF Product Family Overview The most powerful workload manager for demanding, distributed and mission-critical high performance computing environments. Key Capabilities o Delivers a virtualized pool of shared IT resources o Policy-driven and infrastructure-aware workload scheduling o Highly scalable and available architecture for managing up to petaFLOP-scale resources o Easy-to-use job management portal with simplified application integration o Comprehensive reporting & analytics Benefits o Increases job throughput for faster time to results o Reduces IT costs with dramatic gains in utilization o Simplified management with a single platform for multiple applications/users and a heterogeneous infrastructure o Improved visibility of resource usage for easier management and capacity planning 10 10 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform LSF Family Add-Ons 11 11 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform Computing Products Platform Symphony 12 Copyright Copyright2012 Platform © 2010 Computing, Platform Computingan IBM Company Corporation. 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform Symphony Product Family Overview The most powerful management software for running low- latency compute and data intensive applications on a scalable, shared, heterogeneous grid Low Latency / Hi-throughput • Sub-millisecond Key Capabilities • 17,000 tasks per second o Accelerates service-oriented apps on a distributed grid Large Scale o Extreme app scalability and throughput with very low latency • 10,000 cores per o Compute and data parallel applications on a single platform application o Supports applications written in MapReduce logic and is 100% • 40,000 cores per grid Hadoop compatible Heterogeneous & Open o Sophisticated, hierarchical resource sharing • Linux, Windows, AIX o Open and flexible: choice of OS, frameworks and languages • C/C++, C#, Java, Excel, Python, R Benefits o Higher quality analysis with faster results o Reduces IT costs - dramatic gains in infrastructure utilization o On-board new applications faster, reduce application maintenance costs o Single management platform for multiple application types 13 13 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform MapReduce for Hadoop What does Platform MapReduce provide? • Leverage of existing Storage Environment • High resource utilisation and predictability • Enterprise-class manageability and security • High availability • Scalability • Open architecture – access data where it currently resides • Connectors for various Databases and File Systems • Shared Services / Multi-application workload capable • Guaranteed SLA capabilities for key applications 14 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform MapReduce Application (MR Application (MR Java, Hive, Pig, Java, Hive, Pig, Oozie) Oozie) Running Application Adapter Hadoop Job Platform Tracker + Grid MapReduce Grid Hadoop File System Current File Systems HDFS SQL, Oracle HDFS Only Data Warehouse Environments GPFS 15 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform Computing Products Platform HPC 16 Copyright Copyright2012 Platform © 2010 Computing, Platform Computingan IBM Company Corporation. 2012. All Rights Reserved. Platform HPC Overview Web-Based Operational Dashboards: Customers can monitor workload & system Easy-to-use and complete HPC cluster and workload load for troubleshooting and capacity planning management software sold with all major server brands Key Capabilities o Highly configurable, easy-to-use cluster management o User-friendly, topology-aware workload scheduling o Web-based interface for access anywhere and simplified application integration o Robust workload and system monitoring and reporting o Dynamic operating system multi-boot o GPU scheduling and reporting o Robust commercial MPI library, including Platform MPI Application Templates: Users can run Benefits applications without writing wrapper scripts o Faster time to full system readiness o Reduces time to full user productivity o Increases job throughput for faster time to results o Reduces IT costs with dramatic gains in infrastructure utilization o More science, less computer science 17 17 Copyright 2012 Platform Computing, an IBM Company 2012. All Rights Reserved. Capacity Approach Utilization Invisible cost of delay to productive use & utilization Extended learning period for users Extended time to fully operational system It takes a long time to “Sweat the Assets” Open source management