1. Welcome To The 36 th HPC User Forum Meeting April 2010

2. Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: Next US Meeting:  September 13 to 15, 2010, Seattle Washington International Meetings:  HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 7/8, 2010  SARA Computing & Networking Services, Amsterdam, October 12/13, 2010  Beijing, China, October 30th

3. Thank You To Our Meal Sponsors! Tuesday:  Breakfast – Microsoft  Break -- Appro International  Lunch -- Platform  Break – Mellanox  Dinner – Altair and IBM Wednesday:  Breakfast -- Nvidia  Break -- Dell  Lunch -- HP  Break – Bright Computing  Dinner -- Intel

4. Breakfast Thanks to Microsoft !

5. Introduction: Logistics Ask Mary if you need a receipt Meals and events  Joint meeting with DICE/Avetec  Tuesday and Wednesday dinner plans We have a very tight agenda (as usual)  Please help us keep on time! Review handouts  Note: We will post most of the presentations on the web site  Please complete the evaluation form

6. HPC User Forum Mission To Improve The Health Of The High-performance Computing Industry Through Open Discussions, Information- sharing And Initiatives Involving HPC Users In Industry, Government And Academia Along With HPC Vendors And Other Interested Parties

7. HPC User Forum Goals Assist HPC users in solving their ongoing computing, technical and business problems Provide a forum for exchanging information, identifying areas of common interest, and developing unified positions on requirements  By working with users in other sectors and vendors  To help direct and push vendors to build better products  Which should also help vendors become more successful Provide members with a continual supply of information on:  Uses of high end computers, new technologies, high end best practices, market dynamics, computer systems and tools, benchmark results, vendor activities and strategies Provide members with a channel to present their achievements and requirements to interested parties

8. HPC Server Market Size By Competitive Segments (2009 Data) Departmental ($250K - $100K) $2.5B Divisional ($250K - $500K) $1.1B Supercomputers (Over $500K) $3.4B Workgroup (under $100K) $1.7B HPC Servers $8.6B

9. Top Trends in HPC The global economy is still impacting HPC  HPC declined 11.6% for 2009 overall  2008 was down 3% –A major change from the 19% yearly growth over prior years –But the high end grew 25% in 2009  We are forecasting growth starting in 2010 Major challenges for datacenters:  Power, cooling, real estate, system management  Storage and data management continue to grow in importance Software hurdles will rise to the top for most users  Driven heavily by multi-core processors and hybrid systems  Application scaling and performance is a problem SSDs will gain momentum and could redefine storage GPGPUs are starting to gain ground

10. 1.The HPC Market Will Resume Growth in Mid-2010 2.The Race For Global Leadership Will Turbo-Charge the Supercomputers Segment 3.In 2010 Evolutionary Change Will Trump Revolutionary Change 4.Commoditization Will Increasingly Level the Playing Field For HPC Competition 5.The Highly Parallel Programming Challenge Will Increase 6.X86 Processors Will Dominate, But GPGPUs Will Gain Traction As x86 Hits the Wall 7.Infiniband Will Continue To Gain HPC Market Share 8.HPC Storage Will Outpace the HPC Server Market Recovery 9.Power and Cooling Efficiency Will Become More Important, But Is Not Far Along Today 10.Cloud Computing May Be Coming To A Neighborhood Near You IDC Top 10 HPC Predictions for 2010

11. HPC Vendor Revenue Shares, 2009

12. HPC Market Shares By Segment

13. Why HPC Is Projected To Grow 1.It has become a competitive weapon  For companies, universities and governments  Global competitiveness is driving R&D and better product designs  Even small companies can use HPC to gain market share 2. Governments view HPC leadership as critical  For national pride, but more importantly for economic prosperity  US, EU, China, Japan and even Russia  It use to be 1 large supercomputer – now its multiple ones  $30M was enough ten years ago, now its over $100M 3.There are very critical HPC issues that need to be solved  Global warming, alternative energy, safe NE, financial disaster modeling, healthcare, homeland security, …  And 3D movies and large scale games are fun 4.At the same time, “live” science and “live” engineering costs have escalated  And time-to-solution is months faster with simulations

14. The HPC Market Will Resume Growth In Mid- 2010  Our latest forecast has HPC server revenue growing 6% to 7% reaching $11 billion by 2013

15. Industry/Application Segments 2010 to 2014 Growth Sectors

16. Growth In The Broader HPC Market

17. Conclusions  2010 will be a year of continuing evolutionary rather than revolutionary change in the worldwide HPC market  Incremental advances will help, but not resolve persistent issues, such as highly parallel programming challenges, power and cooling costs, and software licensing costs  IDC predicts the HPC market will resume growth in mid-2010 and grow 5% to 7% in 2010  And then will gradually rebuild to $10.5 billion in 2013  The recovery will benefit HPC segments unevenly:  With hard-hit verticals such as automotive and financial services recovering more slowly than oil and gas, or government and academia  The Supercomputer segment growth will remain turbo-charged by government spending aimed at HPC leadership and “petaflop club” membership

18. Essential Guidance  Existing major challenges will remain inadequately addressed:  Weak application performance improvements  Highly parallel programming  System imbalance (the "memory wall")  Power and space usage  Finding and developing HPC experts  Software licensing costs  Ease-of-use – dealing with the growing system complexity

19. Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com Questions?

20. Agenda: Day One, Tuesday Morning 8:15amWelcome and HPC Market Update, Steve Finn, Sharan Kalwani and Earl Joseph Morning Session Chair: Steve Finn 8:30amManufacturing and HPC at Boeing, Doug Ball 8:55amHPC at General Motors, Simon Xu 9:20amImproving Fuel Mileage on Large Tractors, BMI Corporation, John Anastos 9:45amBreak Sponsored by Appro 10:00amHPC in automotive manufacturing at Ford Motor Company, Nand Kochhar 10:25amVendor Technology Update: Nvidia: Using GPGPUs to Accelerate Applications 10:40amPanel on Scaling ISV Applications Moderators: Sharan Kalwani and Alex Akkerman 12:00pmNetworking Lunch Sponsored by Platform

21. Lunch Break Thanks to Platform Please Return Promptly at 1:00pm

22. Thank You Platform For Lunch

23. Agenda: Day One, Tuesday Afternoon 1:00pmAfternoon Session Chair: Chris Catherasoo 1:00pm Algorithms and Scaling Aerospace Codes, Metacomp Technologies, Sukumar Chakravarthy 1:25pmA Top Level Overview of Parallelism from Microsoft's Point of View, David rich 1:40pmDOD HPCMP Program Update, Cray Henry 2:05pmINCITE Program Update, Julia White, INCITE Manager 2:30pmBreak Sponsored by Mellanox and car demo 3:00pmPanel: Training & Developing HPC People Moderators: Paul Buerger and Jim Kasdorf 4:25pmHPC Use In A Tier 1 Manufacturing Supplier, L&L Products, Steve Reagan 4:50pmNSF and Bluewaters Directions, Irene Qualters 5:15pmNetworking Break and Time for 1-on-1 Meetings 7:00pm Special Dinner Event Sponsored by Altair and IBM

24. Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: Next US Meeting:  September 13 to 15, 2010, Seattle Washington International Meetings:  HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 7/8, 2010  SARA Computing & Networking Services, Amsterdam, October 12/13, 2010  Beijing, China, October 30th

25. Tuesday Dinner Vendor Updates: 10 Min. Only Altair Appro Bright Computing Cray DDN Dell IBM Mellanox Panasas Specta Logic SGI

26. Welcome To Day 2 Of The HPC User Forum Meeting

27. Thank You To Our Meal Sponsors! Tuesday:  Breakfast – Microsoft  Break -- Appro International  Lunch -- Platform  Break – Mellanox  Dinner – Altair and IBM Wednesday:  Breakfast -- Nvidia  Break -- Dell  Lunch -- HP  Break – Bright Computing  Dinner -- Intel

28. Dinner Thanks to Altair and IBM ! Breakfast Thanks to Nvidia !

29. Agenda: Day Two, Wednesday Morning 8:00amWelcome, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn Morning Session Chair: Paul Muzio 8:10amCFD Post-processing and HPC: Driving Down the Cost of Design and Analysis, Steve Legensky 8:35amClosing the Productivity Gap Using HPC, Council on Competitiveness, Cynthia McIntyre 9:00amHPC and Cloud Computing: DARPA Results for Manufacturing Pilots Using On-Demand Computing: Introduction by Robert Graybill Jet Engine Fuel Nozzle by Lorin Hochstein, USC ISI EMI by Jeff Crompton, AltaSim Technologies Leveraging Consumerization: The Strategic and Economic Advantages of Cloud Computing for NASA, Khawaja Shams New Cloud Computing Offerings from SGI, Christian Tanasescu The CERN Cloud Computing Project, Platform Computing, William Lu 10:45amBreak Sponsored by Dell 11:00amNew Software Approaches for Gaining Knowledge and Insight, Microsoft 11:15amNCSA Business/Industry Outreach Program and Blue Waters Update, Merle Giles 11:45am Vendor Technology Update: HP 12:00pmNetworking Lunch Sponsored by HP

30. Lunch Break Thanks to HP Please Return Promptly at 1:00pm

31. Thank You HP For Lunch

32. Agenda: Day Two, Wednesday Afternoon 1:00pmHPC in Manufacturing, National Association of Manufacturers, Emily DeRocco 1:25pmSoftware Applications Discovery Initiative (with a focus on small manufacturers), USC-ISI, Bob Graybill 1:50pmManufacturers Mini-Briefs on HPC in Manufacturing Examples Moderated by: Al Stutz and Roger Panton Procter & Gamble, Jim Escoe, BP, Keith Gray, Caterpillar, Keven Hofstetter, R-Systems, Brian Kucic, General Electric, Dave Topp 2:50pmHPC Vendor Technology Update: Intel 3:20pmInitiative to grow HPC use in Manufacturing, National Center for Manufacturing Services, Jon Riley 3:45pmBreak Sponsored by Bright Computing 4:00pmHPC Power and Cooling Update, AVETEC, Roger Panton 4:25pmHPC and Engine Manufacturing, Pratt & Whitney, Saadat Syed 4:50pmAerodynamic Analyses using NASA TetrUSS on HPC, Alaa Elmiligui 5:15pmWrap-Up, Steve Finn, Sharan Kalwani and Earl Joseph 5:15pmNetworking Break and Time for 1-on-1 Meetings 6:00pmSpecial Joint Dinner Event With DICE at the Ford Museum, Sponsored by Intel

33. Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: Next US Meeting:  September 13 to 15, 2010, Seattle Washington International Meetings:  HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 7/8, 2010  SARA Computing & Networking Services, Amsterdam, October 12/13, 2010  Beijing, China, October 30th

34. Dinner Logistics  Special Joint Dinner Event With DICE at the Ford Museum, Sponsored by Intel –Buses start to leave at 6:00pm, reception at 6:30pm, dinner at 7:00pm  Please complete the evaluation form  Please Join in the DICE Alliance Meeting –Tomorrow from 8:00am to 5:00pm

35. Thank You For Attending The 36 th HPC User Forum Meeting

36. Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com Questions?

37. Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com Questions?