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Zane Adam, Director of Windows Server Division Annemarie Duffy, Infrastructure Server Team Manager Date: June 9 th 2006

Contents HPC Market View Microsoft Approach Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Target Verticals Today’s News

Market Perspective

Microsoft Approach to HPC Make it Simple Deployment Management Development Make the right Partnerships Commercial Academic Make it Mainstream Windows Server Infrastructure Windows XP Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft Excel

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Dat a Input Job Management DB/FS High speed, low latency interconnect User Job Admin Desktop App Cmd line Job Mgmt Resource Mgmt Cluster Mgmt Head Node Node Manager User AppJob Execution Active Directory MPI Admin Console Cmd line User Console Administration Prescriptive, simplified cluster setup and administration (MMC, user console) Scripted, image-based compute node management (RIS, SDM, Job Scheduler) Active Directory based security Scalable, extensible job scheduling and resource management Development MPICH2 from Argonne National Lab with performance and security enhancements Cluster scheduler programmable via DCOM and.NET Visual Studio 2005 – OpenMP, Parallel Debugger

Target Verticals

Institutes of HPC Cornell Theory Center Ithaca, NY USA University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN USA University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA USA University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT USA TACC – University of Texas Austin, TX USA Southampton University Southampton, UK HLRS – University of Stuttgart (Germany) Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, PRC Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo, Japan Nizhni Novgorod University Nizhni Novgorod, Russia NCSA– University of Illinois USA

Announcing… Release to Manufacturing: Microsoft’s first HPC solution, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 General availability: Early August Pricing/Licensing: Availability in the volume license channel with an estimated price of $469 per node OEM (embedded, system builder, OEM); volume licensing, MSDN/TechNet for download, evaluation version

Partners

Reduced design cost through improved engineer productivity Reduced time to market Increased product performance Lower computing acquisition and maintenance costs Use Windows ® Compute Cluster Server 2003, workflow orchestra- tion, and developer tools to deliver inter- operable, secure design platform based on CFD framework Complex, lengthy design cycle with difficult collaboration and little knowledge reuse High costs due to expensive computing infrastructure Advanced IT skills required of engineers, slowing design Aerospace firm speeds design, improves performance, lowers costs with clustered computing “ Simplifying our fluid dynamics engineering platform will increase our ability to bring solutions to market and reduce risk and cost to both BAE Systems and its customers.” Jamil Appa, Group Leader, Technology and Engineering Services, BAE Systems

More research groups are now using HPC applications Researchers can now run larger data models and free up desktop for other tasks Research-driven university deploys Compute Cluster Server, enabling broader access of HPC to new users and applications “Windows Compute Cluster Server offers Queen’s University users the ability to solve complex computational problems in a user-friendly environment.” Professor Ken Bell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University, Belfast University with a dynamic world-class research and education portfolio wanted to offer HPC to new users and applications Wanted to expand the use of HPC to user groups lacking in-depth computing skills Deployed Microsoft ® Windows ® Compute Cluster Server 2003 to enable researchers to solve complex computational problems by running financial modelling, imaging, and engineering applications

National Center for Atmospheric Research - Weather Research Forecasting Model Next generation numerical weather prediction system In production use at US National Weather Service and Air Force Weather Agency and >3,000 users Originally developed for Unix systems. 360,000 lines of code in C++, Fortran, OpenMP and MPI 750 lines required modification to produce native Win64 binary that ran on Windows CCS/MPI “Windows emergence as a viable HPC operating system broadens the range of computational resources for atmospheric research and weather forecasting and presents a significant opportunity to the WRF user community.” John Michalakes WRF Principal Developer

High Performance Computing Cutting edge problems in science, engineering and business always require capabilities beyond those of standalone computers Market pressures demand accelerated innovation cycle, overall cost reduction and thorough outcome modeling Aircraft design utilizing composite materials Vehicle fuel efficiency and safety improvements Simulations of enzyme catalysis, protein folding Targeted material and drug design Simulation of nanoscale electronic devices Financial portfolio risk modeling Digital content creation and enhancement Supply chain modeling and optimization Long term climate projections Volume economics of industry standard hardware and commercial software applications are rapidly bringing HPC capabilities to broader number of users