1. Microsoft Technical Computing Modeling the world with greater fidelity Wolfgang Dreyer, TC - Microsoft Germany

2. New Bytes of Information in 2010 Source: IDC, as reported in The Economist, Feb 25, 2010 2 1.2 x 10 21 (1’200’000’000’000’000’000’000 bytes)

3. 3 3 Sources: The Economist, Feb ‘10; IDC ‘“Microsoft's ambitions have always been big. A quarter of a century ago, the company's primary mission was to put a consumer-friendly computer on every desktop. At least in the industrialized world, they can consider that mission accomplished. Now they want to do nothing less than model the world.” - Michael Feldman, HPCWire, 5/20/2010 By 2016 the New Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile will acquire 140 terabytes in 5 days - more than Sloan acquired in 10 years In 2000 the Sloan Digital Sky Survey collected more data in its 1 st week than was collected in the entire history of Astronomy The Large Hadron Collider at CERN generates 40 terabytes of data every second

4. 4 Sources: The Economist, Feb ‘10; DBMS2; Microsoft Corp Cisco predicts that by 2013 annual internet traffic flowing will reach 667 exabytes The Twitter community generates over 1 terabyte of tweets every day Microsoft Update and Windows Update push out a petabyte of updates monthly

5. 2010 1970 1.E-01 198019902000 1.E+07 1.E+06 1.E+05 1.E+04 1.E+03 1.E+02 1.E+01 1.E+00 Cores Frequency (MHz) Source: Jack Dongarra, Kunle Olukotun, Lance Hammond, Herb Sutter, Burton Smith, Chris Batten, Krste Asanovic, and Kathy Yelick Moore’s Law... Transistors (in thousands) “The era of single processor systems is over; the multi- and many-core systems world is here. If you're not ready for this change, there's an IT train wreck in your future. - HPC Wire …a hardware issue just became a software problem

6. 6 Client single node shared memory

7. Parallel Development on Windows

8. 8 Cluster multiple nodes distributed memory

9. ANNOUNCING! GENERAL AVAILABLITY

10. World Class Performance. Scale to thousands of nodes. Easy to use with existing skills.

12. HPC Services for Excel 2010 Run more sophisticated models. Faster response to market trends. Reduce time to results. *

13. Desktop Compute Clouds: Harnessing Idle Cores Expand the capacity of existing HPC clusters. Utilize idle compute cycles as part of your overall HPC infrastructure.

14. Microsoft provides easy to use technology with a reduced total cost of ownership A wide range of organizations such as financial services, oil and gas, manufacturing and geological services a companies are prepared to maximize the use of the familiar Windows-based platform Microsoft is committed to investing in the future of HPC Microsoft is committed to investing in the future of HPC and growing the market with its partners Why Microsoft? Why Now? STRONG Commitment to HPC

15. Reality!

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