1. Welcome To The 34 th HPC User Forum Meeting October 2009

2. Thank You To: HLRS/University of Stuttgart For Hosting The Meeting!

3. Thank You To Our Sponsors! Altair Engineering Bull IBM Microsoft

4. Introduction: Logistics We have a very tight agenda (as usual)  Please help us keep on time! Review Agenda Times:  Please take advantage of breaks and free time to network with attendees  Note: We will post most of the presentations on the web site

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 1Q 2009 HPC Market Update

8. Q109 HPC Market Result – Down 16.8% Departmental ($250K - $100K) $754M Divisional ($250K - $500K) $237M Supercomputers (Over $500K) $802M Workgroup (under $100K) $282M HPC Servers $2.1B Source IDC, 2009

9. Q109 Vendor Share in Revenue

10. Q109 Cluster Vendor Shares

11. HPC Compared To IDC Server Numbers

12. HPC Qview Tie To Server Tracker: 1Q 2009 Data All WW Servers As Reported In IDC Server Tracker $9.9B HPC Qview Compute Node Revenues ~$1.05B* HPC Special Revenue Recognition Services Includes those sold through custom engineering, R&D offsets, or paid for over multiple quarters HPC Special Revenue Recognition Services ~$474M HPC Computer System Revenues Beyond The Base Compute Nodes: Includes interconnects and switches, inbuilt storage, scratch disks, OS, middleware, warranties, installation fees, service nodes, special cooling features, etc. Revenue Beyond Base Nodes ~$576M * This number ties the two data sets on an apples-to-apples basis Tracker QST Data Focus: Compute Nodes HPC Qview Data Focus: The Complete System: “Everything needed to turn it on” 3 HPC 1 QST 2 HPC

13. 2010 IDC HPC Research Areas Quarterly HPC Forecast Updates  Until the world economy recovers New HPC End-user Based Reports:  Clusters, processors, accelerators, storage, interconnects, system software, and applications  The evolution of government HPC budgets  China and Russia HPC trends Power and Cooling Research Developing a Market Model For Middleware and Management Software Extreme Computing Data Center Assessment and Benchmarking Tracking Petascale and Exascale Initiatives

14. Agenda: Day One 12:45HPC User Forum Welcome/Introductions: Steve Finn (Chair, HPC User Forum) and Earl Joseph (IDC) 13:00HLRS Welcome/Introductions: Michael Resch, HLRS 13:15Michael Resch, HLRS, a European View of HPC 13:45Robert Singleterry, NASA HPC Directions, Issues and Concerns 14:15Tom Sterling, Trends and New Directions in HPC 14:45ISC Update 15:00Break 15:45Jim Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, National Science Foundation Directions 16:15Erich Schelkle, ASCS/Porsche, End User HPC Site Update 16:45Vijay K. Agarwala, Developing a Coherent Cyberinfrastructure from Local Campus to National Facilities 17:00Thomas Eickermann, Juelich Research Center, PRACE Program Update 17:30Networking Get-together 18:30End of first day

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

16. Agenda: Day Two 9:10Welcome/Logistics – Earl Joseph and Steve Finn, BAE Systems 9:15Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute Update, Directions and Concerns 9:45Marie-Christine Sawley, ETH Zurich, CERN group,Data taking and analysis at unprecedented scale: the example of CMS 10:15Paul Muzio, HPC Directions at the City University of New York 10:45Bull Technology Update, Jean-Marc Denis 11:30Break 11:45Lutz Schubert, HLRS, Workflow Management 12:15 New Software Technology Directions at Microsoft, Wolfgang Dreyer 12:30Wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Michael Resch, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn 12:35Farewell and Lunch

17. Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: October 2009 International HPC User Forum Meetings:  HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 5-6, 2009 (midday to midday)  EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 8-9, 2009 (midday to midday) US Meetings:  April 12 to 14, 2010 Dearborn, Michigan at the Dearborn Inn  September 13 to 15, 2010 Seattle, Washington

18. Thank You For Attending The 34 th HPC User Forum Meeting

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

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

21. Welcome To The 35 th HPC User Forum Meeting October 2009

22. Thank You To: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) For Hosting The Meeting!

23. Thank You To Our Sponsors! Altair Engineering Bull IBM Microsoft

24. Introduction: Logistics We have a very tight agenda (as usual)  Please help us keep on time! Review Agenda Times:  Please take advantage of breaks and free time to network with attendees  Note: We will post most of the presentations on the web site

25. 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.

26. 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

27. 1Q 2009 HPC Market Update

28. Q109 HPC Market Result – Down 16.8% Departmental ($250K - $100K) $754M Divisional ($250K - $500K) $237M Supercomputers (Over $500K) $802M Workgroup (under $100K) $282M HPC Servers $2.1B Source IDC, 2009

29. Q109 Vendor Share in Revenue

30. Q109 Cluster Vendor Shares

31. HPC Compared To IDC Server Numbers

32. HPC Qview Tie To Server Tracker: 1Q 2009 Data All WW Servers As Reported In IDC Server Tracker $9.9B HPC Qview Compute Node Revenues ~$1.05B* HPC Special Revenue Recognition Services Includes those sold through custom engineering, R&D offsets, or paid for over multiple quarters HPC Special Revenue Recognition Services ~$474M HPC Computer System Revenues Beyond The Base Compute Nodes: Includes interconnects and switches, inbuilt storage, scratch disks, OS, middleware, warranties, installation fees, service nodes, special cooling features, etc. Revenue Beyond Base Nodes ~$576M * This number ties the two data sets on an apples-to-apples basis Tracker QST Data Focus: Compute Nodes HPC Qview Data Focus: The Complete System: “Everything needed to turn it on” 3 HPC 1 QST 2 HPC

33. 2010 IDC HPC Research Areas Quarterly HPC Forecast Updates  Until the world economy recovers New HPC End-user Based Reports:  Clusters, processors, accelerators, storage, interconnects, system software, and applications  The evolution of government HPC budgets  China and Russia HPC trends Power and Cooling Research Developing a Market Model For Middleware and Management Software Extreme Computing Data Center Assessment and Benchmarking Tracking Petascale and Exascale Initiatives

34. Agenda: Day One 14:00HPC User Forum Welcome/Introductions, Steve Finn and Earl Joseph 14:15EPFL Welcome/Introductions, Henry Markram, EPFL and Giorgio Magaritondo, VP, EPFL 14:30Neil Stringfellow, CSCS/ETHZ, HPC Strategy in Switzerland, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre 15:00Henry Markram, Felix Schuermann, EPFL, and David Turek, IBM, "Blue Brain Project Update" 15:30IBM Research Partnerships, Dave Turek 15:45Altair Technology Update, Paolo Masera 16:00Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute Update, Directions and Concerns 16:30Break 16:45Markus Schulz, CERN High-throughput computing 17:15Robert Singleterry, NASA 18:00End of First Day

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

36. Agenda: Day Two 9:00Welcome/Logistics – Earl Joseph and Steve Finn, BAE Systems, Summarizing the September '09 User Forum 9:00Victor Reis, US Department of Energy 9:30Alan Gray, EPCC End User Site Update, University of Edinburgh 10:00Jim Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, "National Science Foundation Directions" 10:30Thomas Eickermann, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, PRACE Project Update 11:00Break 11:15Panel on Using HPC to Advance Science-Based Simulation Panel Moderators: Henry Markram and Steve Finn Panel Members: Jack Collins, Thomas Eickermann, Victor Reis, Felix Schuermann, Markus Schulz and Neil Stringfellow, 12:15New Software Technology Directions at Microsoft 12:30Wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Henry Markram, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn 12:45Farewell and Lunch

37. Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: October 2009 International HPC User Forum Meetings:  HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 5-6, 2009 (midday to midday)  EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 8-9, 2009 (midday to midday) US Meetings:  April 12 to 14, 2010 Dearborn, Michigan at the Dearborn Inn  September 13 to 15, 2010 Seattle, Washington

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

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

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

41. OEM Mix Of HPC Special Revenue Recognition Services Notes: Includes product sales that are not reported by OEMs as product revenue in a given quarter  Sometimes HPC systems are paid for across a number of quarters or even years Includes NRE – if required for a specific system Includes custom engineering sales Some examples – Earth Simulator, ASCI Red, ASCI Red Storm, DARPA systems, and many small and medium HPC systems that are sold through a custom engineering or services group because that need extra things added 2

42. Areas Of HPC “Uplift” Revenues 3

43. Notes: * Computer hardware (in cabinet) -- hybrid nodes, service nodes, accelerators, GPGPUs, FPGAs, internal interconnects, in-built disks, in-built switches, special cabinet doors, special signal processing parts, etc. * External interconnects -- switches, cables, extra cabinets to hold them, etc. * External storage -- scratch disks, interconnects to them, cabinets to hold them, etc. (This excludes user file storage devices) * Software -- includes both bundled and separately charged software if sold by the OEM, or on the purchase contract -- includes the operating system, license fees, the entire middleware stack, compilers, job schedules, etc. (it excludes all ISV applications unless sold by the OEM and in the purchase contract) * Bundled warranties * Misc. items -- Since the HPC taxonomy includes everything required to turn on the system and make it operational, items like bundled installation services, special features and other add-on hardware, and even a special paint job if required 3

44. Special Paint Jobs Are Back … http://www.afrl.hpc.mil/consolidated/hardware.php