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Introducing Nimbix
supercomputing made super human™
Leo Reiter, Chief Technology Officer
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About Nimbix
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• Founded in 2010
• Headquartered in Dallas, TX
• Big Compute Cloud Platform for:
• Big Data (High Performance Data
Analysis)
• Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
• Media and Entertainment
• Life Sciences/Bioinformatics
• Oil & Gas
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Featured Customers and Partners
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Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
for Agricultural Research
Photorealistic real-time graphics rendering
(e-commerce, etc.)
Big Data/HPDA (Marketing Analytics)
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What Nimbix is All About
• Turn-key cloud solutions that quickly solve the toughest
computing challenges:
• Applications and workflows, not machines and instances
• Affordable results, not just cheap core hours
• Real world solutions, not benchmarks and “experiments”
• Nimbix aspires to be the company that unleashes
global innovation by taking high performance
computing out of its traditional settings and bringing
it into the mainstream, much like the PC revolution
did to the world of the mainframe.
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Supercomputing made super human™
Cloud-based
Elastic Scale
Self Service
Bare-metal Performance
Patented “Reconfigurable Cloud Computing”
Patent-pending containerized application technology
for HPC workflows
Heterogeneity
Accelerators, CPU Architectures, Interconnects
Right Tools for the Job
Multi-step, multi-platform Workflows
Ease of Use, Time to Value
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Diverse ApplicationsIntegrated StorageHeterogeneous Hardware
The Nimbix Cloud
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JARVICE: Powering the Nimbix Cloud
• Market’s First Cloud Platform purpose-built for HPC
applications
• Self-service, multi-tenant supercomputer built and operated by
Nimbix
• Patented Reconfigurable Cloud Computing
• 2 additional patents pending, including dynamic orchestration of
containerized applications applied to HPC workflows
• Public, Hybrid, Private
• SaaS and PaaS Delivery Models
• SaaS for end users
• PaaS for developers to build end user applications
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What has JARVICE been up to?
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Engineering &
Manufacturing
Big Data &
Analytics
Media &
Entertainment
Life Sciences Oil & Gas
Fluid Dynamics
Structural and
Mechanical
Simulation
Electromagnetic
Simulation
Multiphysics
Marketing Analytics
Data Science
Machine Learning
Transcoding
Real-time video
analysis
Real-time
photorealistic
rendering
Animation
Next Generation
Sequencing (NGS)
Genetic Alignment
and Search
Seismic Processing
Reverse Time
Migration (RTM)
Fluid Dynamics
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JARVICE Solution Overview
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COMPUTE WORKLOADS
CAE, Seismic Processing, Bioinformatics,
Transcoding, Rendering, etc.
HPC Cloud Platform
External Data NACC Files
APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTS
Nimbix Application Environment (NAE),
Develop, Test, Snapshot, Repeat
Interactivity
Infrastructure
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Build, Compute, Visualize Workflow
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Preprocessing
Development
Customization
…
Computation
Transformation
Simulation
…
Postprocessing
Visualization
…
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JARVICE Features
• Self-service, pay per use
• Hourly or subscription
• Baremetal processing
• High performance, integrated storage
• Supercomputing co-processors and accelerators:
• NVIDIA Kepler, Intel Xeon Phi, FPGA
• FDR Infiniband
• Both batch and interactive applications
• 3D capable with server-side rendering
• Both web UI and API
• Point-and-click ease of use (desktop and mobile), or scriptable automation
• Both SaaS and PaaS
• Developers and end users, as well as custom use cases
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Nimbix Application Environment
• Full CentOS or Ubuntu Linux Environment
• Root Access
• Generous Local Transient Storage
• POSIX-compliant access to User Persistent Storage
• Full Access to underlying Hardware:
• CPU Cores
• RAM
• Co-processors and Accelerators, if applicable
• Infiniband, if applicable
• Image Management:
• Snapshot to save changes to environment
• Cancel to revert changes
• Clone to create copy for new environment
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Nimbix Application Environment Types
PaaS for Developers
• Hadoop/Spark
• Eclipse
• RealityServer
• OpenGL
• OpenCL
• CUDA
• OpenMPI
• Custom/other (Linux-based)
SaaS for End Users
• CAE:
• ANSYS Multiphysics
• CST
• CD-Adapco
• CAE Fidesys
• Bioinformatics:
• PacBio (Pacific Biosciences)
• BLAST
• Rendering:
• Blender
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Learn more about Nimbix
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