Klaus Gottschalk from IBM presented this deck at the 2016 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference.
"Last year IBM together with partners out of the OpenPOWER foundation won two of the multi-year contacts of the US CORAL program. Within these contacts IBM develops an ac- celerated HPC infrastructure and software development ecosystem that will be a major step towards Exascale Computing. We believe that the CORAL roadmap will enable a massive pull for transformation of HPC codes for accelerated systems. The talk will discuss the IBM HPC strategy, explain the OpenPOWER foundation and the show IBM OpenPOWER roadmap for CORAL and beyond."
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18. IBM Platform LSF 10.1 (Q2 2016)
• Productivity-centric, enterprise-class workload
management for HPC environments
• Intelligent policy-based data management
• Optimized for both high throughput and traditional
HPC applications
12x less work
150x less work
6x less work
LSF 9.1.2 (2013) LSF 9.1.3.3 (2015) 5.8 million jobs/hr
High throughput synthetic benchmark externally audited and verified
Superior repeatable performance = better business outcomes
IBM Confidential until announced
Ease of Use
•Understand why
workload is not
running
•Understand when
work will run
HPC Accessibility
•Web enabled workflows
•Simplify migration
to the cloud
Performance
at Scale
• Delivering next
evolution of
performance and
scalability
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19. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Using analytics to optimize high performance computing capacity across 15,000 cores
Problem
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a non-profit research organization
based in Hinxton, England, wanted to accelerate results to meet scientific
journal publication deadlines and secure funding for future projects.
Solution
• Platform LSF® policy-based scheduler
• IBM® Platform™ Analytics with Custom dashboards showing cluster
utilization according to criteria such as job, job submitter & memory use
• IBM® Platform™ Process Manager for workflow design and execution
Outcome
• Each job runs on the optimal compute node increasing throughput across
the HPC environment
• Researchers understand the factors that reduce processing efficiency,
and take action to improve performance
• A clear record of efficient compute utilization enables a
strong business case for future growth investments
Industry: Research
Products: IBM Platform™ LSF®
IBM Platform Analytics
IBM Platform Process Manager
Overview
Profile
“Analytics is one of the most significant IT
investments that we have made. We needed
the IBM solution to deliver the HPC utilization
required to help our research teams generate
results rapidly, meet their publication
deadlines and, ultimately, secure new
funding.”
Dr. Peter Clapham
Principal Systems Administrator, Informatics Systems
Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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21. DESY - Research institute in Germany
Accelerating experimental outcomes with IBM Software Defined Infrastructure
Solution components
The Challenge
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron needed a solution that
could keep up with one of the most powerful x-rays in the world,
rapidly delivering experimental results to researchers
The Solution
A high-performance IBM storage and compute solution to support
increasingly sophisticated experiments and offers analysis-as-a-
service, allowing scientists to tap into DESY’s particle accelerator
facilities and access the data from anywhere in the world.
The Results
§ Accelerates research with data available for analysis in
4 minutes, down from 2-3 days
§ Accommodates more demanding projects, handling 20GB/second
§ Scales up for continuing innovation
• IBM® Elastic Storage™ Server
• IBM Spectrum Scale
• IBM Platform HPC
• IBM Power Systems™ running Linux
• IBM Advanced Business Partner:
MCS Moorbek Computer Systeme GmbH
"The ability to provide scientists with data on very short time scales
has changed the way experiments are done at the beam line.”
--Steve Aplin, senior scientist 21
23. Leading Object Storage Innovation: Spectrum Scale and Cleversafe
IBM offers complementary Object storage offerings - each delivering
industry leading innovations for different workloads / use cases
• Cleversafe is designed to enable secure, large scale active archives and
cloud-based content repositories where focus is on lowest cost at scale
• Erasure coding delivers cost-efficient reliability, requiring less space than triple copy approaches
• Unique keyless encryption technology provides strong security for Object archives
• Spectrum Scale offers large scale File & Object storage that supports
high performance processing and big data analytics
• Supports multiple architectures: storage rich servers; NAS clusters; globally distributed grids
• POSIX support for scale-out OLTP databases and data warehouses
• Integrated lifecycle management across Flash, Disk and Tape tiers
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