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Engaging the Mid-Market

PRIMEFLEX for HPC

Copyright 2015 FUJITSU

Ian Godfrey, Fujitsu Systems Europe

15 October 2015

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Agenda


High Performance Computing usage across the client spectrum

Mid-Market characterisation

Aspirations & Afflictions

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How applications define the PRIMEFLEX configuration

PRIMEFLEX offer interaction process

Users way of working

Variants & Extensions

Solution positioning

Sizing for customer

PRIMEFLEX for HPC: Engaging with the mid-market

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HPC client spectrum

Aspirations and Afflictions


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HPC market spectrum

Copyright 2015 FUJITSU SYSTEMS EUROPE

Workgroup Under $100K

Departmental $100K-$250K

Divisional $250K-$500K

Supercomputer Above $500K CAGR

7.5%

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Customer characterisation


Segment HPC Purpose Requirements

High-end Systems now support several independent subgroups, or dedicated to large ongoing (often mission-critical) applications. HPC fully systematised with dedicated administration. Likely to have evolved a methods and tools team to interface to users, possibly with an emerging corporate middleware stack.

Better governance and control over workloads, technology giving optimal price-performance.

Mid-range Adopted design virtualisation, but using isolated physics and no optimisation – processes not systematic. Considering dedicating capacity to extend research innovation.

New processes and different methods to increase competitiveness.

Entry-level A tool to improve quality or a research aid for innovation. May not yet be critical to the business, or still looking to embed HPC into full R&D workflows.

Easy migration to HPC, usability, interested in outcome not technology.

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User characterisation

HPC expert HPC user HPC consumer

Better job management

Onboard standardised

templates

Formalise optimal workflows

Higher productivity and

throughput

New applications and

physics

New processes

First applications

Workstation extension

New domains


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Revision on HPC Applications


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Addressable market for an HPC Appliance


Workgroup Under $100K

Departmental $100K-$250K

Divisional $250K-$500K

Supercomputer Above $500K

Mid

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ket

Business-defined Appliance Line

Converged Infrastructure Factory Build methodology

HPC processes and structures

Application- and segment-defined architectures

Channel sales, distribution, support

Build, test and certification of appliance

Proactive performance analysis and design

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Aspirations – IDC Research ROI Survey 2015


Source: PublicIDCDOEROIResearchUpdate8.19.2015

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Aspirations


Some critical insights came from companies who are

doing modeling and simulation at the desktop level. 46

out of 64 (72%) felt that increased adoption of

advanced computational methods would lead to

competitive advantage for their companies, and 51 out

of 62 (82%) felt there should be greater opportunities

for companies like theirs to be able to test new

technologies at lower cost and lower risk.

Intersect360 Research,

Modeling and Simulation

among US Manufacturers

Some The best HPC adopters consider themselves to be

engineering leaders.

40–50% of small manufacturers view R&D leadership as

their competitive advantage.

These manufacturers are leaders. They think big, not small

Intersect360 Research,

HPC Trends & Market Update

Data Science

becomes practical

in everyday

processes

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Afflictions – Spotlight on Digital Manufacturing


Source: Intersect360 Research

Distribution of companies using HPC for

Digital Manufacturing

Relative HPC usage

among smaller

companies

Many smaller organisations

are yet to fully adopt HPC

Addressable market with

motivation and viable potential

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Afflictions – Barriers to HPC

Barrier to Expanded Usage of Simulation

Lack of IT hardware and support infrastructure

Lack of IT expertise and support

Barrier to Adopting or Expanding New HPC infrastructure

Need of evidence of technical benefits for their simulation workloads

Lack of time and expertise to specify the hardware configuration

Courtesy of ANSYS Inc.


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Designing PRIMEFLEX for HPC

How HPC application use defines the baseline and variants


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Application installation count by origin


Application type, Intersect360 Research 2011

20% 56% 24%

Hardware revenue fraction, IDC2015

Public = 10%

Open source = 34%

In-house = 25%

Commercial = 31%

Source: “Solve. The Exascale Effect:

Benefits of Supercomputing Investment

for U.S. Industry,”

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A standard HPC job process


Pre-processing - Model geometry

- Physical parameters

- Simulation definition

Post-processing - Result analysis

- Report conclusions

- Archive output

Parallel computation - Simulation

- Analysis

- Rendering

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Scripts and Command Line

But many weaknesses in this approach

Maintenance –

Naming, versioning, change history

Errors –

Coding & debugging skills, no automated

validation, lost queue time


$ cd dlpoly/

$ cd run

$ vi job

$ qsub job

$ qstat

$ ls

$ cd run.20221/

$ ls -l

#!/bin/sh

#PBS -N DL_POLY_Classic

#PBS -j oe

#PBS -l select=1:ncpus=20:mpiprocs=20:ompthreads=1

#PBS -q h12

## DL_POLY Classic environment

Module load dlpoly_classic

## Move to execution directory

jobid=$(echo $PBS_JOBID | cut -d"." -f1)

work=$(pwd)/run.$jobid ; mkdir -p $work ; cd $work

## Get data

data=/dx90/iang/dlpoly/data ; model=bench5

cp -rp $data/$model/* .

## Run DL_POLY application

np=$(cat $PBS_NODEFILE | wc -l)

mpirun -np $np DLPOLY.X

## END OF FILE

Still the most common way HPC

users work with clusters …

Filename: job

This is NOT the core activity of the engineer or researcher

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PRIMEFLEX for HPC

NO EXPERTISE NO EXPERTISE

ALL HPC APPLICATIONS

APPLIANCE OPEN PLATFORM

ON-DEMAND RESOURCES

FAST DEPLOYMENT

ON-DEMAND RESOURCES

OPTIMISED BESPOKE APPLICATIONS

Workgroup Departmental Divisional Supercomputer

For

HPC

REDUCED RISK REDUCED RISK

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Line of Appliances


Management software

User workplace

PRIMEFLEX for HPC

HPC Gateway

Application Catalogue

System design Head node Compute nodes

Interconnect Graphics

Storage

Rack & Power

Batch Operation Administration

Application Appliance Open Platform Appliance

Simplicity Expertise Assurance

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Appliance design – Proactive benchmarking


Model name Sedan

General description External Flow over passenger sedan

Size 4M cells

Cell Type Mixed

Solver Pressure based coupled solver,

Green-Gauss cell based, steady

Physics Standard K-e Turbulence

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Architecting an Appliance

3 standard architectures for PRIMEFLEX

for HPC appliances

Architecture primarily based on

computational capacity

Number of compute nodes, or,

Number of compute processors, or

Number of compute processor cores.

Characterized by the compute nodes which

use both PRIMERGY RX or CX

Entry-Level (RX only)

RX-Based

CX-Based

Appliance general guidelines

An Entry-Level appliance will comprise just two RX

nodes

The largest number of nodes for any appliance is

achieved by using CX technology.

The capacity switchover point between RX and CX is

dependent on the type of appliance.

Other dimensions are relevant to variants

Absolute performance, and,

Storage capacity, and,

Maximum single job performance.


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Appliance Building blocks


Platform

Base

Increment

Rack

Entry RX CX

None Single cabinet Single cabinet

Single-switch maximum

Not available

No switch –

direct interconnect

Single-switch maximum

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PRIMEFLEX for HPC topology

Topology has five main parts.

Head node

Compute nodes

Standard internal network

Fast interconnect

Attached storage

All components are pre-installed into a rack in the factory,

including all network cabling

Entry-level appliance is exception with only two PRIMERGY

nodes

One node as both the head and compute functions.

Both nodes are directly connected.

No rack is included.

Attached ETERNUS storage always optional – it is not defined

by the application or purpose of the appliance

Link from head node connects appliance to customer network


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Appliance dimensioning factors


Factor Meaning

Size of computational models Models are defined by the combination of many physical and behavioural factors specific to the

application and discipline. Examples include finite element size/count, degrees of freedom, rendered

frames, turbulence model, etc.

Job submission intensity Intensity measured over a given period can cover a spectrum from few very large models to huge

numbers of very small models. Usually, the period most relevant to customers is one day or overnight.

Job intensity is also linked to the number of users registered on the system.

Number of users User may be experts, or increasingly relatively less expert in HPC/simulation specifically. More users may

be assumed to lead to higher job intensity, but will also create more loads on memory and storage,

impacting choices among the allowed variants.

Commercial application

licenses

The throughput and/or maximum size of a single job will be limited by the licensing mechanism of any

commercial code that is used by the customer. For a single-application appliance this is likely to be the

only relevant factor for cluster sizing.

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RX Appliance

An RX-based appliance uses only RX technology for its

compute nodes

This solution is positioned for clients and applications where

single node increments are preferable and rack density is not

limiting

There may also be some node price advantages from using the

PRIMERGY RX systems.


Increment unit

Base unit

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CX Appliance units


Increment unit

Base unit

An CX-based appliance uses only CX technology for its

compute nodes

Positioned for applications where more scale is required or

anticipated

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Common node specifications


Node type PRIMERGY RX2540 PRIMERGY RX2530 PRIMERGY CX2550

Height 2U 1U 4 nodes in 2U CX400 enclosure

Processor 1x Intel Xeon E5-2620v3 6C/12T 2.40 GHz 2x Intel Xeon E5-2600v3 family – Optimal processor selected according to appliance

Memory 16GB (1x16GB) 2Rx4 DDR4-2133 R ECC Minimum 64GB (8x1x8GB) 2Rx8 DDR4-2133 R ECC

System storage 2x HD SAS 6G 300GB 10K 2.5'' EP RAID1 1x 250GB SATA

Data storage 5x 1TB SATA RAID5 None

Internal network 1 GbE

Fast interconnect Intel TrueScale

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End-User working needs

Team organisation Work management Expert methods

Democratization Application-centric Coherent interface

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PRIMEFLEX for HPC interaction process

From prospect to entry into service


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Sales Interaction Process

End-to-end procedures to

increase sales efficiency and

support customer dialogue

Dedicated quoting tool for

immediate selection of

reference configurations and

offer sizing

Pre-sales validate

configuration variants and

extensions

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Interaction Process


Request

Sales register opportunity in usual PRIMERGY process

Sales send PRIMEFLEX requirements to Partner Account Manager [Channel] and Pre-Sales (if known).

• Use PRIMEFLEX for HPC Quote Tool to describe the offer – Type, Size, Variant

• Replicate request to [email protected]

Configuration

Pre-Sales consultant allocated.

• All communication on the opportunity only to the named Pre-Sales consultant

• Pre-Sales discussion with customer/reseller as required

Pre-sales validate the PXHPC quote

• Confirm allowable variants

• Provide pre-tested performance report (proactive benchmark data and comparisons).

• Email to sales person as a normal Pre-Sales response

Delivery

Assembly, software installation and certification of PRIMEFLEX system in factory (Augsburg).

Optional application installation and testing.

Shipment to customer site. Local integration by Channel Partner (or Fujitsu region).

Handover of operational and certification documents.

Startup training for operators and end-user.

Sign-off and entry into service.

mailto:[email protected]

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Simplify HPC

Value Positioning – Fujitsu HPC Gateway

Build in Expertise


Productive at first login More users can work with HPC even with little/no IT skill

No more scripts Job preparation in seconds rather than hours

HPC on the Desktop Intuitive collaborative workplace for newcomers to experts

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Applications in HPC Gateway


Onboard application from local methods

Import pre-built package from Fujitsu Application Catalogue

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Building on HPC Gateway Platform


Application base

ANSYS Fluent COMSOL

Multiphysics

Vert

ical

ada

ptat

ion

Higher customer value

App building

Business processes

Analytic logic

Gateway Application Catalogue

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HPC Gateway Demo Centre

Fujitsu HPC Gateway is the

end-user interface in

PRIMEFLEX for HPC

An online demonstrator is

available for trial

Users can sign up on

dedicated web page

Login and secure private area

are assigned by return

Initial trial period of 2 weeks


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Solution Sizing and Offer

PRIMEFLEX for HPC solutions are

sold as packaged offers

Line of Appliances provides a

dynamic basis for application

coverage

Offers tuned for key segments

Quick-quote tool enables early client

engagement and value discussion


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PRIMEFLEX For HPC Value Positioning


Customer constraints Our advantages

Workstation user – first cluster

HPC model sizes severely constrained by undersized

platforms.

Larger systems seen as risky, difficult to use/manage,

unproven.

Simplest way of working with HPC clusters, especially non-

experts.

Immediate impact from product quality improvements and

design innovation.

Value trade-up HPC limited to a few experts.

Usage must be systematised before onboarding more users

and projects.

Expect more value in operational robustness and

productivity.

Assurance on usability and methods expertise raises

confidence in HPC processes and step up in throughput.

Less constrained by limits of internal expertise.

Customers recognise drive towards faster speed of service and

ability to engage on more projects.

Ready to scale Want a coherent approach for next stage –

standardisation, collaboration, integration.

Modularisation and continuity can allow rapid scale-up for

newer applications and disciplines.

Company increasingly responding to newer, often more

ambitious, projects.

Multi-domain projects and wider team collaboration

emerging.

Technical workforce more fully activated on HPC.

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