IBM Systems Unleashing the power of a software defined infrastructure

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1 IBM Systems Unleashing the power of a software defined infrastructure Learn how organizations in cancer research, speech recognition, financial services, automotive design and more are using IBM solutions to improve business results

2 Introduction Engineering Chip Manufacturing Healthcare Life Sciences Financial Services Speech Recognition MINES ParisTech and Transvalor Healthcare System CME Group, Inc. Infiniti Red Bull Racing

3 Introduction Rising to new heights Throughout the world, organizations in different industries are leveraging IBM Software Defined Infrastructure solutions for big data, analytics, high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud to improve business results in a highly competitive market. IBM Software Defined Infrastructure enables organizations to deliver IT services in the most efficient way possible, leveraging resource utilization to accelerate time to results and reduce costs. It is the foundation for a fully integrated software defined environment, optimizing compute, storage and networking infrastructure so organizations can quickly adapt to changing business requirements. 3

4 A comprehensive portfolio of management tools dynamically manage workloads and data, transforming a static IT environment into a shared resource pool that is workload-, infrastructure- and data-aware. IBM Platform Computing provides a portfolio of sophisticated management tools for a software defined computing environment. Using these tools, organizations can maximize their resources to speed time to results and decrease infrastructure costs across the data center. IBM Spectrum Storage is the first software defined storage family designed to simplify and speed storage management, scale with data anywhere, and optimize economics with multi-brand virtualization, intelligent tiering and open application programming interface (API) support. The portfolio helps transform your business with hybrid cloud storage and data protection for analytics. The portfolio includes IBM Spectrum Scale, which offers fast, simplified management of software defined storage, providing easy accessibility and nondisruptive scaling for massive volumes of file and object data. In the following pages, you ll see how organizations are using IBM Software Defined Infrastructure solutions to achieve their goals and get more out of their compute and storage resources. Whether it s human genome research for cancer treatments and personalized medicine, aerodynamics testing for race cars or analyzing stock portfolios for risk assessment, these stories demonstrate how a software defined infrastructure leads to improved business agility while accelerating time to results and reducing costs. 4

5 MINES ParisTech and Transvalor A shared HPC environment for advanced simulations As design simulation models continue to grow in complexity, more small and mid-sized engineering companies need to leverage highperformance computing (HPC) technologies in order to remain competitive. However, they often lack the time, domain expertise and capital needed to invest in HPC clusters, or to buy the annual software licenses required. By partnering with IBM, simulation software provider Transvalor was able to offer its clients HPC capabilities that have previously been limited only to large organizations. 90 % reduction in time to deploy new HPC applications with IBM High Performance Services 5

6 Transvalor and the MINES ParisTech school of engineering developed Aeromines, a cloud-based HPC environment for advanced simulations. Transvalor selected IBM High Performance Services, running on IBM SoftLayer infrastructure, as its primary environment for Aeromines. According to Romain Klein, cloud architect at Transvalor, We needed an HPC partner with domain expertise and a robust, bare-metal cloud platform. Using our IBM solution, we can get a new Aeromines job up and running within just one month shortening the lead time by 90 percent. Results The Aeromines solution offers costeffective, pay-as-you-go access to secure cluster resources for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Rapid provisioning of cluster resources reduces lead time when launching new projects. The flexible Aeromines platform allows clients to design and scale simulation environments according to their needs. IBM High Performance Services allow Transvalor to quickly, securely and economically add computing capacity based on individual client requirements. IBM Platform LSF software enables us to create intelligent, policy-based schedules to optimize performance and capacity utilization on the cluster. Romain Klein cloud architect at Transvalor Download full case study View video 6

7 Infiniti Red Bull Racing HPC technology helps make cars go faster Infiniti Red Bull Racing s engineering team is focused on designing and building world-championship Formula 1 racing cars. IBM Platform Computing provides the backbone of the high-performance computing (HPC) system used by the engineers to design and test components that will improve a race car s speed and performance. IBM Platform Computing allows the engineers to perform an increased number of virtual aerodynamic simulations, which speeds up the design process and reduces on-track test time by helping the team perfect car components as much as possible before manufacturing. 30 % faster simulations with IBM Platform Computing products 7

8 Infiniti Red Bull Racing s engineering team works in conjunction with the IBM Platform Computing support team to continuously develop new software tools to help solve simulation problems. Al Peasland, head of technical partnership for Infiniti Red Bull Racing, says, With the IBM Platform LSF family of products, we have seen a 20 to 30 percent reduction in the time it takes to complete simulations simply by being able to design complex, interdependent workflows and schedule individual jobs automatically. Results With help from IBM Platform Computing, the Infiniti Red Bull Racing team has won six world championships three for car design and three for driving in three consecutive years. Using IBM Platform Computing products, the team can redesign, model and build a new Formula One car in about half the time that it used to take in the past. IBM Platform LSF enables Infiniti Red Bull Racing s engineers to schedule consecutive or parallel simulation analyses. Reporting tools keep senior executives updated on progress. Ability to optimize license scheduling means priority jobs can always run without needing to over-provision licenses. IBM Platform Computing has played a huge role in speeding up design, simulation and analysis, and now forms an integral part of how Infiniti Red Bull Racing develops championship-winning Formula One cars. Al Peasland head of technical partnership for Infiniti Red Bull Racing Download full case study View webinar 8

9 Cypress Accelerating time to market while reducing costs As a leading chip manufacturer, Cypress sought to cut its total cycle time (TCT), with the goals of bringing new products to market faster and reducing design costs. Cypress uses highperformance computing (HPC) clusters, managed by IBM Platform LSF, for chip design, schematic simulations and global collaboration between design teams. But with storage performance and capacity problems affecting TCT, Cypress needed a centralized, more scalable storage approach. 50 % boost in storage performance with IBM Spectrum Scale 9

10 Cypress deployed IBM Spectrum Scale to provide high-performance, globally accessible clusters in its data centers, allowing teams in six chip design centers worldwide to have shared access to the central file store used in schematic simulations. With IBM Spectrum Scale, we can improve storage performance by sharing the load across newly added servers. Alan Malek, director of IT, Cypress More predictable storage performance enables Cypress to size its capacity requirements more accurately in one case leading to a 50 percent performance boost. Alan Malek, director of IT at Cypress, says, Jobs run more reliably, with better performance and more equal distribution between data centers. Faster processes help us cut TCT and get products to market faster and at lower cost. Download full case study Results Ten times better performance on the same hardware reduces total cycle time. Less TCT equals faster time to market and major design cost savings. workstations access common data using the IBM Spectrum Scale built-in clustered Network File System (NFS) component, avoiding additional license costs. IBM Spectrum Scale provides high availability for Cypress s business-critical electronic design automation (EDA) processes, which run on clusters managed by IBM Platform LSF. High reliability helps eliminate unplanned downtime and lowers TCO. 10

11 Leading US Expediting genome analysis for quicker diagnosis of cancer treatments As part of its ongoing research of pediatric cancers, this leading US hospital must store ever-increasing volumes of scientific data about human genome sequencing. The hospital wanted to optimize genomic information processing and analysis, but its existing file-storage environment was a major bottleneck in providing adequate capacity and speed of access. 10x lower storage costs with IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect 11

12 The hospital deployed IBM Spectrum Scale, integrated with IBM Spectrum Protect for Hierarchical Storage Management, based on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, to store massive amounts of data, comprising some 1.6 billion files across both disk and tape. It also deployed two IBM Spectrum Scale caches, using IBM System Storage DCS3700 hardware, to help ensure consistent high performance for research groups. The hospital s storage architect cites IBM Spectrum Scale performance, along with the compute and IBM Platform LSF infrastructure, as an important contributor in improving cancer treatment: For some users, processing times have fallen by a factor of 10, so what previously took days now takes hours. The faster we can process and analyze a genome, the sooner the clinician can determine the best treatment, helping improve outcomes. Download full case study Results More than 20 percent increase in performance and throughput. Reporting tools keep senior executives updated on progress. Ability to optimize license scheduling means priority jobs can always run without needing to over-provision licenses. With genuine workloads, we are meeting or exceeding the promised performance for our IBM Spectrum Scale environment. Performance supports better patient outcomes, so this is a really important benefit. Hospital s storage architect 12

13 Wellcome Trust Accelerating genomic research and collaboration The wanted to help its 1,100 England-based human genome researchers collaborate more effectively and meet deadlines with other research teams around the globe. The Institute needed to optimize utilization of its high-performance computing (HPC) resources on 15,000 active cores, spread across nine large clusters, but legacy optimization tools made this difficult. To solve the problem, the Institute implemented IBM Platform Analytics software on top of IBM Platform LSF, its policy-based workload scheduling solution. Using IBM Platform Analytics, the institute designed custom dashboards to provide its researchers and administrators with detailed, real-time memory utilization metrics for each job across the cluster. These metrics enabled the Institute to modify its scheduling processes to utilize the full capacity of the HPC environment. Full utilization of HPC with IBM Platform Analytics helps research teams generate results rapidly 13

14 According to Dr. Peter Clapham, principal systems administrator for the Informatics Systems Group, We are now seeing more jobs submitted with accurate memory requirements which means more efficient use of our compute resources overall. In fact, one group has now met all of its current research deadlines and has started processing work from collaborating teams. Results IBM Platform Analytics allows the Institute to create custom dashboards to monitor memory usage across the cluster. Utilization metrics help the Institute use the full capacity of its HPC environment through modified scheduling. Jobs that require less memory can be assigned to low-memory nodes, dramatically improving throughput. Utilization metrics strengthen the business case for future hardware investments. We have used IBM Platform LSF software to help schedule workloads on our clusters for a number of years. Our positive experience gave us confidence that the IBM Platform Analytics solution could help us to achieve our operational goals. Dr. Peter Clapham Principal Systems Administrator Informatics Systems Group Wellcome Trust Download full case study 14

15 Unleashing the power of a software defined infrastructure CME Group, Inc. Massive calculations for risk assessment CME Group, Inc., a financial exchange company, was formed in 2007 by a merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. The company handles trading of over 12 million contracts daily, and manages over USD100 billion in collateral. CME developed the Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk (SPAN), considered the industry standard for portfolio risk assessment. With recent changes in financial regulations, such as Dodd-Frank, CME is required to perform SPAN risk assessment several times daily for each individual customer s portfolio. This means CME must perform hundreds of thousands of SPAN calculations per day. 700x more calculations with IBM Platform Symphony 15 MINES ParisTech and Transvalor Infiniti Red Bull Racing Cypress Leading US Wellcome Trust C ME Group, Inc. N uance

16 To manage its high-performance computing grid and big data calculations, CME deployed IBM Platform Symphony. CME Group can now scale up to perform 700x the margin and risk assessment calculations, in minutes rather than hours. As Steve Goldman, executive director, Technology, Planning and Acquisition for CME, recalls, When we ran the first tests on our system using Platform Symphony, we thought the risk assessment calculations would take an hour-and-a-half to two hours. Instead, it was done in minutes. That was when we knew this solution was going to work. Results IBM Platform Symphony manages over 200,000 big data calculations per day on CME s high-performance grid. Long-running financial analytical processes are performed in minutes rather than hours. IBM Platform Symphony allows CME to handle more trading volume, serve more customers, and provide better and faster customer service. Thanks to IBM Platform Symphony, CME Group can now scale up to perform margin and risk assessment calculations in minutes rather than hours. Steve Goldman executive director Technology, Planning and Acquisition, CME View Video 16

17 Nuance Storage for billions of voices Nuance is the leading provider of speech-recognition software, famous for Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and for voice-recognition technology used in automotive, mobile and consumer electronics devices. To keep its speechrecognition systems up to date and performing accurately, Nuance collects and analyzes thousands of speech data files per day. The company processes hundreds of terabytes of data daily and runs tens of millions of jobs per month. Nuance needed a way to store these billions of files, while also providing easy file access for its high-performance computing (HPC) community of users. 20 % boost in storage performance with IBM Spectrum Scale software The results speak for themselves: 600 TB of data per day 20 million jobs per month 17

18 To achieve these goals, Nuance deployed IBM Spectrum Scale technology, giving its developer community fast, parallel file access, with automatic policy-based tiering that balances storage cost and performance. IBM Spectrum Scale also enables the non-disruptive addition of capacity and migration of data on Nuance s HPC systems. Bob Oesterlin, senior storage engineer at Nuance, says, We can add storage or clients in real time, rebalance existing storage where we see hotspots, take devices offline for maintenance all with no impact on performance. Results Non-disruptive scaling keeps fast-growing HPC grids productive at all times. can add storage or clients in real time, and rebalance existing storage to remove hotspots. Policy-based file placement provides optimal balance between performance and costs. Spectrum Scale tiering helps us utilize our capacity efficiently, and it is self-optimizing over time. Also, we can use older systems longer, and drive more value from past investments. Bob Oesterlin Senior Storage Engineer Nuance Download full case study View webinar 18

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