High-Performance Computing (HPC) Up-close

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1 High-Performance Computing (HPC) Up-close What It Can Do For You In this InfoBrief, we examine what High-Performance Computing is, how industry is benefiting, why it equips business for the future, what the datacenter of the future must have, and eco-system advantages that can ease the adoption of HPC. Intel Xeon processor

2 High-Performance Computing Up-close / 01 Executive Summary High-Performance Computing (HPC) refers to aggregating computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than one could get out of a typical desktop computer or workstation, in order to solve large problems in science, engineering or business. HPC workloads such as simulation and analytics are especially demanding on computation, memory usage and data management. Sometimes referred to as a Cluster or Supercomputer, a typical HPC system is designed for parallel execution of applications through scaling out of many servers connected via high-speed, low-latency networking. The HPC system may also include associated software, tools, components, storage, and services. BUSINESS IMPACT GOODYEAR REDUCED KEY PRODUCT DESIGN TIME FOR TIRES, FROM 3 YEARS TO LESS THAN 1 YEAR WITH ITS HPC CLUSTERS. According to an IDC study in 2016, every dollar invested in HPC returned $514.7 in revenue.

3 High-Performance Computing Up-close / 02 HOW VARIOUS INDUSTRIES BENEFIT FROM HPC High-performance computing (HPC) is inseparably linked to innovation, fueling breakthroughs in science, engineering, and business across various industries. Find out how HPC is accelerating digital transformation across your industry. Financial Services Fraud detection Algorithm trading Risk analysis Engineering Visualization Structural analysis Fluid dynamics Electronic design automation New Automation Self-driving cars Personal robotics Automated machinery In-Flight Analytics Marketing/Retail Ad targeting Speech Recognition Customized sales Manufacturing Multi-variable quality Predictive maintenance Automative Analytics Sporting Goods development Security/Defense Stream surveillance Face recognition Threat analysis/action HPC Becomes Indispensable The impact of High-Performance Computing (HPC) cuts across industries to offer commercial benefits like Business Intelligence using Analytics. Similarly, HPC enables a wide spectrum of industries to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to raise productivity and become more competitive. Oil & Gas/Energy Monitoring of gas pipelines Seismic analysis Media Video suggestions Language translation Video captioning Image/video/voice/text recognition 3D animation Hyperscale Video suggestion Language Translation Healthcare Diagnostics Drug discovery Cancer cell detection Personalized treatment Genomics In fact, HPC has entered your daily life. For confirmation, you need only see the weather prediction for next week (Climate Modeling), or notice the customized purchase recommendations when shopping online (Customized Marketing).

4 High-Performance Computing Up-close / 03 WHY HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IS ESSENTIAL FOR BUSINESS The twin revolutions of information and communication have resulted in data being produced and transmitted more easily than ever. The next step would be to take the available data, and use it to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges. ENABLING HIGH VALUE CAPTURE FROM DATA 4 Reasons Why HPC Equips Your Business for the Future 1. Provides the scale, power and density to help clients solve problems faster. Machine / Deep learning 2. Make better decisions by running larger, more sophisticated models. Value Predictive analytics: How can we make it happen? Predictive analytics: What will happen? Hindsight Foresight Descriptive analytics: Diagnostic analytics: What happened? Why did it happen? 3. Spot trends faster and more effectively by reducing total time to results. 4. Manage risk better by increasing accuracy and visibility of models and datasets. Business Impact Biotech firm Biogemma s HPC cluster cut run-times from hours to minutes for analysis of large complex genomic data sets. That s up to a 99% improvement, eliminating queues for computational resources. Difficulty Research center CERFACS innovates better with their computing cluster, which enabled up to 30% performance gains and 50% energy savings. Business analytics solutions that incorporate Predictive Analytics see 250% ROI. Predictive Analytics offers triple the ROI, versus other information access and internal productivity projects. Researchers at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) can now run larger molecular simulations than ever before (up to 1 quadrillion cells, increasing resolution by a factor of 100), even as LRZ saves 35% in operating costs compared to air-cooled systems. Source: IDC, The Business Value of Predictive Analytics, June 2011

5 High-Performance Computing Up-close / 04 INVESTMENT IN HPC IS ACCELERATING Having seen its benefits and how vital HPC is for growth, companies have invested in it to make sure they aren t left behind. Even in a slowing economy, HPC is growing at an average of 4.3% a year as per market research. GROWTH OF HPC REVENUE BY PRODUCT CLASS 40,000 KEY TRENDS DRIVING UPGRADES: Technology trends have combined to make upgrades worth the capex, as compared to using existing hardware. Parallel Processing: Co-processor solutions like NVIDIA s Tesla GPU and Intel s Xeon Phi can now run hundreds and thousands of threads on each HPC node. This dramatically increases available compute power. Power Consumption: Processor cores consume half the power they did 5 years ago, enabling higher density of computing power in datacentres, and lowering cooling costs. 30,000 Memory: Plentiful onboard RAM can now be measured in Terabytes, enabling even faster enterprise applications and databases that run directly in-memory. 20,000 RISE OF OPEN STANDARDS The market now demands open standards, for seamless integration into existing datacenters. 10,000 Manage Workloads seamlessly with tools like Slurm across clusters. OpenStack Ready to manage Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) UEFi and imm standards for hardware diagnostics and remote-control IPMI 2.0 Compliant to centrally obtain details of powered-off systems. Servers Storage Services Software Networks Cloud Other *Data by Intersect 360 Research Strong growth is projected for the next five years, in CAGR terms. In particular, the Cloud segment will see aggressive growth on a low base, while Storage and Servers classes will see an even larger expansion in absolute terms. xcat to assist with Deploying, Updating and Configuring HPC clusters System Monitoring with tools like Ganglia to monitor operations of a large pool of servers

6 High-Performance Computing Up-close / 05 WISH LIST OF THE FUTURE-DEFINED DATA CENTRE: Lenovo moves beyond legacy thinking to implement the best proven technologies and enable the future-defined datacenter, so you re prepared for tomorrow s opportunities. Simple Addition of storage and GPU s Faster Computational Fluid Dynamics vs. 44%previous generation Easy expandability from small clusters to large grids, with a scalable and simple platform Powerful less racks per 80%solution HPC capabilities for workloads in analytics, scientific, modeling and big data the density of rack servers 2X1U fewer fans and 75% fewer power supplies than 1U servers 90%rack SERVES WORKLOAD RANGES: HPC Big Data and Analytics Financial & Scientific Modeling Up to 168 CPUs and 84TB of memory in an industry standard 42U rack Research Enterprise Apps Achieve extreme acceleration with GPUs, using available expansion node As compared to a a traditional 1U server GPU tray GA in Nov 2017

7 High-Performance Computing Up-close / 06 6 ADVANTAGES OF THE LENOVO HPC ECOSYSTEM: With its HPC solutions, Lenovo helps the enterprise meet the demands of the future, realize faster time to value, fuel innovation and accelerate results. Its eco-system helps before and after deployment, in achieving your objectives. Some advantages of this include: 1 Allows for GPU acceleration 5 Reduce Datacenter Complexity Support for acceleration via nvidia Tesla GPUs or Intel Lenovo Scalable Infrastructure (LeSI) is a framework for Xeon Phi x86 co-processors allows even the most development, configuration, build, delivery and support demanding workloads that need massive of integrated data center solutions. parallel-threading to be processed cost-effectively. 2 Ultra Fast 6 Lenovo HPC software stack Lenovo ThinkSystem Networking enables 40 Gbps Leverages Open Source components, besides Ethernet, or even 100 Gbps with Mellanox InfiniBand. partnerships with vendors to provide Best in-class HPC Cluster Solutions and optimize customer workloads. 3 High-performance Scalable Storage 7 Energy Efficiency The Lenovo DSS (Distributed Storage Solution) for The Water Cool Technology (WCT) system is an IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) prevents data loss innovation that optimizes data center density, and and offers a high-performance, scalable leads to lower TCO with savings of up to 40% on building-block approach to HPC storage needs. power and cooling costs. 4 White Glove Experience Lenovo integrates the systems, software and services, and offers a single point of support to deliver a cohesive experience to the enterprise.

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