Platform Solutions for CAD/CAE 11/6/2008 1

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1 Platform Solutions for CAD/CAE 11/6/2008 1

2 Who We Are - Platform Computing The world s largest, most established provider of grid computing solutions Over 2000 customers in many vertical markets Electronics, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Life Sciences, Oil & Gas, Government, Universities & Research, Telco Recognized leader and pioneer in grid computing 15 years in grid Global offices, resellers and partners Ongoing innovation in new product development & open standards 24x7 Worldwide service, support, and consulting Winner of Gartner s Cool Vendor, 2006 Platform Computing awarded Cool Vendor in IT Operations Mgmt, 2006 Platform Computing Inc. 2

3 Faster Apps, Higher Asset Utilization When we grid enable services or applications, applications run more quickly, asset utilization is higher and extreme reliability comes for free USER A USER B USER C USER D Virtualized view of compute, network and storage resources Platform LSF 3

4 Faster Apps, Higher Asset Utilization By scheduling workloads intelligently according to policy, Platform HPC Management Software reduces application run-times while simultaneously optimizing resource use. Virtualized view of compute, network and storage resources Platform LSF 4

5 ROI for CAE Tool Optimization Dramatically boost user productivity by optimizing use of computing resources Complete projects sooner with higher quality results Significant capital expenditure deferral by using idle CPU cycles Number of simulations Number of verifications Number of analyses P R O D U C T I V I T Y With Platform LSF Platform LSF Time to Market Actual savings in: - time and money, - time to market - productivity Without Platform LSF 5

6 Why Platform LSF? Dramatic performance improvements Maximizes capability and capacity Increases the productivity of systems, software and people A fundamental infrastructure for scalability and manageability Reduces time to market & improves quality Reduce development & deployment costs Improved service quality, reliability & resiliency Flex resource use with business demand Maximize ROI on assets A simple equation: Superior Technology + Superior Expertise = Business Advantage

7 Platform LSF: Technically Superior The Clear Performance Leader 5,000 dual-cpu, dual-core hosts per cluster Sustain 20 job/query submissions per second Supports peak 100/sec Supports 10 million completed jobs per day Support for 500K concurrent active jobs Fast re-config and failover Support for 8,192 way parallel jobs New session scheduling paradigms for breakthrough levels of grid scheduling performance Platform LSF 7

8 The ROI of License Optimization A CAE software license may cost up to $50,000/year If you have 10 licenses total cost = $500,000 per year If you re only using them 50% of the time you are wasting $250,000 per year If we can help you increase utilization to 90%... you improve your return by $200,000/year. Not bad! Platform LSF License Scheduler 8

9 Application License Optimization Share application licenses according to policy Ensure licenses are allocated to critical projects Workloads pend while awaiting license resources Establish cross-functional license sharing policies Enforce license ownership with optional pre-emption Support for WAN-able licenses Tightly integrated with FlexNet Manager Optimize the efficiency of license distribution to compress work schedules, reduce expense and ensure compliance Use Platform LSF for sophisticated analysis correlating license feature use with users, projects and design centers Platform LSF License Scheduler 9

10 Partnership Ecosystem Integrations with over 50 CAE software products OEM or Reseller agreements with all major HPC hardware or OS vendors Partnerships with major global system integrators 10

11 Industrial Manufacturing Case Study 11/6/

12 A Decade of Evolution - GE Platform LSF MultiCluster Computing Infrastructure CAE jobs from 10 geographic locations and 16 simulation applications submitted through a common queue Canada NA Engrg. Workload balanced among several Detroit-based clusters India Warren HPC Australia Brazil Mexico GM Research Platform LSF Platform LSF MultiCluster Powertrain Milford HPC 12 Clusters / cpus Korea

13 General Electric Balance Usage Requirements GE engaged in: record spending on new products, compute intensive simulation, design of experiments Need for HPC in key disciplines: turbo-machinery aero design, heat transfer, aero mechanics, combustion stress & life Significant challenges: Increasingly global engineering, distributed workforce, regulatory compliance, need to build it where we sell it Platform LSF has enabled DoE runs where users submit 100+ jobs at once Multi-clustering reduces load on the WAN relative to a single large cluster Fairshare balances usage between parallel jobs (80% of total load) and serial jobs Engineers no longer have to shop for clusters across global Platform LSF Platform LSF MultiCluster David Topp, GE, Platform Grid Conference, Sept

14 Why Customers Choose Platform 2000 Proven customers Production proven at scale. Some use over 10,000 cores in a single cluster Platform LSF simply requires less work to operate Clear superiority in reporting & management tools True open heterogeneity across UNIX, Linux and Windows Solid technical roadmap (low risk!) A breadth of layered & complementary solutions process flows, real-time monitoring, provisioning, analytics, license scheduling etc. Common needs and uses-cases baked in to the product Superior product documentation & technical training Stellar product support backed by the world s largest global engineering team 100% focused on grid computing Platform helps you optimize more than just your computing, storage & software assets we help you optimize your business! 14

15 Thank you