Transcript Channel Product Strategy

Platform Computing
Ken Hertzler
VP Product Management
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What We Market
HPC Market
HPC. Without Limits
Clouds
► Break out of your HPC walls, and go
without limits.
► Self-service HPC, like never before.
► Do HPC faster, and simpler.
Enterprise Market
Clouds. Beyond Virtualization
► Scale your applications without adding
more servers.
► Server Unification. More Consolidation.
► Faster Provisioning. Better Cost
Management.
Grids. The HPC Standard
Grids
► The solution of choice for over 2,000
global customers.
► Industry-leading workload management
solution
Scale-out Enterprise Applications
► The first scale-out server for enterprise
business application.
► Application performance & scalability
when you need it.
Clusters. Easy to Setup. Easy to Use.
Clusters
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► Build, deploy, manage and use clusters
simply and painlessly.
► From open-source to enterprise class.
► Increase uptime, and lower support
costs.
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What We Sell
Clouds
Grids
Clusters
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HPC Market
Enterprise Market
HPC. Flexible Resource Sharing
►Expand HPC beyond the internal grid
►Self-service HPC infrastructure sharing
►Desktop, DR, and IT resource
harvesting
►Adaptive clusters
Clouds. Creating Shared Infrastructures.
►Intelligently place application workloads
on a pooled heterogeneous infrastructure
►Automatically optimize the management of
application workloads
►Measure & report usage of resources
►Increase productivity with self-service
Grids. Distributed Resource Sharing.
►Engineering design
►Simulation
►Animation & rendering
►Test & development
►Experimentation
►Analysis & modeling
Clusters. Resource Sharing.
►Build clusters
►Deploy clusters
►Use clusters
►Manage clusters
Enterprise Application Scale-out Server
►Multi-application Workflow
►Financial risk analysis
►Analytics (data mining & CEP)
►ETL
►Data processing (batch)
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What We Build & Install
Product Line
Clouds
Solution Product Line
Platform ISF
Add-ons
Platform LSF
Grids
RTM
Process Manager
Application Center
Analytics
License Scheduler
Session Scheduler
MultiCluster
Adaptive Cluster
Add-ons
Platform Symphony
Clusters
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Multi-core Optimizer
Data-affinity
Adaptive Cluster
(MultiCluster)
Platform Cluster Manager
Platform MPI (HP & Scali)
Platform Solutions for HPC
SAS Grid Manager
Platform Solutions for Financial
Services
Sybase RAP
Algorithmics
Sophis
Murex
Platform HPC Workgroup Edition
Platform HPC Enterprise Edition
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CERN – Increased Efficiency
User A
Workload
Manager
User B
Workload
Manager
Environment
RHEL, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V for widely diverse set of
scientific applications on x86 commodity boxes
Challenge
Clusters could not flex or be re-provisioned creating
idle resources as users waited for their
environments to become available
Solution
User A
User B
Platform ISF to remove application resource silos
by re-provisioning nodes based on application
workload requirements
Platform LSF
Platform Adaptive Cluster
Benefits
 Deliver more services within a fixed budget;
performance doubled on many applications
 Lower costs due to improved utilization rates
 Reduced administration through automation
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Pharmaceutical –
Reduced Cost
Environment
Compute grids for the discovery and development
of new drug candidates
Pharma
Researcher
Pharma
Researcher
Platform LSF
Challenge
 Resource requirements vary greatly depending
on stage in drug development cycle
 Need to reduce infrastructure related costs
without impacting competitiveness or time to
market
Solution
Platform ISF to reduce management cost of existing
infrastructure and enable cloud-bursting to external
SP
Bind external SP resources to
local clusters during periods of
high demand
Benefits
 Lowered cost of infrastructure and management
 Risk of outsourcing minimized since some
infrastructure remains local
 Ability to “cloud-burst” to meet peak demand
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Financial –
Efficiency Improved / Reduced Cost
App 1
App 2
App N
Environment
100s Java & Analytic apps on 1000s servers
App
Server
App
Server
App
Server
Challenge
Siloed servers resulting in long provisioning
times, low resource utilization, and
expensive IT management cost
Solution
App 1
App 2
Self-Service Portal
App Server
Platform ISF
Virtual Servers
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App N
Self-service resource reservation, allocation
& application deployment, with automated
placement policies across shared resources
Benefits
 Application environments made available in
minutes; not days
 HA and guaranteed SLA support
 Lower cost
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THANK YOU
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