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Mo n d a y, N o ve m b e r 1 8 , 2 0 1 3 Su p e r C o m p u te r Sh o w D a ily FIFTEEN INVITED SPEAKERS TAKE THE PODIUM AT SC13 Fifteen speakers are set to share their perspectives with the supercomputing community as part of the invited talks program at SC13. These talks provide a long-term perspective and put multiple Adaptive Computing (Cont'd. from p. 1) RC: Adaptive Computing enables large enterprises in oil and gas, financial, manufacturing, research and government to perform simulations and analyze big data faster, more accurately and most cost effectively. Moab manages and schedules all available datacenter resources including HPC, cloud and big data, as one, turning the logjam into an orderly workflow that greatly increases throughput and productivity. Because Moab oversees priorities, resource requirements, SLAs and more, it can adapt to business priorities, delivering the invaluable insights the enterprise needs to make game-changing, data-driven decisions. SCSD: What sets Adaptive apart and allows you to process intensive simulations and big data analysis better than your competition? SGI (Cont'd. from p. 1) company in the past year? JT: The broadening focus on Big Data and need for our expertise. SGI has been a driving force in high-performance computing for nearly two decades, and has built several of the world's fastest supercomputers. What surprises many is that SGI is also a significant global storage provider, shipping more than 600PBs annually, and has helped customers manage some of the world's largest data environments costefficiently for many years as well. While there is much hype in the market, the reality is Big Data is revolutionizing industries. We are at an early stage as business and government agencies are just beginning to understand how. SGI's heritage in HPC and high-volume storage is helping customers accelerate this understanding and unlock value within Big Data to achieve business breakthroughs. Clustered Systems (Cont'd. from p. 4) code compilation. Saying it's a software defined system makes it sound easy, but it takes a tightly integrated and flexible hardware platform to provide the Super Node foundation. Clustered Systems ExaBlade is such a platform. The base unit of the ExaBlade is a five chassis blade rack inclusive of a power distribution and cooling. With a minimum of 100kW power, scalable to twice that, quiet two phase cooling, and PUEs approaching 1, it simply eliminates power, power densiAberdeen (Cont'd. from p. 4) all SSD array. As a result, Aberdeen is delivering this high performance along with affordability and our industry leading five year warranty to back up the quality. research insights into broader context. This year's speakers will address the ways in which HPC and supercomputing are shaping modern scientific and engineering discovery, and the RC: Adaptive Computing is a pioneer in private/hybrid cloud, technical computing and large-scale scheduling, holding 30-plus patents with more than 20 more pending. We are one of the few companies with extensive experience in all three areas – HPC, Cloud and Big Data. Adaptive manages many of the world's largest private/hybrid cloud and technical computing environments with Moab, its award-winning optimization and scheduling software. Moab's recent recognitions include the Gartner Cool Vendor, HPCWire's Reader's Choice and the Red Herring 100. Adaptive has more than 300 global customers that make the world a better place by developing cancer treatments, helping first responders during natural disasters, predicting the weather, discovering the origins of the universe, lowering energy prices and emissions and so much more. All of this would not be possible without a product like Moab. SCSD: What do you anticipate to be your greatest challenge in the year ahead? JT: Awareness in the commercial enterprise. SGI solutions are utilized to fulfill highly data intensive application needs in petascale environments spanning federal government, defense and strategic systems, physical and life sciences, manufacturing design, financial services and more. However, these applications generally fall outside the mainstream enterprise so many of the advantages we bring, from solution design and power up and go deployment, to cost-savings and world-class support, are less well known. With the challenge of Big Data reaching beyond historically massive data environments to mainstream IT, new solutions are needed. We open a lot of eyes when SGI solutions are first introduced. SCSD: Are you introducing any new ty and cooling as limitations. The front of each of the five independent chassis comprises 16 compute/storage blades and a PDU blade. Each chassis can be configured as a Super Node or the entire rack can be combined into one larger Super Node. These front blades are interconnected by four rear networking blades in each chassis. These provide a redundant GbE management network and a redundant PCIe interconnect between all blades and other chassis. All the memory on all the compute blades is shared via the PCIe network. All the storage on the Now the challenge is to push this performance out of the box. There are two 10GBASE-T ports in the system as default, and 6 PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots available for that purpose. We performed our tests with default iSCSI function on our NAS ways in which HPC is shaping the relationships among nations. Some of the speakers are: 2011 Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, who will explain how integrating big data led to the discovery of the acceleration of the universe's expansion; 2010 National Medal of Science Winner, Warren Washington, who will review challenges facing users of the SCSD: What are the new products and technologies you've recently announced? RC: Just a few weeks ago, we announced five newly awarded patents for our intelligent power management that enable Moab to significantly increase energy efficiency. The patent concepts include: calendar-based power capping, which helps navigate power quotas by identifying optimal times to operate data-intensive simulations; on-demand power management, which optimizes workload by properly allocating resources and powering off servers as needed; and predictive placement, which employs power-aware policies to manage energy consumption within data centers more evenly and save on cooling costs Adaptive will announce the Moab Task Manager at SC13, which greatly increases throughput on short/small products? JT: Yes. In addition to continuing innovation of our market leading super computer, SGI ICE X, and unparalleled shared memory system, SGI UV, we are introducing three new solutions: SGI InfiniteData Cluster, delivering breakthrough compute and storage density that scales seamlessly from a small number of cluster nodes to several thousand; SGI ObjectStore, delivering innovative object-based storage; and new intelligent management of active archives for our SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway. These new solutions enable organizations to perform Big Data analytics with faster and greater insight, achieve the extreme capacity and scale needed for Big Data storage, and manage storage investments more cost effectively. SCSD: What distinguishes your products from the competition? disk blades may be integrated into a larger parallel file system that may encompass the Super Node or the complete HPC system. The Super Node can be accessed via front connectors on the compute blades or by virtual I/O through the interconnecting PCIe network to an external interface box. There are no placement limitations as every slot of every chassis is identical. The user need only specify the type and number of required blades to satisfy the Super Node performance requirements. Currently, Clustered Systems offers and utilized default IPMI KVM capability to monitor the results when we were away. AberNAS N21 all SSD NAS, 320K IOPS 4K Random Reads sustained with a five year warranty at an affordable price. Onboard dual 10GbE ports. 6 PCI-E 3.0 17 Community Earth System Model for climate and Earth system simulations; Northwestern University's Alok N. Choudhary, who will address the question, "What are the challenges and opportunities for extreme scale systems to be an effective platform?"; and The University of California at Berkeley's Vern Paxson, who will examine scaling issues. jobs. Moab Task Manager allows 100x faster throughput, launches 10 jobs per node per second and reduces latency. Stay tuned for more details in the announcement released first thing tomorrow morning. In booth 3113, we are demoing our Moab Task Manager along with many of our other products: Moab HPC Suite Enterprise and Remote Visualization Editions; Adaptive Workload Optimization Pack with Moab HPC Suite, Intel Messaging Passing Interface Library and HP Insight Cluster Management Utility Connector; and Topology Aware Scheduling for 3-D Torus Networks. During SC13, visit Adaptive Computing at booth 3113. For more information, visit www.adaptivecomputing.com, call 801-717-3700 or email solutions@ adaptivecomputing.com. JT: SGI achieves competitive differentiation through compute and storage solutions built with innovative architectural advantages utilizing industry standard components and tight integration. By designing for performance, power, density and scalability, optimizing interconnections between layers and engineering to reduce overhead and accelerate deployment, SGI solutions deliver industry leading speed, scale and efficiency. SCSD: How can our readers find out more about your company? JT: Please stop by the SGI booth 2709, as we have many solution experts on hand, as well as product demonstrations, white papers and more. Please also visit us at www.sgi.com. Visit SGI at booth 2709 during SC13. For more information, visit www.sgi.com, call 800-800-7441 or email nehrman@sgi.com. dual two socket Intel S2600JF server blades and PCIe switch blades. Coming soon are a full range of complementary products including dual processorcoprocessor blades, disk storage blades, flash memory storage blades, data base (large memory) blades and high-performance network blades with direct IB and 10GbE connectivity. During SC13, visit Clustered Systems Company, Inc. at booth 742. For more information, visit www.clusteredsystems.com, call 408-327-8100 or email phil@clusteredsystems.com. x8 available expansion slots. Visit Aberdeen during SC13 at booth 1738. For more information, visit www.aberdeeninc.com, call 800-500-9526 or email salesinfo@aberdeeninc.com