HPC Platform Futures

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HPC Platform Futures

• John Vert
• HPC Development Manager
• Microsoft Corporation

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Multicore is Mainstream

• Abundant hardware resources change some of the
  traditional OS tradeoffs
• New programming models and tools
• Platform and tools need to be composable and
  scalable from desktop to server to cluster to
  cloud

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HPC As A Service

• Opportunities for significant improvements in
  management facilities costs
• Value-add service, not just raw CPU cycles
• Data islands where you can send your computation

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Virtualization

• Software infrastructure agility
• Legacy code migration
• Transparent checkpoint
• Preemption migration

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