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High Productivity Computing Windows HPC Server 2008 Why Microsoft in HPC? Current Issues HPC and IT data centers merging: isolated cluster management Developers can’t easily program for parallelism Difficult for users to access processing cores and data How can Microsoft help? Positioned to mainstream integration of application parallelism Efforts underway to enable parallelism broadly to the developer community Can expand the value of HPC by integrating productivity and management tools Microsoft Investments in HPC Comprehensive software portfolio: Client, Server, Management, Development, and Collaboration Dedicated teams focused on Cluster Computing Unified Parallel development through the Parallel Computing Initiative Partnerships with the Technical Computing Institutes 2008 Microsoft Investment in HPC $150M total investment in HPC in 2008. Platform Portfolio: Client: Windows Vista 64-bit (technical workstation) Server: Windows Compute Cluster Server Development Platform: Visual Studio IDE with Parallel Tools Management: Systems Center for HPC Collaboration/Workflow: Sharepoint and Windows Workflow Foundation Windows HPC Server 40 engineers on HPC server tools 40 incubation sales world-wide (sales+technical) 15 dedicated HPC marketing leads 55 half-time regional leads Parallel Computing Initiative 180 engineers focused on parallel development tools Technical Computing Institutes Microsoft Confidential HPC Technical Management Team Name and Background Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President Bill Laing, Vice President of Engineering Kyril Faenov, HPC General Manager Burton Smith, Technical Fellow Shawn Hansen, Director of HPC Marketing Dan Fay, Director Technical Institutes Dan Reed, Director of Microsoft Research Windows HPC Server 2008 Complete, integrated platform for computational clustering Built on top the proven Windows Server 2008 platform Integrated development environment Beta1 available from /hpc Windo