Windows HPC Server 2008 and Productivity Overview.ppt

Windows HPC Server 2008 Presented by Frank Chism Frank.Chism@M Windows and Condor:Co-Existence and Interoperation Agenda Condor Currently Shipping Version 7.2.2 Windows currently getting ready to ship Version 7 Windows HPC Server 2008 Currently shipping Version 2 Number of Microsoft employees in this room 2 7.2.2: Condor gets there first! Condor team is made up of “talented and enthusiastic developers” Windows HPC is made up of “enthusiastic and talented developers plus a cast of thousands” Condor development is driven by what users want Windows HPC is driven by what users want Weird Coincidences Complete, integrated platform for computational clustering Built on top the proven Windows Server 2008 platform Integrated development environment Windows HPC Server 2008 High throughput computing Lots and lots of batch jobs as small as a single core This is clearly an overlap with Condor We only support use of dedicated batch servers Condor can scavenge unused cycles from just about anywhere High performance parallel jobs Primarily third party and site generated MPI applications Some overlap with Condor but our focus is communication intensive MPI jobs SOA – Service Oriented Architecture Establish a broker and some service nodes Have clients submit transactions directly to the service nodes Thousands of transactions per second per client Designed to serve three needs This slide deliberately left blank High Throughput Computing Priorities Comparable with hardware-optimized MPI stacks Focus on MPI-Only Solution for version 2 Verbs-based design for close fit with native, high-perf networking interfaces Coordinated w/ Win Networking team’s long-term plans Implementation MS-MPIv2 capable of 4 networking paths: Shared Memory  between processors on a motherboard TCP/IP Stack (“normal” Ethernet) Winsock Direct (and SDP)  for sockets-based RDMA New RDMA networking interface HPC team partners with networking IHVs to develop/distribute drivers for this new int