Technical computing (high-performance computing) used to be the domain of specialists using expensive, proprietary equipment. Today, technical computing is going mainstream, becoming the absolutely irreplaceable competitive tool for research scientists and businesses alike. Here's a look at Dell’s pioneering role in the evolution of technical computing, with a focus on the key industry trends and technologies that will bring the next generation of tools and functionality to research and development organizations around the world.

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High Performance Computing:
Faster, better answers to more, bigger problems
Jimmy D. Pike, VP / Senior Fellow Chief Architect, Enterprise Solutions Group
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2. What is High Performance Computing (HPC)?
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•Simply put: It enables you to solve bigger problems, faster, with better answers
•How? Integrating many processors, memories, storage devices to act as one powerful system
•Key: Efficient, scalable integration through HPC networking, software & expertise
Dell is building
some of the most powerful HPC systems in the world

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Why is HPC necessary?
Computer technology gets faster and better
•Processors are getting more powerful (Moore’s Law)
•Memory speeds and capacities are increasing, though not as fast
•Disk speeds and capacity are also increasing
HOWEVER:
•Big simulation problems are much bigger than any standard server can compute
•Big Data is too large for any standard server to hold, much less extract insight quickly

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Three myths about High Performance Computing
It’s not for Big Data
It’s not for the Cloud or It’s not needed in the Cloud
It’s just for researchers, geeks and eggheads
FALSE
Finding information in (truly) big data requires analytics, and that means having lots of processing as well as memory and storage
FALSE
Cloud computing can and will embrace HPC as HPC usage in industry continues to grow—and it’s started
FALSE
HPC is widely used in oil & gas, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, finance & many other industry areas— and growing

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Why HPC is hard to get right? Integration & scaling
Key challenge: Make many systems look and work like ONE large, powerful system
Technology requirements: Networking and software that enabling seamless scaling
Other challenges: Cost, power and reliability

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Technology restraints push the need for HPC
Processor limitations
Memory density
Storage bandwidth and density
Aggregation through parallelism

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BIG computing
•Parallel processing for running advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly
•All systems that are used for highly computational or data-intensive tasks
Large groups of remote servers that are networked to allow the centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources
Any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using traditional data processing applications
Cloud
Big data
HPC

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Solving BIG problems fast and accurately
Modeling and simulation
Big data and analytics
HPC research in the cloud

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The world is full of BIG compute & big data problems
Weather
research
Oil & gas, seismic sampling
Particle Physics – Higgs Boson particle
Healthcare/ Life Sciences
University research
Mechanical engineering
Creative arts
Cancer research

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Dell’s approach to HPC Open, flexible & reliable solutions that solve your problems while providing choice & simplicity
From this
To this
Collaborative, flexible & simplified

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Three examples of Dell HPC Solutions in action
Stampede
Wrangler
Comet
Embracing the big problems, including big data

12. Where Dell has made a difference?
•Increased hardware integration
•Focused software development
•Advanced networking technology
TGen's genomic analysis pipeline dropped from 7-8 days to less than 1 day
Dell Genomic Data Analysis Platform
faster peak read performance & <74% peak write performance improvement over previous generation
Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (HSS 5.5)
George Washington University goes from zero to full HPC cluster
Dell HPC Services
800% faster
2 weeks
59% faster
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Dell’s vision for HPC
Power to Do More
Demands leadership in HPC
Big data
Solutions must include big data as well as Big compute and simulations
HPC is required HPC is the key to big compute and big data problems
Parallelism
Scalable parallelism is the key to HPC —
Embrace it
Integration
The key to growth is integrating systems into HPC that scale
Providing FASTER, BETTER solutions to MORE, BIGGER problems
Dell delivers essential building blocks to take HPC anywhere:
•HPC systems, such as Wrangler and Stampede, provide the blueprint to build appliances such as the Dell Genomic Data Analytics Platform, and enable massively scaled Cloud computing (Comet).

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Let’s get started
Engage with experts at the Solution Showcase
See solutions in action in the showcase
Schedule
•Further discussion with your Dell team

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