Enterprise HPC & Cloud Computing for Engineering Simulation Barbara Hutchings Director, Strategic Partnerships ANSYS, Inc.
Historical Perspective Evolution of Computing for Simulation Pendulum swing: Centralized to distributed to centralized Remote to local to remote Consistent trends: Scale up (cores/processors, workloads) Globalization / collaboration IT complexity (applications/users) Mainframes Client/Server Workstation/PCs Local Clusters Shared HPC Grid Cloud, Mobile 1990 2000 2010
Rising Role of IT Focus on Innovation and Efficiency Looking ahead, executives expect IT to create new platforms to support innovation and growth the highest current priorities for IT: improving the effectiveness and efficiency of business processes and reducing IT costs. Source: A rising role for IT: McKinsey Global Survey Results, McKinsey Quarterly, December 2011
Current Trends IT Environment for Engineering Simulation Scale-up of high performance computing new/ emerging architectures more and bigger workloads Efficient centralized infrastructure (or cloud) with effective remote access Collaboration hubs with secure and scalable data access Support for mobile platforms
Current Trends / ANSYS Strategy Spectrum of Private, Hosted and Public Cloud Software & User Environment: Seamless usability and remote access Hardware: Private cloud or hosted HPC (w/ data security ) later Business: Evolution / Add flexibility of usage to traditional license model Graphic courtesy of IBM
ANSYS Cloud & HPC Product Strategy Optimizing Remote Simulation Workflow Local computing infrastructure for simulation is transitioning to centralized HPC resources, shared by a globally distributed workforce ANSYS Customer Initiatives Datacenter Consolidation Private / Public Cloud Globally Connected R&D IP Protection & Leverage Virtual Desktop Enabling Simulation Practices Data Management Data remains in the datacenter Eliminate file transfer bottlenecks Data centralization for collaboration Mobility and Remote Access Beyond batch processing! Centralized Flexible Licensing HPC Users
ANSYS High-Performance Computing Roadmap for Remote/Mobile Access Users (Remote/Mobile) Browser access Remote Display ANSYS EKM Web/Mobile UI Batch jobs Interactive jobs Enterprise datacenter or cloud Compute cluster Work in Progress data Graphics server Data Management Simulation Job Management Mobility & Remote Access Data/Process Management Search & Retrieval Light Weight Visualization Security & Access Controls PLM Integration Open - Interface to Schedulers & Resource Managers Job Management Job Controls Remote Execution Interactive remote visualization Mobile monitoring - Detach/Attach Today @ R15.0 @ R15.0
ANSYS on HPC Cloud Partner-Enabled Solutions Customer Facility Enable HPC Outsourcing Burst or steady-state extension of in-house capacity Leverage partnerships with HPC Cloud Partners Open vendor-neutral strategy; expert services On-Premise license On-Premise Data Browser access Cloud Portal Secure account access; data management; job management WIP Data Batch jobs Interactive jobs Thin client access Compute cluster Graphics servers Partner built, partner owned and operated. Cloud License SW sold and supported by ANSYS Traditional Lease or Perpetual and (Coming) Hourly Use
Cloud Hosting ANSYS Cloud Partner Program
ANSYS Cloud Partners Customer Experience Gompute HPC Cloud HPC Cloud for Technical Computing User environment (GomputeXplorer) HPC job submission Remote visualization (working well up to 230ms latency links) Work remotely, with same GUI as local desktop Scale up your simulations to 1000 s of cores, or run multiple jobs at same time Accounting control with jobs, credits and license usage
ANSYS Cloud Partners Customer Experience CADFEM Engineering Cloud Login Start from Start your your ANSYS desktop local in ANSYS Cloud in Cloud Remote Display HPC Job Submission Internet Secure VPN Connection Customers use cloud in exactly the same manner as their own equipment Combined license usage: on premise + cloud-based Portal = pure Login Keep it simple
ANSYS IT Industry Partnerships HPC Scale-Up and Performance Partnerships with IT industry leaders, ensuring optimized HPC performance, a roadmap to the future, and wrap-around support ANSYS and Intel 60% speed-up on Sandy Bridge/ Ivybridge; R&D focused on Intel s Many Integrated Core (Xeon Phi) ANSYS and NVIDIA GPU acceleration of ANSYS Mechanical; very active R&D engagement with NVIDIA across full portfolio ANSYS and Cray Support for extreme scalability of ANSYS CFD, up to 1000 s of cores ANSYS HPC performance optimizes the utilization of licenses, hardware, and people
HPC Scaleup for Product Development Coupled Analysis & Robust Design Geometry N HPC n Pre- Processing Mesh Fluids Loads Electronic Mechanical Workflow & data transfer Electro- Magnetic Explicit Thermal Post- Processing Analysis Optimis. Robust Design
ANSYS HPC and Cloud Strategy Driving Automotive Product Development Data management Parallel meshing Parallel solvers Job management Parallel postprocessing Image courtesy of CADFEM GmbH Remote & mobile access Parallel data transfer Cloud solutions Licensing Courtesy of Volkswagen AG