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Council on Competitiveness
High Performance Computing Project
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Council Background
• Founded 1986 by John Young (CEO Hewlett-Packard)
• Non-profit, non-partisan
• Mission– Set a public policy action agenda that drives economic growth and
raises the standard of living for all Americans
• Membership– Only national organization whose membership is comprised
exclusively of CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders
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Changing Competitive Environment
• U.S. is facing more serious global competitive challenges than in the past
• We can no longer compete on traditional cost and quality terms
• The ability to create new value will determine competitive advantage
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High performance computing
is a key ingredient in America’s innovation capacity
High Performance Computing and Innovation
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High Performance Computing ProjectA program of the Council’s National Innovation Initiative
Objective: Stimulate and facilitate wider usage of HPC across the private sector to propel productivity, innovation and competitiveness
Approach• Determine whether the private sector is using HPC as
aggressively as it could and should– If not…why not: business & technical barriers
• Explore the role of public-private sector partnerships to address barriers
• Leverage government investment in HPC R&D, systems and expertise to advance industrial and national competitiveness
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Project Participants
• Private sector HPC users
• U.S. Government agencies and laboratories
• HPC manufacturers and software developers
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Advisory Committee
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Advisory Committee
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Advisory Committee
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INNOVATIONINNOVATION
Grand Challenges
Barriers Solutions
Case StudiesWorkshops
User Conferences
HPC UserSurveys
AdvisoryCommittee
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FINDINGS
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HPC Is Essential to Business Survival
Competitive Risk from not having access to HPC
3%
16%
34%
47%
Could exist and compete
Could not exist as a business
Could not compete on quality &testing issues
Could not compete on time to market& cost
Data from Council-sponsored survey conducted by IDC
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HPC Drives Business Competitiveness
• Reducing design costs through virtual prototyping
• Reducing physical tests for faster time to market
Image courtesy of Pratt & Whitney
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HPC Drives Business Competitiveness
• Breakthrough insights for manufacturers– Procter & Gamble uses
HPC to model production of Pringles® and Pampers®
Image courtesy of The Proctor & Gamble Company
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HPC Drives Business Competitiveness
• Shortened product development cycles– U.S. entertainment industry must compete with
foreign animation studios
that have much cheaper
wage rates
Image courtesy DreamWorks Animation SKG
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Companies are not Using HPC as Aggressively as Possible
– Lack of computational scientists (internal or external)
– Not enough people in the pipeline– Poor match between skills taught
and skills needed
• Education and Training Barriers
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Companies are not Using HPC as Aggressively as Possible
• Business Culture Barriers:– Is HPC an investment, or a cost? – What is the return on investment (ROI)?
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Companies are not Using HPC as Aggressively as Possible
• Technical Barriers– Legacy applications software inhibits usage– Codes are often not scalable for broader industrial
use– Software licensing costs are growing, becoming a
barrier for some sites
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HPC Independent Software Vendor (ISV) study
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HPC Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Study
• First of its kind
• Independent, extensive assessment of the landscape and market dynamics surrounding ISVs that serve HPC users.
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HPC Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Study
• Interviews Completed– 110 completed interviews (by application)– From 54 different suppliers/companies
• Notes– There are many small university codes that we did not focus on– Government ISV codes received second priority – We surveyed for codes that are used in the U.S. or worldwide. Codes
that are only used in their foreign country of origin (e.g., India, Japan) were not included in this study.
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HPC Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Study
• Primary Goals– Assess the ISV landscape for HPC– Identify ISVs’ readiness for petascale computing– Identify barriers to future development– Create an ISV directory
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HPC Independent Software Vendor (ISV) study
• Study captures information on:– Demographics; company profile; history of code– Scalability– Willingness to form partnerships and improve
code– Breakdowns by industry
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HPC Independent Software Vendor (ISV) study
ISV applications only exploit a fraction of the performance potential of today’s systems
In practice, 82% of applications are runat 32 CPUs or below.
About one in four applications
is single-CPU.
In practice, 82% of applications are runat 32 CPUs or below.
About one in four applications
is single-CPU.
Number of CPUs Count Percent1 19 24.4%
2-8 25 32.1%9-32 20 25.6%
33-128 9 11.5%129-1024 4 5.1%Unlimited 1 1.3%
Total: 78 100.0%
Typical single-job size - grouped
Data from Council-sponsored survey conducted by IDC
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HPC Independent Software Vendor (ISV) study
For many applications, the ISVs know how to improve scalability but have no plans to do so.
Already does, or in progress
26%
Yes, but noimmediate plans
60%
14%
No, not possible
We need to understand the motivations of this group.
We need to understand the motivations of this group.
Data from Council-sponsored survey conducted by IDC
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HPC Independent Software Vendor (ISV) study
Competitiveness Implications:Many companies have important computational
problems that they cannot solve
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• July 13th in Washington, DC
• Registration: hpcusersconference.com
HPC Users ConferenceAccelerating Innovation for Prosperity
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Software WorkshopThe Need for HPC Application Software Solutions
• July 14th in Washington, DC
• Registration– http://www.osc.edu
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Council Contacts
Suzy Tichenor, VP/HPC Project Director – 202-969-3398– [email protected]
Melyssa Fratkin, Policy Director, HPC– 202-969-3384– [email protected]
