Introducing Nimbix Cloud Supercomputing

supercomputing made super human™

Introducing Nimbixsupercomputing made super human™

Leo Reiter, Chief Technology Officer

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About Nimbix

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• Founded in 2010• Headquartered in Dallas, TX• Big Compute Cloud Platform for:

• Big Data (High Performance Data Analysis)

• Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)• Media and Entertainment• Life Sciences/Bioinformatics• Oil & Gas


Featured Customers and Partners


Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)for Agricultural Research

Photorealistic real-time graphics rendering(e-commerce, etc.)

Big Data/HPDA (Marketing Analytics)


What Nimbix is All About• Turn-key cloud solutions that quickly solve the toughest

computing challenges:• Applications and workflows, not machines and instances• Affordable results, not just cheap core hours• Real world solutions, not benchmarks and “experiments”

• Nimbix aspires to be the company that unleashes global innovation by taking high performance computing out of its traditional settings and bringing it into the mainstream, much like the PC revolution did to the world of the mainframe.



Supercomputing made super human™Cloud-based

Elastic ScaleSelf Service

Bare-metal PerformancePatented “Reconfigurable Cloud Computing”Patent-pending containerized application technology

for HPC workflowsHeterogeneity

Accelerators, CPU Architectures, InterconnectsRight Tools for the JobMulti-step, multi-platform Workflows

Ease of Use, Time to Value



Diverse ApplicationsIntegrated StorageHeterogeneous Hardware

The Nimbix Cloud



JARVICE: Powering the Nimbix Cloud• Market’s First Cloud Platform purpose-built for HPC

applications• Self-service, multi-tenant supercomputer built and operated by

Nimbix• Patented Reconfigurable Cloud Computing

• 2 additional patents pending, including dynamic orchestration of containerized applications applied to HPC workflows

• Public, Hybrid, Private• SaaS and PaaS Delivery Models

• SaaS for end users• PaaS for developers to build end user applications



What has JARVICE been up to?


Engineering &Manufacturing

Big Data &Analytics

Media &Entertainment

Life Sciences Oil & Gas

Fluid Dynamics Structural and

Mechanical Simulation

Electromagnetic Simulation

Multiphysics

Marketing Analytics Data Science Machine Learning

Transcoding Real-time video

analysis Real-time

photorealistic rendering

Animation

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)

Genetic Alignment and Search

Seismic Processing Reverse Time

Migration (RTM) Fluid Dynamics


JARVICE Solution Overview


COMPUTE WORKLOADSCAE, Seismic Processing, Bioinformatics,

Transcoding, Rendering, etc.

HPC Cloud Platform

External Data NACC Files

APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTSNimbix Application Environment (NAE),

Develop, Test, Snapshot, Repeat

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Build, Compute, Visualize Workflow


PreprocessingDevelopmentCustomization…

ComputationTransformationSimulation…

PostprocessingVisualization…


JARVICE Features• Self-service, pay per use

• Hourly or subscription• Baremetal processing• High performance, integrated storage• Supercomputing co-processors and accelerators:

• NVIDIA Kepler, Intel Xeon Phi, FPGA• FDR Infiniband• Both batch and interactive applications

• 3D capable with server-side rendering• Both web UI and API

• Point-and-click ease of use (desktop and mobile), or scriptable automation• Both SaaS and PaaS

• Developers and end users, as well as custom use cases



Nimbix Application Environment• Full CentOS or Ubuntu Linux Environment• Root Access• Generous Local Transient Storage• POSIX-compliant access to User Persistent Storage• Full Access to underlying Hardware:

• CPU Cores• RAM• Co-processors and Accelerators, if applicable• Infiniband, if applicable

• Image Management:• Snapshot to save changes to environment• Cancel to revert changes• Clone to create copy for new environment



Nimbix Application Environment Types

PaaS for Developers• Hadoop/Spark• Eclipse• RealityServer• OpenGL• OpenCL• CUDA• OpenMPI• Custom/other (Linux-based)

SaaS for End Users• CAE:

• ANSYS Multiphysics• CST• CD-Adapco• CAE Fidesys

• Bioinformatics:• PacBio (Pacific Biosciences)• BLAST

• Rendering:• Blender



…to 2015 and beyond



Learn more about Nimbix


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