MICROSOFT INNOVATION CENTER

Prof. Dr. Henrik Nordborg

Institute for Energy Technology

Microsoft Innovation Center

March 12, 2015

HPC, Azure, and Technical Computing

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Team – MIC Technical Computing & Multiphysics

Senior Scientists Master Students

Henrik NordborgPhD, Theo. Physis

Lukasz MiroslawPhD, Comp. Sci.

Mario MürmannMSc, Physics

Roman FuchsMSc, CSE

Marc Pfander

Rita Rüppel

Adrian Rohner

Simon Boller

Matthias Pasquon

Alain Schubiger

http://www.msic.ch/Angebot/Technical-Computing

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What we do

High-Performance Computing on Windows and Azure

PETSc for Windows SimplyHPC Numerical Simulations (ANSYS, COMSOL, MATLAB, OpenFOAM, …) Scientific Programming The UberCloud project

Machine Learning

Data analysis Optimization Internet of Things

Sustainable Computing

Cloud Computing is green ICT is necessary (e.g. Swisscom Energy Solutions, Smart Grid)

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Ongoing projects

Research

Simulations of electrical arcs PETSc for Windows and SimplyHPC Wind Power Building simulations

Planned events

VPE Symposium at the HSR (Rapperswil, April 22, 2015) Academic Strategy Briefing for Higher Education (Berne, May 12, 2015) NAFEMS World Congress, Paper on SimplyHPC and Azure, (San Diego,

June 21, 2015) MIC Event in Rapperswil (Rapperswil, June 26, 2015) Workshop: Computing Power as Commodity?

Workshop in Rapperswil, September 2015

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Research Project: Simulation of Electrical Arcs

Goal: Develop a Cloud-based algorithm for a challening problem of physics and engineering

Microsoft Azure Research Award in 2014 Contact: Kenji Takeda (Microsoft Research)

Ongoing collaborations

Streamer International (CTI Project) Panasonic Fraunhofer SCAI WEG

In preparation

Imperial College Eaton Corporation Rockwell Fraunhofer ITWM

Henrik Nordborg, MICTC Rapperswil

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Research: Windkraft @ HSR

Simulation-based development of a 1MW vertical axis wind turbine (CTI Project with Bogga Wind Power)

Flow simulations for possible locations in the Swiss alps (in preparation)

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The UberCloud (www.theubercloud.com)

The UberCloud: Making Technical Computing available in the Cloud

UberCloud Community: +2500 companies and

individuals: +60 cloud providers, +80 software providers, several hundred consulting

firms and individual experts. Currently connecting The

UberCloud to Microsoft Azure

www.ubercloud.com

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Software: PETSc and SimplyHPC

PETSc for Windows: Parallel computing directly in Visual Studio

SimpleHPC: Submitting parallel jobs directly to Microsoft Azure (available on GitHub)

http://www.msic.ch/Software

Research: Thermal Simulations of Buildings

Boltzmann: New approach to flow simulations: Massively parallel Always convergence Correct turbulence

http://www.lav.ethz.ch/research/projects/Flyer-SSC.pdf

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Organizations

NAFEMS – International Association of the Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation Community

Members of two working groups

Multiphysics Working Group HPC Working Group

NAFEMS World Congress

Published a paper on SimplyHPC and HPC in the Cloud

Session on HPC in the Cloud

Swiss VPE – Virtuelle Produktentwicklung

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Outlook: ICT is necessary to cope with future challenges

We are here to tell you a secret that we feel needs to be told: there is a special weapon in the fight against climate change. Information and communications technology (ICT) solutions are transforming the way we do business, run our cities, spend our leisure time, access information and keep in touch with friends and family -- but they also play an increasingly pivotal role in addressing climate change and building more resilient communities.

ICT solutions can help industries across our economies reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 16.5%, yield a total of 1.9 trillion USD in energy savings, and create 29.5 million jobs.They can enable both a reduction in consumption and a more efficient use of resources. By definition, this brings savings for both individual consumers and for businesses.

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Workshop: Computing in the Cloud

The Cloud will revolutionize the use of IT in industry

Technical and scientific computing will change completely

Computing power will always be available Easy deployment of complex simulation tools (e.g. Azure Machine Learning)

No expensive on premise clusters

computing power becomes a commodity

Convergence of commercial and academic computing

The price - performance ratio will be the only criterion Companies and universities will use the same Cloud

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Workshop: Format and target audience

Date: September 2015, afternoon + evening

100-150 participants Free of charge

Speakers:

Microsoft Academia (CERN, CSCS, ETH) The UberCloud (Wolgang Gentzsch) Industry (ALSTOM, ABB) or software vendor (ANSYS, COMSOL)

Discussion and brainstorming

Hands-on demonstrations and drinks

Audience:

Simulation managers and experts IT managers from major companies and universities Researchers

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Outlook: ABB setzt auf Office 365 und Yammer

Der Industriekonzern ABB rollt weltweit Office 365 und Yammer aus. Diverse bestehende Kommunikationslösungen werden durch Produkte aus der Microsoft-Cloud abgelöst. » Von Mark Schröder , 10.04.2013 14:21

http://www.computerworld.ch/businesspraxis/case-studies/artikel/abb-setzt-auf-office-365-und-yammer-63057/

Konkrete Einsparungen sollen bei den Reisekosten realisiert werden. Microsoft hat errechnet, dass bei einer Unternehmung von der Grösse ABBs die Online-Zusammenarbeit das Reisebudget um 15 bis 20 Prozent senken kann.

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Outlook: Industry needs more ICT