Building HPC Cloud at DuPont: Architecture and Best Practices

July 18, 2012
11:30 am – 12:15 pm EDT

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Symposium Course Description: DuPont is building a dynamic, multi-disciplined R&D computing platform using a hybrid private cloud-cluster infrastructure model. This new model allows the DuPont computing group to save administrative cost, reduce capital investments, simplify and consolidate the overall infrastructure while simultaneously meeting client requirements for a highly dynamic, diverse environment. In this session, we will review the requirements, challenges and architectural decisions made in the implementation of this computing platform at DuPont. We will also hear from IBM Platform Computing about some of the technologies that can enable such an environment.

Learning Objective Bullet Points

Learn how leading organizations are leveraging private cloud solutions to increase computing ROI
Learn how DuPont implemented a hybrid private cloud cluster solution and improved their computing center capabilities
Learn about the state of the art technologies available to implement such environments

Who Should Attend:

Directors/Managers in IT/Cloud computing infrastructure
High Performance Computing infrastructure architects
Research scientists
IT Infrastructure for Life Sciences (Interest Area)

Program Agenda:

Introductions by Moderator
DuPont Private Cloud Use Case (25 minutes)
IBM Platform LSF and IBM Platform Cluster Manager (15 minutes)
Q&A (5 minutes)

Hai Zhu - Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University, a Master of Science Degree from Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Manager, Computational Sciences & Applied Technologies
Information & Computing Technologies - DuPont
Hai.zhu@usa.dupont.com

Bio
Hai Zhu joined Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc, a DuPont Company in 2000 as a bioinformatics engineer/scientist focusing on crop genetics and informatics research. In 2006, he became the leader of the High Performance Computing team in Information & Computing Technologies Division in DuPont Central Research & Development. Since then, Hai’s responsibilities have progressively expanded to a variety of operational and managerial assignments. In 2010, he was appointed to his current role to lead the scientific computing infrastructure and operation to support DuPont global research and development.

Hai Zhu is trained in biochemistry and bioinformatics with expertise in computing modeling, large scale parallelization & information analysis. Originally from China, Hai Zhu holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Texas A&M University in Biochemistry, a Master of Science Degree from Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Jeff Karmiol - Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sr. Product Manager
HPC Cloud and Analytics - IBM Platform Computing
jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com

Bio
Jeff Karmiol rejoined Platform Computing in 2011 as a Sr. Product Manager focusing on HPC/Technical Computing Cloud solutions. Previous to rejoining Platform Jeff held roles of responsibility building and delivering technical computing solutions to enterprises. Jeff previously held a management role at Platform Computing focusing on delivering products. Jeff has been working in software companies for the past 21 years.