Scott Houston, CEO and Founder GreenButton and Stephen Spector, Dell Cloud Evanelist present the new GreenButton Cloud Fabric application bursting solution
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Game Changer HPC in the Cloud for everyone Scott Houston CEO & Founder, GreenButton Stephen Spector Cloud Evangelist, Dell CloudExpo West 2012
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1. Game ChangerHPC in the Cloud for everyone Scott Houston CEO
& Founder, GreenButton Stephen Spector Cloud Evangelist, Dell
CloudExpo West 2012
2. Imagine being able to create the next Avatar movie from your
home computer2
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4. So what does it take to Purchase render a high resolution 20
x Dual Quad Pro servers a short movie or advert Storage and
switches Software licenses 5 Minute animation = Total Cost =
$100,000 7200 frames @ 10 minutes per frame OR = 1200 hours
Renderman on Demand x 5 takes = 6000 hoursOn a Quad Core that is 2
Months !!! Cost: $4200
5. New Business Model for ISVs Pixar GreenButton Cloud
Computing ProvidersPartner with GreenButton New Revenue stream
Pay-as-you go licenses $ $ Product differentiator New markets $ ISV
Enables the app on the cloud using SDK. Services manage user jobs
and billing. Runs Ease of use deployments. Embedded UI GreenButton
engines and Data and job services run on the cloud. management
Provider gains vertical Price and time SLAs solutions Enterprise
cloud solution for regular workloads Customers 5
6. Early cloud adopters are within five major verticals
Manufacturing Oil & Gas Bio-tech Financial Services Digital
Media GreenButton Limited 6
7. Imagine beingable to compete the largest companies in your
sector
8. Whats needed? Fat pipes Infiniband Fast access to disk 128Gb
RAM or more? Shared storage system Scalable databasesTraditional
HPC Infrastructure
9. Thats coming. but bigger challenges need to be addressed Job
based SLAs Multi-cloud support Data transferability Encryption at
rest Data anonymity Avoid cloud lock-in