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Working Differently Working Differently with Parallel Workflowswith Parallel Workflows
Frank JensenFrank Jensen
SPEC* Workshop 2008SPEC* Workshop 200827 January 200827 January 2008
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Workstations – Accelerating Decisions
The Essential Technology Tool for Professional Creators
The Essential Technology Tool for Professional Creators
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Benchmarks
•A good benchmark P.R.R.S.S.– Portable– Relevant– Recognized– Simple– Scalable
•Every benchmark degrades in value over T.I.M.E.:– Technology (# of cranks to start a car)– Indicators no longer scalable (flops became GFlops)– Methodology may no longer be comprehensive (multitasking OS
vs. UNIX)– Environment changes usage models (Virus scans anyone?)
Front-End Front-End ApplicationApplicationFront-End Front-End
ApplicationApplicationBackground
Application(s)Background
Application(s)Separate
Test CasesSeparate
Test Cases
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2000 2008+
Perf
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Parallelism
2004
MULTI-CORE
FORECAST
SINGLE-CORE
Throughput
Scalability
An Industry Inflection PointAn Industry Inflection Point
YOU AREYOU AREHEREHERE
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Accelerating the Time to Decisionby Working Differently
<2006 Today
Serial Workflows Simultaneous Workflows
Single Task Mega Task
Simple Analysis Complex Analysis
Meet The Deadline “What if I try this?”
Iterate Faster
Innovate More
Design Simulate
Design Simulate
Design Simulate
Parallel Design Freedom
Design Simulate Design Simulate Design Simulate
Serial Design GridlockComputeCreate
Create, modify, and
simulate
SimulateSimulate
RenderRender
Design/Design/IterateIterate
Design/Design/IterateIterate
New Ways To Work New Ways To Work
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DCC Performance Example
Working Differently with Autodesk 3ds Max* Working Differently with Autodesk 3ds Max* interactive and Mental Ray* rendering iterationinteractive and Mental Ray* rendering iteration
Low
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Bette
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~ 4.4x increase in innovation
~ 4.4x increase in innovation
8-core workstation
~19 designs per day
Design
Design
~ 4 designs per day
2-core workstation
Design
Render
DesignRender
Render
Autodesk®Autodesk®
New Ways To Work New Ways To Work
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Enabling Analysis-Based DesignNew Ways To Work New Ways To Work
Engineers can now:
•create designs
•generate meshes
•run analyses
•review results on one
system
Engineers can now:
•create designs
•generate meshes
•run analyses
•review results on one
system
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Better InsightNew Ways To Work New Ways To Work
130 2x Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160 (3.00 GHz, 1333 FSB, 4 MB)
2x Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 (2.66 GHz, 1333 FSB, 8 MB)226
43 2x Intel® Xeon® Processor 3.60GHz with 2 MB L2 cache40
225
Average Sims / Min
Higher is better
100%100%
202%202%
425%425%
SunGard* Adaptiv Credit Analysis* & X_Trader* AutoTrader* demo software running simultaneously
Normalized to 100%
5.3xsims/min
Assess company credit risk while trading commodities on the US market
Get better market insight while continuing to
trade actively on the market
TradeTrade
TradeTrade
Assess Assess risksrisks
AssessAssessrisksrisks
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User experience
•Primary concern is impact to user experience.
•Negligible results seen today with proof-of-concept
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• “Working Differently” to compress the time between an idea and a product
– Manufacturing – Simultaneous Design + Simulation = Design Optimization >Users can iterate through over 4X as many designs in the same time
period
– Digital Media – Simultaneous Create + Render = Imagination Takes Form>Users can imaginer 4X faster. Be more daring while meeting demanding
schedules
– Energy – Simultaneous Design + Attribute Modeling = Reservoir Exploitation>“Users compress months of interpretation and modeling into a matter of
hours.”Doug Meikle Vice President Landmark Graphics
– Financial Services – Simultaneous Market Updates + Financial Modeling >Users observe trends and model financial valuations to mitigate risk at
new performance levels
8 Cores, ~78Gflops
Hardware evaluationsWhat’s in next decade?
New Ways To Work New Ways To Work
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Project-based benchmarking
•Worst-case performance scenario makes best-case benchmark opportunity
•Authors of application benchmarks should consider the bigger picture – front to back
•IT evaluators – micro-benchmarks for only quick tech eval
– relying less-and-less on single-application
– want real environment testing
•Blended application testing highlights opportunity– Today’s multitasking has negligible user experience impact
– How to design real-life benchmarks for tomorrow
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What can you do?
•Status quo isn’t going to be relevant next decade
•Industry inflection point
•Windows* porting continues – multitasking happens
•Game has changed – benchmarking industry must adapt
•Big picture when designing benchmark requirements
•People will work differently with parallel workflows
Are you up to the challenge?
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