Mastering The Change Game
For Sustained Economic Development
and Societal Improvement
Raed Al-Rabeh
Saudi HPC 2017
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Pre … When Engineering Defined HPC
Low-level, in-depth
knowledge was essential
Distinct computer science
disciplines
Clear innovation paths
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Change: IT Technologies
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Changes in HPC Storage
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Fundamental Economics
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Faster Application Development
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Organizational Changes
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IT Organizational Changes
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Implications for the HPC Community …
Explore IT disruptive innovations
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Agile Deployment
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Different Business Continuity Models
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Infrastructure (e.g. Hyper convergence, MDCs, etc.)
Service provisioning (e.g. VDI, Cloud, etc.)
Applications (e.g. DevOps, containers, etc.)
Resilience built in the application
Fault tolerant system design
Data centric approach
New Possibilities
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Use of Big Data, AI, etc.
Borrowing Techniques from other disciplines
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Implications for the HPC Community
Collaborate
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Alignment between research and business community
Too many technologies to be mastered by one entity
Incremental cumulative projects for capacity building
Multi-disciplinary approach
Do not lose track of the fundamentals
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Efficient data management life cycle
Effective and smart security
Disciplined project management
Excellence in data center operations
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The Local Factor
Aligned with 2030 Vision
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Economic Growth – new industry and services
New high paying jobs
Improved well-being – health/environment
Adoption
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Create a National HPC Center
Enable wider foot print for HPC usage in industry
Take a multi-disciplinary academic approach
Involve key vendors as partners
Avoid the bureaucracy
Raise HPC awareness
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2030
In Summary …
Exciting changes are happening in IT/HPC
The challenge is to master it and take full advantage of it … locally
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Thank You
References and Data Sources:
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USENIX LISA’16 conference
IDC Model Based on US BLS Data
DELL EMC Market Research
R. Ray Wang, “Disrupting Digital Business”,
Harvard Business Review, May 2015
• Right Scale: State of the Cloud Report 2015