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HPC AS A DRIVER OF INNOVATION

CELSO GARRIDO UAM AZCAPOTZALCO

RISC Workshop. November 23 and 24, Conacyt, Mexico

TOPICS

I. Main questionsII. Science and innovationIII. New approaches to innovationIV. Innovation risk management and HPCV. Economics of HPC for innovationVI. HPC and developmentA final remark

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MAIN QUESTIONS

Why the biggest transnational are doing an increasing use of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in its strategic management of innovation?Can the HPC be a tool to improve innovation practices of Latin American SME?Which shall be the responsibility of public and private sector to promote the use of HPG for the development of the region?

II. SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

A first clarificationScience:

Invest money to produce knowledge

Economic innovation: Apply knowledge to produce money

Scientific and entrepreneurs use HPC, but in this presentation, we will focus on the second one

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NEW APPROACHES TO INNOVATION

Some basic statements on innovationFirms innovate to create value for themselves and its clients. Economic innovation by firms is an outcome of a systemic process applied by them in the context of certain economic ecosystem. Their, they combine competition and cooperation with other actorsThe innovation is a strategic process, so firm of any size can and has to manage it.


Innovation managementAccording to Total Innovation Management (TIM) approach, economic innovation is a continuous process of the firm. It includes all the internal and external factors and actors of the ecosystem, under the pressure of competition

• In the most dynamic industries, competition accelerates the timing of innovation and shortens the life cycle of its outcomes.

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This innovation process, begin with a business model and finish when it arrives at the desired goal of value creation (product, process, organization, etc)

Business models define the new ways the firm will undertake to create value based on innovations.

After this, managers will make a decision about how to concrete the model (R&D, technology, design, organization, marketing, etc)


• Along the innovation process, the firms develop learning curves guided by a “try and fail” practice

• This process creates risks due to the nature of innovation, that not make possible to assure a priory a successful outcome

• This means that firms will have to learn how to manage risks along the learning curve, improving its conditions and timing

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INNOVATION RISK MANAGEMENT AND HPC

HPC provides a number of powerful tools to manage the innovation process

Distributed and Grid Computing Design, testing and quality production

Virtualization Visualization and Data Management.

Graphics Processing Units Parallelism and Data Sharing on Multi-core Architectures

Tools and Environments for High Performance System Engineering

Modeling, simulation and analytics (MS&A)


The use of these tools has a different impact on the economic activity Lower design and production costsIncrease qualityEnhance capabilities offered in biddingCreate highly-skilled technical workforcesImprove collaboration with the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)

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INNOVATION RISK MANAGEMENT AND HPC All of these create an effect on “time to market”


Benefits of management based on HPCTurn around time in a lab is about nine months; on a computer, it is less than one week. It would cost about $50,000 per compound to analyse in a lab. Computationally, we can do it for about $3,000. HPC based virtual prototyping and large scale modelling, dramatically accelerate and streamlineNot only “upstream” R&D, design and engineering but also “downstream” business process (data mining, logistic, CRM, etc)

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Main barriers for the use of HPC Educational and training hurdles (shortage of computational scientists) Technical obstacles (e.g., legacy codes need updating, new code development lags, growing performance gap between fast processors and other system technologies) Firms often see HPC as a cost, rather than a value investment, largely due to the difficulty businesses had in determining the return on investment (ROI) of HPC systems

ECONOMICS OF HPC FOR INNOVATION

Evolution of the HCP industry at a global levelAccelerated technological changes required by the international competitionServers were the largest segment but declined as a percentage throughout the forecast period The highest growth rates will be in storage and services

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Different configurations


• The total HPC market in 2010 was $25.6 billion, reaching $36.0 billion in 2015New business models with the Internet and cloud computingHPC resources “in the cloud” are becoming increasingly available and allow users to consider the cloud as a service

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Cloud as a Service business: dynamically scalable and virtualizes resources as a service over the Internet

IaaS PaaS Saas

Infrastructure as a Service Platform as a Service Software as a Service

Accessible on line, anytime, anywherePay for what you useAvailable on demand

Service level agreementsAutomated scalability, failover

Concurrency management


HPC operates in an economic ecosystem

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ECONOMICS OF HPC FOR INNOVATION HPC is an innovation accelerator that propels productivity, competitiveness and economic development

HPC AND DEVELOPMENT

However, to make such competitiveness change, it is necessary to consider that the relation HPC- innovation shall apply in a National Innovation System (NIS)

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HPC AND DEVELOPMENTConceptual diagram of the NIS

Economy policy

Develop social Infrastructure

Education policy

Labour policy

Science and technology policy

Tax and financial policy

CollaborationProduce knowledge Utilize knowledge

Universities Companies

Development in terms of both science/technology and

industry

Market

Products and services

Innovators

Demand

Government

Politics and economyEnvironment, culture, tradition, national character

Knowledge base

Society

Policy

Knowledge base

Industry

Market

HPC AND DEVELOPMENT

To increase the impact of HPC on innovation, we have to consider three key elementsCooperation among public- private sector to enhance the use of HPC as a tool for innovationCooperation among university and firms to share HPC facilitiesDevelop the use of HPC in the manufacturing supply chain for modelling, simulation and analytics (MS&A)

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FINAL REMARK

IF A COUNTRY WANTS OUT COMPETE

IT MUST OUT COMPUTE

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