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Deep Learning

High Performance Networking

High Performance Storage

Visual Workstations Technology

AI Consulting

High Performance Computing

GPU Computing

High Frequency Trading Solutions

Managed ServicesProfessional Services

Big DataAnalytics

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Cloud Platforms

Server Solutions

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XENON is an Australian leader in High Performance Computing solutions.

Our customised technology solutions and products are designed to tackle the most data intensive and complex visualisation challenges, allowing our clients to focus on breaking new ground in their respective fields.

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1998Telstra Digital Video NetworkSupplied Video Server equipment

2011Fox Broadcasting USASupplied Video Logging solution

2011Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)Supplied Infiniband equipment

2013Digital Cinema SystemsUpgraded 150 Independent Cinemas in ANZ region

2014University of QueenslandFlashLite HPC cluster system for high data throughput

2016Oil SearchDeployed Intel® CAS to speed reservoir modeling

2016Garvan Institute of Medical ResearchNVMe solution that enables high data throughput

2012FujitsuSupplied Infiniband Network for Australia’s largest Supercomputer (“Raijin”)

2015Thales DefenceDelivered High Fidelity Solution for Australian Army Tiger Helicopter Simulator

2017NCISupercomputer dedicated to scientific research & technology innovation

2015FuturisXENON drive high performance innovation

2017The Walter andEliza Hall InstitutePrivate Cloud For Next Generation Cancer, Disease & Medical Research

2000Animal Logic Render Farm delivered for the “Matrix” movie trilogy

2004TataSky DTH IndiaSupplied Video Logging solution

2005Thales DefenceSupplied Image Generators for the ASLAV simulators

2007Victorian Partnership for Advance ComputingSupplied HPC Cluster for Advance Computing

2009CSIRO(10th in Green500 ranking)Supplied Australia’s first GPU Cluster (“Bragg”)

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XENON SOLUTIONS

Artificial Intelligence Consulting

XENON designs and delivers Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that include the very latest

high-performance CPU, GPU, network, and storage hardware for optimizing performance of deep learning software and AI container stacks.

By understanding customer expectations for AI and performing capability analysis of IT systems, XENON applies a multi-step approach to implementing AI and deep learning within organisations including:

• Efficient storage & backup systems for AI datasets

• Software and hardware matched to specific AI functions

• AI technical resources and training• AI Results measurement

Deep Learning Workshops

XENON offers hands-on training for developers, data scientists, and researchers looking to solve

challenging problems with Deep Learning (DL). These workshops are led by certified instructors and can be held publicly or privately, throughout Australia and NZ. For private workshops business managers can request an on-site highly customised DL curriculum for their team. The workshops cover the foundations of deep learning such as Image Classification and Neural Network Deployment using popular frameworks. Outcomes:• Understand the components of DL

systems intuitively• Train a Deep Neural Network (DNN) to

correctly classify images it has never seen before

• Deploy deep neural networks into applications

Analytics Software

Anticipate future outcomes and steer your business in the right direction fast with XENON range

of data analytics software solutions. KINETICAInsight engine for the Extreme Data Economy for both streaming data and data-at-rest. Harness the power of data to drive ever-changing business.

Accelerated parallel computing—powered by NVIDIA® GPUs—tackles the unpredictability and complexity of extreme data. ESI MINESET Predictive Analytics software with integrated machine learning enables easy interactive exploration of data in the cloud or on premise. Benefits include:• Visualisation Driven Data Discovery• Intuitive Predictive Analysis• What-if Analysis

GPU Computing

Graphics processing units (GPUs) can offload compute-intensive functions in code from CPUs,

giving scientific computing researchers and commercial businesses orders-of-magnitude faster processing times.

XENON empowers you to build a highly customised High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, server or workstation based on NVIDIA® Tesla® and Quadro® GPUs.

In addition, XENON has partnered closely with NVIDIA® and is:• HPC Partner – Elite• Deep Learning Partner – Elite• Professional Visualization Partner – Elite• GPU Virtualization Partner – Preferred• DGX partner in Australia


XENON SOLUTIONS

High Frequency Trading

XENON has a strong track record of providing innovative High Frequency Trading (HFT)

solutions to leading investment and proprietary trading firms in global financial markets.

XENON’s HFT product portfolio consists of:• eXtreme HFT Servers• Arista Low-latency Switches• Solarflare Server Adapters and Software

Applications• Exablaze Network Adapters and Low-

latency Switches• Spectracom Network Time Server• Mellanox/Infiniband

XENON also partners with MRV Communications, a global supplier of packet and optical solutions that power the world’s largest networks.

High Performance Networking

XENON delivers High Performance Computing (HPC) networking solutions based on Infiniband

and Ethernet technology. Infiniband is a communications standard used in HPC which features very high throughput and very low latency.

Infiniband technology solutions include:• Mellanox• Intel Omnipath

These products are ideal for large scale, low latency data transfers for Message Passing Interface (MPI) traffic used in HPC clusters.

Ethernet technology solutions include:• Mellanox + Cumulus• Arista• Extreme Networks

These products are ideal for low latency software defined networks.

High Performance Computing

XENON offers a full range of industry leading Servers and Storage technologies designed for

High Performance Computing (HPC) users.

XENON’s HPC portfolio includes:• HPC solution design • High Performance-Servers, Clusters,

Storage and Parallel file systems• High Performance Networking technologies• A comprehensive Software Stack for

HPC including: • Performance monitoring tools• Development tools• Application libraries• Job Management and Scheduling• File Systems (Lustre, GPFS, Panasas, NFS)• System/Cluster Management (xCAT, Bright Computing)

• Operating environments (RedHat, CentOS, SuSE)

High Performance Storage

XENON offers a comprehensive range of Storage solutions designed to manage, optimise and accelerate

workflows. XENON Storage solutions include:• DDN ExaScaler & GridScaler• Pure Storage• Ceph• WekaIO• Panasas• Quantum

Other storage solutions include:• NVMe Solutions• NAS & JBOD Solutions• Automated Tape Libraries In addition, XENON can provide support and consultation services ranging from business strategy to technical related matters concerning your specific storage needs.


XENON SOLUTIONS

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

XENON Vir tual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions create a centralised desktop

experience that is accessible from multiple devices (tablets, laptops & workstations) with a broadband connection, offering improved data security, reduced downtime, and an accelerated deployment process that is quick and painless.

Multiple VDI appliances can be clustered together and deployed to support thousands of users. VDI can help simplify device management in a BYOD environment as corporate resources are not stored on the device but instead remain on the premises or in the cloud.

XENON VDI solutions feature GPU acceleration utilising NVIDIA GRID technology and are delivered via:• Citrix XenDesktop• VMware Horizon

Big Data Analytics

All Big Data Solutions are built and configured by XENON to achieve the best performance. Each

solution is custom designed by XENON engineers to cater towards specific and unique project requirements to establish optimisation and achieve maximum scalability and efficiency.

Each solution is designed to :• Simultaneously store and process large

datasets in a distributed environment across servers and storage for extensive structured and unstructured data mining and analysis

• Meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) while accommodating a wide range of analytic, exploration, query and transformation workloads

• Tailor and deploy validated reference architectures

• Lower costs & drive insights from your data

Cloud Platforms

Organisations are seeking Cloud Computing platforms to help them better deliver existing as

well as new, innovative services on demand across network, computing, and storage resources at reduced cost.

XENON can assist by designing and deploying cloud computing solutions that will streamline usability.

Private Cloud deployments are based on:• OpenStack’s Cloud Computing platform• VMware vCloud Suite• Microsoft® Cloud Platform

XENON’s Hybrid Cloud solutions incorporate both Private Cloud and Public Cloud services from:• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)• Google AppEngine • Microsoft Azure Services

Deep Learning

Deep Learning is used widely in the research community to help solve many big data problems such as

computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. XENON Deep Learning solutions include:• XENON DEVCUBE

Featuring four TITAN V GPUs with 7 TFlops of single precision, 336.5GB/s of memory bandwidth with 12 GB of memory per board

• AIRI by Pure Storage

All-flash storage and GPU powered solution for artificial intelligence

• NVIDIA® DGX Station™Fastest deep learning system designed for use at your desk

• NVIDIA® DGX-1™ and DGX-2The world’s first purpose built systems for Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning


XENON SOLUTIONS

Visual Workstations Technology

XENON’s range of high performance visual workstations are designed to meet the demanding creative

needs of video production and post-production workflow.

Our systems are optimised for creating special effects, digital animation, encoding, rendering, transcoding and editing high resolution media at the highest throughput rates to improve your team’s productivity and enhance your competitive advantage.

Ideal for: • Video Rendering• Modeling: 2D /3D• Animation: 2D /3D• High Definition HD Workflow: 4K / 8K• Virtual Reality and Immersive Imaging

Professional Services

XENON offers an array of services to assist users with complex computing challenges and

problems. Our team of specialist all have broad industry knowledge, experience and expertise.

What sets us apart are our long-term relationships with our customers. The trust they place in us is founded upon the personal ongoing service we offer, long after the initial deployment of their solution. We forge long-standing relationships through a strong commitment to quality, service, and value.

XENON can offer expert services tailored to your unique requirements to assist you with your Compute, Storage and Networking challenges. Services can include areas such as solution design, troubleshooting to hardware rentals.

Managed Services

XENON software solutions makes it easy to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC)

clusters, Big Data clusters, and OpenStack - in the datacentre and in the cloud.

XENON can support a range of HPC Cluster management products including: Rocks, xCAT, Slurm, PBS and Bright. This enables customers to focus on critical research and business rather than struggling to manage compute environments.

In addition, XENON along with it partners can deliver tailored training and provide knowledge transfer in both class-room or less informal work environments.

Our training partners include:• Quantum Corporation• Mellanox Technologies• DDN Storage• NVIDIA® • Intel®

Server Solutions

XENON understands that computing workloads are becoming more highly sophisticated and specialised and

these workload require computing systems that are tuned to the performance demands and characteristics of each workload.

XENON can offer the right combination of systems to meet any business challenge as well as maximise your IT investment.

XENON offers a comprehensive range of server solutions dedicated to solving each individual’s business problem that include:• Single/Dual Processor servers• Large Memory Systems (Multi-

processors/ Large memory: 4-way, 8-way, ScaleMP)

• High Density server solutions including Blade systems

• Cloud Microservers


RECENT SUCCESSES

XENON Brings Affordable 24×7 Genome Sequencing Computing Capability to the Garvan The challenge has now become to normalise the data across the cohort. This process is known as joint variant calling (“JVC”).

“When we went to XENON, we had very specific workloads that we were hoping to support including JVC and other types of bioinformatics computations and codes. The computer cluster, which the Garvan Institute acquired from XENON, was designed specifically around very fast local storage based on Intel® NVMe SSDs and the latest generation of Intel® CPUs.

As a result, researchers at the Garvan Institute have now been able to apply the JVC method to 1200 genomes which is the first part of the Medical Genome Reference Bank (MGRB) cohort of 4000.

XENON Expands Computational Resources at NCI for World Class Australian Research

NCI selected a solution from XENON and its technology partners Lenovo, Mellanox, and Cumulus, that would be integrated with Raijin’s existing infrastructure. “We chose to work with XENON due to their prior experience in designing and delivering HPC systems,” said Dr Muhammad Atif, Manager of HPC Systems and Cloud Services at NCI.

The new Raijin system was up and running ahead of schedule. Service disruption was minimized as all the performance tests were successfully completed over the Christmas holiday period.

“The system boost was up and running in time for acceptance testing over the holidays,” said Mr Williams. “XENON staff along with its partners worked extra long hours to make sure that everything went as planned. In fact we were back on line one day ahead of schedule.”

At ISC 2017, it was announced that Raijin was ranked within the world’s Top500 as the fastest computer in Oceania.

WEHI and XENON Design Private Cloud For Next Generation Cancer, Disease & Medical Research

With an ever increasing demand for high-performance computing resources due to accelerating data growth and a growing number of bioinformaticians and computational biologists the Institute needed to expand its research computing resources.

XENON presented a sophisticated Compute, Storage and Networking design that included a commercial-grade private cloud implementation with a software stack based around VMWare. The response was based on technology that has been well established, but never in the proposed configuration. This aligned to Mr Szarlat’s vision of pooling and providing resources in a virtualised environment instead of a system of individual but shared machines.

“XENON designed an incredibly forward-thinking approach, with sophisticated use of software as a differentiator. Most importantly, the team worked relentlessly with us to deliver a solution rather than just a system,” said Jakub Szarlat, eResearch Manager at WEHI.


RECENT SUCCESSES

Intel and XENON Drive High Performance Innovation at Futuris

Futuris is a company that designs and manufactures automotive seating and interiors at design and manufacturing facilities around the world. Considering their reputation for high quality and innovation, they looked for a system that would keep Futuris ahead of the industry and push design limits.

XENON designed a solution based on a Linux cluster architecture with a management and storage node and five compute nodes tied together by XENON’s customized cluster solution. All nodes leverage Intel’s Grantley platform with Haswell dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2667v3 Processors. These processors were chosen for their high single core performance as well as their high throughput with 8 physical cores per CPU.

The high speed Infiniband interconnect ties the cluster together into a high performance machine, which maximises the throughput and minimises the run time for the finite element simulations and model turn-around time for the engineers.

Intel and XENON Help Oil Search Dig Deeper Into Sub-Surface Oil and Gas Analysis

This unique oil sector technology project returns strong cost to benefit ratio.

Geoff Balemans, Telecommunications and High Performance Computing Manager at Oil Search works with the upstream technical computing groups. He explains that with low oil prices, it’s a much less forgiving market for error and so detailed modelling of assets, using sophisticated technology, becomes even more of a priority.

Balemans turned to long-term consulting partner, XENON to assist with this challenge. On this occasion, XENON designed a solution using new Intel® technology, Intel® Cache Acceleration Software for Windows* Workstations (Intel® CAS-W).

By storing a copy of this “hot” data in the SSD, server applications can access the data and run faster. Intel® CAS-W offers up to 12 times more performance on transactional database processing and up to 36 times faster processing of I/O intensive virtualised workloads.

XENON Deploys a Multi-Million Dollar High Performance Computing Solution to University of Queensland

XENON, a High Performance Computing (HPC) specialist, won a competitive tender to build and deliver a bespoke HPC computer that can process and analyse larger datasets than ever before, and put Australia at the forefront of big data research.

Led by Professor David Abramson, designer of FlashLite and Director of the University of Queensland’s Research Computing Centre, the computer includes three main innovations: high speed flash memory (instead of spinning disk), large amounts of high-speed main memory and software shared memory. Inspired by the US National Science Foundation Machine, Gordon, it will help deliver breakthroughs in research such as cardiac disease, climate change and astrophysics.

XENON delivered a system that includes ScaleMP software to provide huge memory mainframe-style processing benefits in a modern cluster system using next generation technologies. Compute nodes in FlashLite can be flexibly aggregated together into larger ‘supernodes’ using ScaleMP’s vSMP (Versatile Symmetric Multiprocessing) software.

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