HPC cloud really does not work well for traditional HPC apps. US National Science Foundation has built the "configurable" Chameleon cloud that offers regular OpenStack VMs and bare metal VMs: https://www.chameleoncloud.org/
Justin On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Lev Lafayette <lev.lafaye...@unimelb.edu.au > wrote: > On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 12:40 +1100, Lachlan Musicman wrote: > > I know that it's been done successfully here by the University of > > Melbourne's Research Platforms team - but they are bursting into the > > non commercial Aust govt Open Stack installation Nectar. > > http://nectar.org.au > > > > More specifically, part of Melbourne's node of NeCTAR is used a > partition for our HPC system, Spartan. We have tested cloud-bursting > with a further partition (reading 'bursting' as the ability to quickly > deploy a set of additional resources more or less "on demand"). We're > introducing external cloud partitions as well to the system. > > Short version is the use of a cloud partition works really well for us, > and in particular suits our user profile in terms of the jobs they run > etc. > > All the best, > > > -- > Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA > (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) > HPC Support and Training Officer +61383444193 +61432255208 > Department of Infrastructure Services, University of Melbourne > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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