Re: [Beowulf] HPC cloud bursting providers?

2017-02-21 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 21/02/17 12:40, 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. We (I help them with this) did try cloudbursting into th

Re: [Beowulf] HPC cloud bursting providers?

2017-02-21 Thread Lev Lafayette
On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 21:10 -0800, Jeff Friedman wrote: > Thank you for the info, it is helpful. Do you mind if I ask what cluster > management software you are using? Where there modifications or special > functions needed to include cloud nodes in the cluster? I am trying to > envision how the

Re: [Beowulf] HPC cloud bursting providers?

2017-02-21 Thread Gavin W. Burris
Hello, Jeff. This is in production here at Wharton. Over a year ago, we started offering cloud bursting to our faculty that had needs beyond a fairshare of the HPCC. Univa UniCloud is our solution. With an AWS config per project, cloud compute nodes may be launched al a carte on the PI's bud

Re: [Beowulf] HPC cloud bursting providers?

2017-02-21 Thread Waleed Harbi
Hi, We have great POC results for VASP, Gaussian, and Matlab on Public Cloud in Saudi Arabia. I will make it simple If you want run MPI jobs go for Azure they have IB, other options such as AWS will not fit for MPI jobs but they are excellent for serial jobs such as Gaussian. Overall you need bui

Re: [Beowulf] HPC cloud bursting providers?

2017-02-21 Thread Tim Cutts
We don't actively use it, but we have demonstrated we can extend our LSF clusters into AWS. I'm sure it could be done just as easily to other public cloud platforms. It's a more practical prospect for us than for many traditional HPC sites, because most of our workloads are embarrassingly para