Cloud virtualization and containerization have become prominent in HPC and Advanced Research Computing. Adopting these technologies has enabled IT organizations to reduce costs while making managing large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources easier. However, performance overheads, networking integrations, and system complexity pose daunting architectural challenges. There is a growing trend for using OpenStack’s bare metal support to provide cloud-native APIs for flexible HPC infrastructure management, allowing systems architects to blur the boundaries between legacy shared infrastructure approaches common in HPC and multi-tenant self-service cloud approaches.
OpenStack is a global cloud solution that supports some of the planet's most complex science infrastructures. However, it also poses unique benefits and challenges.
This Birds of a Feather is aimed at architects, administrators, software engineers, and scientists interested in designing and deploying cloud infrastructure solutions to support Advanced Research Computing use cases and workloads.
Authors: Martial Michel, Jeremy Fischer, Mike Lowe, Julian Pistorius, and Stephen Bird.
