The use of cloud computing technologies within HPC has grown considerably within the last few years. The complexity and scale that comes with cloud environments can make the first experience a daunting proposition. Cloud technologies offer a number of new capabilities to streamline tasks for HPC users and administrators, however, how to use them in HPC may not be immediately clear.
This tutorial will provide a solid foundation of skills to run common HPC workloads using cloud technologies as well as providing a deeper view into how to use cloud-native technologies into HPC workflows, such as object storage. The tutorial starts with a primer on modern cloud foundations and how they map to common HPC concepts. This includes a hands-on portion that allows attendees to setup their own cluster in the cloud and run a sample application. The rest of the tutorial provides progressively deeper dives through lectures and hands-on sessions for topics such as common HPC on cloud architectures, automation, containers, and serverless technologies and how they can be used in HPC workflows.
This tutorial uses a combination of lectures and hands-on labs on provided temporary Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to provide both conceptual and hands-on learning.
Contributors:
- Maxime Hugues (AWS)
- Pierre-Yves Aquilanti (AWS)
- Francesco Ruffino (AWS)
- Nicola Venuti (AWS)
- Brian Skjerven (AWS)
- Francesco Ferrari (University of Genoa)
- Matt Koop (AWS)
- Angel Pizzaro (AWS)
- Sean Smith (AWS)
- Garg Soham (AWS)
- Anh Tran (AWS)
