[Beowulf] HPC cloud bursting providers?

[Justin Y. Shi]

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.lafayette at 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,
>
>
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> (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley)
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