[Beowulf] experience with HPC running on OpenStack

[John Hearns]

The video is here. From 04:00 onwards

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/magic_castle/

"OK your cluster will be available in about 20 minutes"

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 14:27, INKozin <i.n.kozin at googlemail.com> wrote:

> And that's how you deploy an HPC cluster!
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 14:21, John Hearns <hearnsj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I saw Magic Castle being demonstrated lve at FOSDEM this year.
>> It is more a Terraform/ansible setup for configuring clusters on demand.
>>
>> The person demonstrating it called a Google Home assistant with a voice
>> command and asked it to build and deploy a cluster - which it did!
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 12:21, Jörg Saßmannshausen <
>> sassy-work at sassy.formativ.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> we are currently planning a new cluster and this time around the idea
>>> was to
>>> use OpenStack for the HPC part of the cluster as well.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if somebody has some first hand experiences on the list
>>> here.
>>> One of the things we currently are not so sure about it is InfiniBand
>>> (or
>>> another low latency network connection but not ethernet): Can you run
>>> HPC jobs
>>> on OpenStack which require more than the number of cores within a box? I
>>> am
>>> thinking of programs like CP2K, GROMACS, NWChem (if that sounds familiar
>>> to
>>> you) which utilise these kind of networks very well.
>>>
>>> I cam across things like MagicCastle from Computing Canada but as far as
>>> I
>>> understand it, they are not using it for production (yet).
>>>
>>> Is anybody on here familiar with this?
>>>
>>> All the best from London
>>>
>>> Jörg
>>>
>>>
>>>
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