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High Performance Computing in a Cloud Using OpenStack

Authors:
Roman Ledyayev
Harald Richter

Keywords: simulation, cloud computing, High Performance Computing, OpenStack, VM

Abstract:
Cloud computing is a rapidly gaining popularity computing paradigm, prompted by much research efforts. However, not much work is done in the area of joining cloud computing with high performance computing in an efficient way, e.g., for scientific simulation purposes. Moreover, there is even less research effort in making cloud computing for scientific simulations more efficient and suitable for specific simulation codes. This paper presents an ongoing “SimPaaS” project – our research efforts in building a cloud based platform for scientific simulations. It deals with some challenging features in cloud computing, such as performance. The concepts and methods proposed in this paper allow customizing and optimizing cloud infrastructure to increase its performance and to meet certain requirements, drawn from the analysis of case study simulation codes. Even though clouds are not the most suitable environments for high performance computing, the conclusion was drawn that there are ways to increase cloud performance and effectively combine the two paradigms.

Pages: 108 to 113

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: May 25, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-338-4

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from May 25, 2014 to May 29, 2014