TY - GEN
T1 - LLSuperCloud
AU - Reuther, Albert
AU - Kepner, Jeremy
AU - Arcand, William
AU - Bestor, David
AU - Bergeron, Bill
AU - Byun, Chansup
AU - Hubbell, Matthew
AU - Michaleas, Peter
AU - Mullen, Julie
AU - Prout, Andrew
AU - Rosa, Antonio
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The supercomputing and enterprise computing arenas come from very different lineages. However, the advent of commodity computing servers has brought the two arenas closer than they have ever been. Within enterprise computing, commodity computing servers have resulted in the development of a wide range of new cloud capabilities: elastic computing, virtualization, and data hosting. Similarly, the supercomputing community has developed new capabilities in heterogeneous, massively parallel hardware and software. Merging the benefits of enterprise clouds and supercomputing has been a challenging goal. Significant effort has been expended in trying to deploy supercomputing capabilities on cloud computing systems. These efforts have resulted in unreliable, low-performance solutions, which requires enormous expertise to maintain. LLSuperCloud provides a novel solution to the problem of merging enterprise cloud and supercomputing technology. More specifically LLSuperCloud reverses the traditional paradigm of attempting to deploy supercomputing capabilities on a cloud and instead deploys cloud capabilities on a supercomputer. The result is a system that can handle heterogeneous, massively parallel workloads while also providing high performance elastic computing, virtualization, and databases. The benefits of LLSuperCloud are highlighted using a mixed workload of C MPI, parallel MATLAB, Java, databases, and virtualized web services.
AB - The supercomputing and enterprise computing arenas come from very different lineages. However, the advent of commodity computing servers has brought the two arenas closer than they have ever been. Within enterprise computing, commodity computing servers have resulted in the development of a wide range of new cloud capabilities: elastic computing, virtualization, and data hosting. Similarly, the supercomputing community has developed new capabilities in heterogeneous, massively parallel hardware and software. Merging the benefits of enterprise clouds and supercomputing has been a challenging goal. Significant effort has been expended in trying to deploy supercomputing capabilities on cloud computing systems. These efforts have resulted in unreliable, low-performance solutions, which requires enormous expertise to maintain. LLSuperCloud provides a novel solution to the problem of merging enterprise cloud and supercomputing technology. More specifically LLSuperCloud reverses the traditional paradigm of attempting to deploy supercomputing capabilities on a cloud and instead deploys cloud capabilities on a supercomputer. The result is a system that can handle heterogeneous, massively parallel workloads while also providing high performance elastic computing, virtualization, and databases. The benefits of LLSuperCloud are highlighted using a mixed workload of C MPI, parallel MATLAB, Java, databases, and virtualized web services.
KW - cloud computing
KW - high performance computing
KW - virtual machines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893444000&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HPEC.2013.6670329
DO - 10.1109/HPEC.2013.6670329
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893444000
SN - 9781479913657
T3 - 2013 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, HPEC 2013
BT - 2013 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, HPEC 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 10 September 2013 through 12 September 2013
ER -