The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Authors: David Hancock (Indiana University), Sadaf Alam (University of Bristol), Maxime Martinasso (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre), François Tessier (INRIA), Winona Snapp-Childs (Indiana University)
Abstract: The SuperCompCloud series of panels, workshops, and BoFs has a goal of bringing together experts and practitioners from academia, national labs, and industry to discuss technologies, use cases and best practices in order to share vision and direction for leveraging high performance, extreme-scale computing and on-demand cloud ecosystems in light of increasing software complexity, narrowing on-premise infrastructure options, and cloud-only architectures. The session will continue the discussion of the latest challenges and plans in addition to interactive polling to engage the community in discussion with a level of interactivity distinct from the workshop series.
Long Description: This BoF will bring together experts and practitioners from academia, national labs, and industry to discuss technologies, use cases and best practices in order to set a vision and direction for leveraging high performance, extreme-scale computing and on-demand cloud ecosystems. The goal of the BoF is to continue the discussion of the latest community developments with a level of interactivity distinct from the workshop series.
Of particular interest for discussion is how this intersection has affected the current generation of research infrastructure and what institutions are planning for the future. These plans are of particular interest as software complexity increases, the diversity of vendor partners narrows for on-premise infrastructure, and with cloud-only architectures made available by the largest commercial providers.
The SuperCompCloud panel, workshop, and BoF series has drawn participation from around the globe at ISC and SC since starting in 2019. The intersection of supercomputing and cloud technologies is more relevant than ever. Past panel attendance was well over 200 and the workshop series has consistently been in the top 10 at SCxy. We have not held a BoF at SC before but anticipate participation will carry forward with 50-100 participants expected.
Topics related to interoperability of exascale and cloud computing, networking and storage technologies leveraged by research teams and infrastructure providers with a goal to improve productivity and reproducibility of extreme-scale scientific workflows. Included within the scope:
- Virtualization for HPC, containers technologies, and multi-tenancy
- Storage systems for HPC and cloud technologies (on-demand and interactive)
- Resource management and scheduling systems for HPC and cloud technologies
- Software defined infrastructure for high-end computing, storage and networking
- Application environment, integration and deployment technologies
- Secure, high-speed networking for integrated HPC and cloud ecosystems
- Use cases: Extreme data and compute workflows, research infrastructure deployment
- Resiliency and reproducibility of complex and distributed workflows
- Isolation and security within shared HPC environments
- Workflow orchestration using public cloud and HPC data center resources
- Authentication, authorization and accounting for HPC and cloud ecosystems
- Workforce development for integrated HPC and cloud environments
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/supercompcloud