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Moving HPC to the cloud

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Future Cloud Formations

Given the varied requirements for HPC clouds, it is understandable that the range of options can vary greatly. Solutions range from shared remote clusters to full virtualized systems in the cloud. Each method brings its own feature set that must be matched to the users' needs.

Finally, the above items are not intended to be an exhaustive list of HPC cloud providers. Others exist, and given that the market is new and growing, more vendors will be coming online in the near future. Many other factors should also be considered besides the brief analysis offered here. Your best results will come from doing due diligence and testing your assumptions. Perhaps the most important aspect of cloud HPC is the ability to work with your vendor, because having a good working safety net under your cloud might be the best strategy of all.

Infos

  1. Globus project: http://www.globus.org/
  2. Galaxy suite: http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/CloudMan
  3. "Will HPC Work in the Cloud?" by Douglas Eadline: http://www.clustermonkey.net/Grid/will-hpc-work-in-the-cloud.html
  4. Penguin On Demand: http://www.penguincomputing.com/Services/HPCCloud/POD
  5. Penguin online pricing estimator: http://www.penguincomputing.com/Services/HPCCloud/POD/Pricing
  6. R-HPC: http://www.r-hpc.com/
  7. Kove RAM disk storage array http://kove.com/
  8. Amazon preconfigured clusters: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/b/2649340011/ref=gtw_navlft_node_2649340011
  9. "A Performance and Cost Analysis of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Cluster Compute Instance" by Fenn, M., Holmes, J., Nucclarone, J., and Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure Group, Penn State University: http://rcc.its.psu.edu/education/white_papers/cloud_report.pdf
  10. Univa: http://www.univa.com/
  11. RightScale: http://www.rightscale.com/
  12. AWS Marketplace: http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
  13. Sabalcore: http://www.sabalcore.com/
  14. Cyclone: http://www.sgi.com/products/hpc_cloud/cyclone/
  15. Gompute: http://www.gompute.com/

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