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Accelerate HPC Workloads in the Cloud
The time for HPC in the cloud is now. Oracle offers on- demand HPC infrastructure, suitable for any HPC workload — based on the most advanced compute, storage, networking, and software technologies —at a fraction of the cost of building it yourself. Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure provides on- premises HPC performance with cloud flexibility and pricing. HPC applications run on bare-metal servers, no virtualization layer, no jitter, full network line rates.
The latest GPU and CPU chips with RDMA enable performance designed to meet or exceed your current HPC environment. Running HPC in the cloud means that there is no waiting in queues for your job, you can run and burst when you need to. Spin up thousands of cores in minutes and pay for them only when you use them. Our bare-metal HPC enables true ‘lift and shift’ capabilities. See why our customers choose to run their HPC, AI, and ML workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: https://cloud.
oracle.com/iaas/hpc
”You ideally abstract the complexity of the cloud from the end-users, those researchers and scientists that are submitting work”
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and shrinks, what data goes where, and also what data gets flagged with those workloads because we can facilitate that as well,’ said Lalonde. ‘Because we are the Grid Engine people, Navops Launch and Grid Engine work together through a common repository of metrics that enables Navops Launch to know what’s going on in the on-premise cluster,’ said Lalonde. ‘There are lots of ways of
lifting and shifting workloads to the cloud. Azure and Amazon have got their tools but you are building dedicated clusters. We are leveraging that on-premise
investment so that is really attractive to our customers. We are not asking them to change their world we are helping them to extend their existing infrastructure and that makes customers more comfortable,’ concluded Lalonde.
Making the most of hybrid cloud
With the opportunity to push specialised workloads out into the cloud also comes a challenge in ensuring that the application fits the architecture. In order to maximise the efficiency of a public cloud set-up, it is imperative that ‘you are
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Navops Launch - Enhanced platform for HPC cloud migration, cost management, and cloud automation
Univa® Navops is a multi-cloud provisioning, monitoring, and management platform that helps enterprises integrate HPC environments with the cloud, control spending, rightsize cloud resources and automate decisions based on real-time cloud, application and workload-related metrics with composable automation applets. Unlike some tools that
provision cloud resources based on static policies or a cloud queue, Navops Launch is application, resource, and budget-aware, and can
going to have to understand your applications a lot better to really benefit the cloud,’ said Dean. ‘You can spin up a LUSTRE environment and nodes with a high-performance interconnect but you really need to understand if that is what your applications needs.’ Dean acknowledged that,
while some customers may have just one or two applications, that is not the case for the majority of research clusters. In a scenario like this, it is a simple case of working with the ISV or benchmarking the applications to determine which architecture suits them best. However, most HPC centres
have hundreds of users with nearly as many different applications. For these types of customers, Dean notes that it is
adjust workload and resource deployments on-the-fly and takes into account, planned spending by project and department, on-premise capacity, actual cloud resource usage by application, and data access patterns. With Navops Launch
organizations can maximize and balance the utilization of on- premise and cloud resources, reduce total spending, and boost performance of end- user productivity by ensuring that the right resources are available for the right application. Learn more about Navops
Launch and Univa HPC hybrid cloud solutions at
http://www.univa.com/ products/
navops.php.
much more difficult to ascertain which hardware is best suited to the majority of users. ‘Some customers have hundreds of applications, and then there has to be a little bit of picking the low- hanging fruit and understanding where the biggest benefits can be made by truly understanding the applications and figuring out what should be placed where,’ said Dean. ‘The great thing about public cloud for testing these technologies is that you can access them and only pay for what you use. You do not need to invest £100,000 on infrastructure just to see if your application scales and performs as you need it to. You can spin up 1,000 of these nodes if you want to and you are only paying for the time you use,’ Dean concluded.
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