This summer, Univa sponsored an industry-wide survey, in conjunction with Dimensional Research to better understand what key challenges our HPC users are currently facing that are preventing them from moving their machine learning (ML) projects into production. Our goal is…
More HPC users are considering migrating some of their workloads to the cloud than ever before. For those who are in the earliest stages of exploring the possibility of extending their HPC infrastructures to the cloud, here are 5 ways…
Understanding the big three container platforms: Docker, Singularity, and Shifter A few years ago, when the container hype was at its peak, one could have been forgiven for thinking that virtualization was all but dead. Microvisors were the new Hypervisors,…
Avoiding common pitfalls with HPC cloud migration projects It’s no secret that cloud computing is on the rise. While we wait for data on 2018, Gartner estimated cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) revenue at US $34.6B in 2017, a whopping 36.8% high…
Once you have identified your HPC cloud migration strategy, you will want to research cloud providers. Choosing the right cloud provider or providers (some enterprises employ more than one) will depend upon several factors, not least of which is the…
Ten questions we all have but were afraid to ask While some HPC users are mature in their use of cloud, others are just getting started or kicking the tires. In this article, we address common questions about cloud computing…
It’s been over a decade since the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and nine years since Univa sponsored the first Grid Engine cluster in AWS. Since then, adoption of HPC cloud has grown, fuelled most recently by new technologies…
In May of this year we released a case study that provided an overview of a production hybrid cloud deployment at Mellanox Technologies. From my perspective, the timing couldn’t have been better, as just over a month later I had…
This week we are looking at the basic cloud scenarios you might employ in your HPC environment. As you will see, each configuration offers benefits in the areas of cost, performance, scalability and capacity. The scenario that is right for…
Five key considerations The use of cloud computing for high-performance workloads is on the rise. Most cloud providers now offer HPC nodes with state-of-the-art CPUs, GPUs, and high-performance storage and networking. Despite this, deciding whether to take the cloud-computing plunge…
