Integration: the HPC-Cloud infrastructure Clause Samples
The Integration: the HPC-Cloud infrastructure clause defines how high-performance computing (HPC) resources are combined with cloud-based infrastructure within the scope of the agreement. It typically outlines the technical and operational processes for connecting on-premises HPC systems with cloud services, such as data transfer protocols, resource allocation, and interoperability standards. This clause ensures that both parties understand the mechanisms for seamless integration, thereby facilitating efficient resource utilization and minimizing compatibility issues between different computing environments.
Integration: the HPC-Cloud infrastructure. At this point it is clear that a seamless integration of computing infrastructures of different sizes in a cloud environment is a must. Exascale and cloud computing are not isolated technologies. Since a few years ago, and in an almost exponential reaction, almost all cloud providers are including HPC instances among their available offers (notably Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or Google Cloud). Moreover, since very recently all of them provide tools to integrate the cloud provider's infrastructures with on-premises' data centers to create a unified environment. Based on the pyramidal scheme of Figure 1, which describes the anatomy of a supercomputer, Figure 2 pictures HPC-Cloud integration. Pyramids of different sizes (from single nodes to exascale supercomputers) are combined with a cloud orchestration, to which the user gains access through a web-based frontend. This integration combines the best of both worlds in a highly democratised fashion, making computer power accessible to the largest possible number of researchers. It is worth remarking that by facing exascale and cloud computing challenges simultaneously, CompBioMed is providing a large corpus of scientific and technology research about the deployment of simulation applications on HPC-Cloud infrastructure.