scholarly journals HPC as a service: A naive Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza Ali Imran
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Commodity Hardware ◽  
Beowulf Clusters ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Special Expertise ◽  
Performance Computing

Applications like Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and even other Engineering and Scientific research requires a lot of computing power; making High-Performance Computing (HPC) an important field. But access to Supercomputers is out of range from the majority. Nowadays Supercomputers are actually clusters of computers usually made-up of commodity hardware. Such clusters are called Beowulf Clusters. The history of which goes back to 1994 when NASA built a Supercomputer by creating a cluster of commodity hardware. In recent times a lot of effort has been done in making HPC Clusters of even single board computers (SBCs). Although the creation of clusters of commodity hardware is possible but is a cumbersome task. Moreover, the maintenance of such systems is also difficult and requires special expertise and time. The concept of cloud is to provide on-demand resources that can be services, platform or even infrastructure and this is done by sharing a big resource pool. Cloud computing has resolved problems like maintenance of hardware and requirement of having expertise in networking etc. An effort is made of bringing concepts from cloud computing to HPC in order to get benefits of cloud. The main target is to create a system which can develop a capability of providing computing power as a service which to further be referred to as Supercomputer as a service. A prototype was made using Raspberry Pi (RPi) 3B and 3B+ Single Board Computers. The reason for using RPi boards was increasing popularity of ARM processors in the field of HPC

scholarly journals HPC as a service: A naive Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza Ali Imran
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Commodity Hardware ◽  
Beowulf Clusters ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Special Expertise ◽  
Performance Computing

Applications like Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and even other Engineering and Scientific research requires a lot of computing power; making High-Performance Computing (HPC) an important field. But access to Supercomputers is out of range from the majority. Nowadays Supercomputers are actually clusters of computers usually made-up of commodity hardware. Such clusters are called Beowulf Clusters. The history of which goes back to 1994 when NASA built a Supercomputer by creating a cluster of commodity hardware. In recent times a lot of effort has been done in making HPC Clusters of even single board computers (SBCs). Although the creation of clusters of commodity hardware is possible but is a cumbersome task. Moreover, the maintenance of such systems is also difficult and requires special expertise and time. The concept of cloud is to provide on-demand resources that can be services, platform or even infrastructure and this is done by sharing a big resource pool. Cloud computing has resolved problems like maintenance of hardware and requirement of having expertise in networking etc. An effort is made of bringing concepts from cloud computing to HPC in order to get benefits of cloud. The main target is to create a system which can develop a capability of providing computing power as a service which to further be referred to as Supercomputer as a service. A prototype was made using Raspberry Pi (RPi) 3B and 3B+ Single Board Computers. The reason for using RPi boards was increasing popularity of ARM processors in the field of HPC

ENABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN CLOUD: A REVIEW

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
Reena Saini ◽  
Nachiket Sainis
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Performance Computing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Desktop Computer ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
High Bandwidth ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Complex Science ◽  
Performance Computing ◽  
Very High

High Performance Computing (HPC) resulting whole computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than it could get in typical desktop computer or workstation. High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to solve complex science, engineering, and business problems using applications that require high bandwidth, enhanced networking, and very high compute capabilities. HPC's democratization has been driven particularly by cloud computing, which has given scientists access to supercomputing-like features as the pay as you go. This paper will provide an overview on benets, challenges and future of HPC in cloud.

Cloud Computing for Scientific Simulation and High Performance Computing

2013 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Adrian Jackson ◽  
Michèle Weiland
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Performance Computing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Parallel Programs ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
Scientific Simulations ◽  
Cloud Infrastructures ◽  
Performance Computing

This chapter describes experiences using Cloud infrastructures for scientific computing, both for serial and parallel computing. Amazon’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud computing resources were compared to traditional HPC resources to quantify performance as well as assessing the complexity and cost of using the Cloud. Furthermore, a shared Cloud infrastructure is compared to standard desktop resources for scientific simulations. Whilst this is only a small scale evaluation these Cloud offerings, it does allow some conclusions to be drawn, particularly that the Cloud can currently not match the parallel performance of dedicated HPC machines for large scale parallel programs but can match the serial performance of standard computing resources for serial and small scale parallel programs. Also, the shared Cloud infrastructure cannot match dedicated computing resources for low level benchmarks, although for an actual scientific code, performance is comparable.

Green Computing

2014 ◽  
pp. 248-260
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Performance Computing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Green Computing ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cloud Infrastructures ◽  
Performance Computing

Green computing is a contemporary research topic to address climate and energy challenges. In this chapter, the authors envision the duality of green computing with technological trends in other fields of computing such as High Performance Computing (HPC) and cloud computing on one hand and economy and business on the other hand. For instance, in order to provide electricity for large-scale cloud infrastructures and to reach exascale computing, we need huge amounts of energy. Thus, green computing is a challenge for the future of cloud computing and HPC. Alternatively, clouds and HPC provide solutions for green computing and climate change. In this chapter, the authors discuss this proposition by looking at the technology in detail.

High Performance Computing on Mobile Devices

2016 ◽  
pp. 334-348
Author(s):  
Atta ur Rehman Khan ◽  
Abdul Nasir Khan
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Performance Computing ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Mobile Cloud Computing ◽  
Computation Offloading ◽  
Mobile Cloud ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Performance Computing

Mobile devices are gaining high popularity due to support for a wide range of applications. However, the mobile devices are resource constrained and many applications require high resources. To cater to this issue, the researchers envision usage of mobile cloud computing technology which offers high performance computing, execution of resource intensive applications, and energy efficiency. This chapter highlights importance of mobile devices, high performance applications, and the computing challenges of mobile devices. It also provides a brief introduction to mobile cloud computing technology, its architecture, types of mobile applications, computation offloading process, effective offloading challenges, and high performance computing application on mobile devises that are enabled by mobile cloud computing technology.

A Hybrid Resource Reservation Method for Workflows in Clouds

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Tyng-Yeu Liang ◽  
Fu-Chun Lu ◽  
Jun-Yao Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Resource Reservation ◽  
Scientific Workflows ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Gpu Architecture ◽  
Performance Computing ◽  
Oriented System

QoS and energy consumption are two important issues for Cloud computing. In this paper, the authors propose a hybrid resource reservation method to address these two issues for scientific workflows in the high-performance computing Clouds built on hybrid CPU/GPU architecture. As named, this method reserves proper CPU or GPU for executing different jobs in the same workflow based on the profile of execution time and energy consumption of each resource-to-program pair. They have implemented the proposed resource reservation method on a real service-oriented system. The experimental results show that the proposed resource reservation method can effectively maintain the QoS of workflows while simultaneously minimizing the energy consumption of executing the workflows.

scholarly journals Viability of Cloud Computing for Real-Time Numerical Weather Prediction

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1985-1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Siuta ◽  
Gregory West ◽  
Henryk Modzelewski ◽  
Roland Schigas ◽  
Roland Stull
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Performance Computing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Numerical Weather Prediction ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Cloud Platform ◽  
Numerical Weather ◽  
Performance Computing

Abstract As cloud-service providers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft decrease costs and increase performance, numerical weather prediction (NWP) in the cloud will become a reality not only for research use but for real-time use as well. The performance of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model on the Google Cloud Platform is tested and configurations and optimizations of virtual machines that meet two main requirements of real-time NWP are found: 1) fast forecast completion (timeliness) and 2) economic cost effectiveness when compared with traditional on-premise high-performance computing hardware. Optimum performance was found by using the Intel compiler collection with no more than eight virtual CPUs per virtual machine. Using these configurations, real-time NWP on the Google Cloud Platform is found to be economically competitive when compared with the purchase of local high-performance computing hardware for NWP needs. Cloud-computing services are becoming viable alternatives to on-premise compute clusters for some applications.

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