HPC + OpenStack = HPCaaS(HPC-as-a-Service)

Joseph GeorgeVP of Strategy, SUSE@jbgeorge

Generic HPC Cluster

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Mostly Share-Nothing

Specific, Niche Workloads

Tightly Coupled (RDMA)

Few, But Large Distributed Workloads

Generic OpenStack Cloud Instance

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MostlyShare-Everything

Generic Workloads

Loosely Coupled

Many Small Workloads

Yet… Strikingly Similar

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Highly Distributed

Large Storage / Data Pools

Resource Management Key

Performance Management

How OpenStack Enables HPC

Compute

• Workload Placement

• Multi-tenancy

• Applications

Storage

• Ephemeral

• Object

• Block

• File

Networking

• Internal networks

• Public networks

• Scalable

• APIs

Orchestration

• VM Infrastructure

• Container Infrastructure

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HPCaaS in the Real World• The Challenge: Provide IT resources to scientists

with strong high performance computing requirements rapidly with limited overhead

• The Solution: HPCaaS with SUSE OpenStack Cloud

• Addressing the Challenge: Scientists are now able to deploy applications by themselves, with IT adjusting resource allocation as needed

• Results: Users can now deploy services self service, with IT maintaining infrastructure

• Where are they now? Running in production for over one year with great success, now expanding into software-defined storage and containers

6“The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology and SUSE OpenStack Cloud”

DellEMC and SUSE

SUSE OpenStack Cloud- First Enterprise OpenStack Distribution- Long history of collaboration with HPC community,

including openHPC- Most of top 25 Supercomputers runs SUSE

- Additional HPC extension and module provide necessary tools/packages

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DellEMC- End-to-end workloads management- Data intensive compute and networking power- Deep analytics for research data- Global collaboration

- HPC Services- Many HPC blueprints and deployment guides

https://www.suse.com/partners/alliance/dell/@jbgeorge