Enabling High-Performance Computing as a Service

AbdelBaky, Moustafa; Parashar, Manish; Kim, Hyunjoo; Jordan, Kirk E.; Sachdeva, Vipin; Sexton, James; Jamjoom, Hani; Shae, Zon-Yin; Pencheva, Gergina; Tavakoli, Reza; Wheeler, Mary F.

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AbdelBaky, Moustafa
Parashar, Manish
Kim, Hyunjoo
Jordan, Kirk E.
Sachdeva, Vipin
Sexton, James
Jamjoom, Hani
Shae, Zon-Yin
Pencheva, Gergina
Tavakoli, Reza
Wheeler, Mary F.

Date

2012-10

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Abstract

With the right software infrastructure, clouds can provide scientists with as a service access to high-performance computing resources. An award-winning prototype framework transforms the Blue Gene/P system into an elastic cloud to run a representative HPC application. © 2012 IEEE.

Citation

AbdelBaky M, Parashar M, Kim H, Jordan KE, Sachdeva V, et al. (2012) Enabling High-Performance Computing as a Service. Computer 45: 72–80. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2012.293.

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This research is supported in part by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) via grant number IIP 0758566 and byan IBM Faculty Award, and was conducted under the auspicesof Rutgers University’s NSF Cloud and AutonomicComputing Center. The researchers from the Universityof Texas at Austin were partially supported by the USDepartment of Energy’s Office of Science and Office ofBasic Energy Sciences. The Center for Frontiers of SubsurfaceEnergy Security (CFSES) is a DOE Energy FrontierResearch Center, under contract no. DE-SC0001114. Theauthors gratefully thank King Abdullah University of Scienceand Technology for the use of computer time at itsSupercomputing Laboratory.