Evaluation of HPC Applications on Cloud Resources
Project Information
- Discipline
- Electrical and Related Engineering (106)
- Orientation
- Research
We will explore the performance of traditional HPC applications and benchmarks on Cloud platforms vs. HPC specific infrastructure. We will evaluate a series of synthetic benchmarks related to flop, memory bandwidth, and network performance for MPI, as well as popular HPC applications. Comparing FutureGrid resource performance to comparable Xsede and local resources we hope to derive recommendations for to researchers which platforms should be approached based on application need.
Intellectual MeritUnderstand and evaluate resources from a national resource portfolio (FutureGrid, Xsede, AWS), to build an understanding of which resources provide the most impact to given HPC research needs withing a reasonable economic model.
Broader ImpactsThe communities better understanding of where Cloud resources fit into a national resource portfolio for users of HPC applications should facilitate better resource matching with computational need speeding discovery and enable higher researcher productivity.
Project Contact
- Project Lead
- Brock Palen (brockp)
- Project Manager
- Brock Palen (brockp)
- Project Members
- Andrew Caird, Benjamin Wang, Alec Ten Harmsel, Matthew Britt, Russell Dekema, Bennet Fauber, Matt McLean, Allison McDonald
Resource Requirements
- Hardware System
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- Not sure
FutureGrid will work as the base comparison for the impact of running in a Cloud/Visualized environment.
Scale of UseA few VM's on unique nodes (for network effects) for a few hours over several days.
Project Timeline
- Submitted
- 12/11/2013 - 20:42