Toward an HPC Service-Oriented Hybrid Cloud Architecture Designed for Interactive Workflows
Event Type
Workshop
Interactive HPC
W
TimeFriday, 13 November 20203:10pm - 3:35pm EDT
LocationTrack 11
DescriptionWe detail Ludion, a service-oriented hybrid architecture, well-adapted to launch, monitor and steer interactive services running either on on-premise HPC resources, on user laptops and workstations or in the cloud. Based on AWS serverless components at virtually no cost, Ludion requires no special privileges. It consists of a catalog of services, a dashboard hosted in the cloud and a set of commands to install on the target resource. In the lifetime of a job, a user can register and publish new services on the dashboard. From this unique location, it is possible to trigger basic commands that are forwarded to the corresponding job. In this article, we expose several typical use cases for which Ludion was designed, and detail its implementation as well as the services already in place that rely on this architecture.