Marrying HPC and Cloud for Long Term Happiness

Traditional high performance computing (HPC) clusters, with deep job submission queues, by construction are always almost fully utilized. On the other hand, the cloud has time-varying workloads, and the cloud business model depends on being underutilized to instantly support all customer requests. A marriage of these two environments could provide additional resources to HPC users while offering increased utilization to the cloud. In this poster we present the frameworks we built to enable a successful symbiotic co-existence of HPC and the cloud and showcase the benefits achievable with a prototype deployment.