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Oluwatumininu Oguntola

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Anvil is a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at Purdue University, more commonly known as a supercomputer, built in partnership with Dell and AMD to cater to the increasing computational requirements of researchers across the nation. Funded by the National Science Foundation under the Advanced Computing Systems & Services program, Anvil is a large capacity system, comprising 1000 nodes connected via a 100Gbps interconnect; making it capable of 5.3 petaflops peak performance and performing complex calculations and simulations that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible, through the use of conventional computing resources. Apart from being a typical supercomputer, Anvil also contains an innovative Kubernetes- based academic cloud composable subsystem for the deployment of persistent custom services like Jupyter notebooks, databases, and science gateway applications to match the diverse needs of researchers. The system's flexibility allows researchers to deploy and manage these services to complement their workflows and run containerized applications without any external assistance. This research project aimed to expand the subsystem's capabilities by extending workflows from the academic cloud to the commercial cloud (specifically Azure) through the use of cloud-based Kubernetes clusters while preserving the user experience. This will enable users to utilize some of the most notable advantages of scaling their workflows into the commercial cloud without the use, or complexity, of additional tools or interfaces. For instance, users will be able to employ a larger range of cloud node configurations than available on Anvil, support the elastic scaling of workloads with fluctuating demand, and utilize cloud-hosted datasets.

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Purdue University / 2023

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Oluwatumininu Oguntola