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Henry Olson

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Anvil is a high performance computing (HPC) resource at Purdue University that is used by researchers from around the country for science and engineering applications across a variety of disciplines. Public cloud providers such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google offer a wide range of computing resources at almost unlimited scale. This project will extend Anvil's capabilities by allowing researchers to seamlessly burst scientific workflows from Anvil to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Through this hybrid cloud integration, we can support researchers with cloud credits, provide researchers access to additional compute resources to meet deadlines and utilize alternative accelerators such as FPGAs not provided directly by Anvil. In this project, we created the infrastructure that will allow Anvil to operate in a hybrid cloud environment. This includes a way for Microsoft Azure to deploy virtual machines based on Anvil compute nodes, a way for Slurm (Anvil's resource manager) to communicate between on-prem and Microsoft Azure resources, and a way to keep track of credit usage.

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Purdue University / 2023

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Henry Olson