A Best-of-Both-Worlds of HPC and Cloud

This is the Converged Computing working space. It includes definitions, projects, and eventually will also include a CiSE Special Issue on converged computing.

Anticipated for mid 2024

Major trends have brought the cloud and high performance computing (HPC) communities closer together: the maturation of cloud technologies has shifted focus toward running workloads efficiently, and composite scientific workflows and resource heterogeneity and dynamism have revealed the limitations of traditional HPC resource and workflow management. It has become clear that the initially disparate communities have much to benefit in working together. This special issue aims to bridge the gap between HPC and cloud to discuss work in converged computing – the collaborative space between these traditionally separate communities – to develop novel technologies and applications. These hybrid technologies might span the gamut from automation, workflows, containerization, to software development and deployment and testing. This is a timely topic as collaborative work is happening to a greater degree that combines approaches from high performance computing with cloud-native computing.

• Vanessa Sochat, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Daniel Milroy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Claudia Misale, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Jakob Luettgau, University of Tennessee Knoxville
• Evan Bollig, Amazon Web Services
• Bill Magro, Google

We use the all-contributors tool to generate a contributors graphic below.

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The original definitions were written by:

• Vanessa Sochat, LLNL
• Daniel Milroy, LLNL
• Tapasya Patki, LLNL
• Claudia Misale (IBM Research)
• Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories
• Paula Olaya (University of Tennessee)
• Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee)
• Jakob Luettgau (previously University of Tennessee)

And after this set, discussion moved into a Google Document that was open for community contribution, and discussion and work on the terms will continue on this site, with commit history much better representing contribution. I (@vsoch) started the document and definitions realizing that the two communities were not communicating well, and hoping to work on that. If you'd like to further work on the terms or site content we welcome your contribution!

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