Virtualizing the Stampede2 Supercomputer with Applications to HPC in the Cloud
W. Cyrus Proctor, Mike Packard, Anagha Jamthe, Richard Cardone, Joseph Stubbs · 2018
Methods developed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are described and demonstrated for automating the construction of an elastic, virtual cluster emulating the Stampede2 high performance computing (HPC) system. The cluster can be built and/or scaled in a matter of minutes on the Jetstream self-service cloud system and shares many properties of the original Stampede2, including: i) common identity management, ii) access to the same file systems, iii) equivalent software application stack and module system, iv) similar job scheduling interface via Slurm.