Azure-based Hybrid Cloud Extension to Campus Clusters
Sam Weekly, Zoey Mertes, Erik S. Gough, Preston Smith · Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2022
We provide an overview of recent successes integrating and using Microsoft Azure public cloud resources for scientific computing at Purdue University, including benchmarking efforts for new processor architectures and a hybrid cloud extension to on-campus computing resources. The architecture of the hybrid cloud extension is described, which allows users to seamlessly burst workloads from Purdue community clusters to the Azure cloud. We also cover two scientific computing use cases demonstrating bursting capabilities using 3rd Gen. AMD EPYC ”Milan” based HBv3 Azure instances.