Early Experiences with Tight Integration of Kubernetes in an HPC Environment
Trey Dockendorf, Troy Baer, Doug Johnson · Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2022
The Ohio Supercomputer Center has deployed a Kubernetes cluster with tight integration to a high performance computing (HPC) environment. This deployment leverages existing file systems for data sharing between HPC systems and Kubernetes objects, monitoring, account management, resource management, and accounting systems. This paper describes the motivation and overall design, the novel methods for the implementation, and the applications supported by this new resource. It also presents a short description of future work and some of the questions raised by this design.