The HPC integration Working Group (WG) objective is to assess and plan the technical integration of HPC systems into the EGI Federation focusing on the following areas:
EOSC-compliant federated user access management on HPC systems.
Availability and reliability monitoring of federated HPC sites.
Integrated usage accounting across HPC, cloud and HTC sites.
Access to distributed, federated data from HPC systems.
Portable container-based applications for cloud compute, HTC and HPC systems
Activities
To support this goal, the WG builds on the existing work from EGI-ACE, C-SCALE and interTwin projects to carry out the following activities:
Perform technology scouting to identify available technical solutions to integrate HPC with Cloud and HTC for enabling the execution of user workloads on top of heterogeneous resources;
Deal with user communities to gather requirements and recurrent use cases;
Identify gaps of the current solutions with a focus on those from the technology providers participating in the WG;
Discuss and plan enhancements for technical providers.
HPC WG Composition
EGI is engaging different types of stakeholders to accomplish the objectives of this WG:
User communities: which will have a forum to present their requirements and use cases; to test and validate solutions;
Technical providers: which can benefit of direct contacts with large communities to drive the evolution of their solutions;
EGI infrastructure providers with HPC capabilities and other HPC providers: which can deploy the technologies delivered in the context of the WG to facilitate the execution of the combined workflows.
Duration and outcome
The WG has a duration of one year (which can be extended) and its main activity is to produce a blueprint for the definition of a new EGI HPC service supported by the Federation members.