The HPC integration Working Group (WG) focus is to assess and plan the technical integration of HPC systems into the EGI Federation.
Activities
To support this goal, the WG will carry out the following activities
Perform a 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 assess for each HPC use case the best solution available and derive technical objectives to fulfil a pilot implementation in the planned timescale, taking into account the available resources.