Understand the benefits and challenges of using cloud computing for high performance computing (HPC) workloads. This online course provides an advanced, graduate-level introduction to using cloud computing for high performance computing (HPC) workloads.

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The course will cover a wide range of topics from cloud architecture and infrastructure supporting HPC to the business opportunities that are enabled by HPC in the cloud.

What topics will you cover?

The following topics will be covered in the course:

- Virtualization and Containerization

- Parallel Computing Frameworks

- Scaling

- HPC in the Cloud Use Cases

- Cloud Service Orchestration and Resource Scheduling

- Cloud Infrastructure for Supporting Heterogeneous Resources

- CloudLightning Approach: Architecture Overview

- Resource Management in CloudLightning

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Discuss the range of activities associated with High Performance Computing and with Cloud Computing

- Describe the differences in ethos between HPC and Cloud

- Describe how the HPC and Cloud design spaces can be merged

- Identify the challenges of supporting high performance hardware in the cloud

- Report on how the cloud is evolving to become heterogeneous

- Explain the challenges associated with Resource Management at scale

- Discuss various techniques for Service Orchestration in the cloud

- Reflect on the advantages of using self-organization for Resource Management at scale

- Reflect on how successfully HPC workloads are being supported in the cloud