Awesome Cloud HPC

A curated list of cloud HPC.

Contents

• Solution
• Management Tool
• IaaS-Server
• IaaS-Network
• IaaS-Storage
• IaaS-Image
• PaaS
• CAE and EDA ISV
• SaaS
• Job Scheduler
• Blog, Documentation, YouTube
• Repository

Solution

• Amazon Web Services
• Google GCP
• HUAWEI Cloud
• IBM Cloud
• Microsoft Azure
• Naver NCP
• Oracle OCI
• Samsung SDS SCP

Management Tool

• Alibaba E-HPC - Alibaba Cloud's computing service for resource management, job submission, performance analysis, and VNC in E-HPC console.

• AWS ParallelCluster - Open source cluster management tool for deploying and managing HPC clusters (Repository).

• AWS ParallelCluster UI - Front-end for AWS ParallelCluster.

• Azure CycleCloud - Secure and flexible cloud HPC and Big Compute environments.

• Azure HPC OnDemand Platform - Azure-based HPC cluster solution with features like Terraform, Ansible, Packer integration, job scheduling, autoscaling, and monitoring (Repository, Marketplace).

• CloudyCluster - Turn-Key Cloud HPC elastic orchestration with a familiar hpc look and feel.

• Cluster in the Cloud - Multi cloud solution that uses Terraform for infrastructure setup, Ansible for software configuration, and Slurm with custom Python scripts for dynamic node management in cloud-based HPC environment.

• Cluster Toolkit - Google Cloud's open-source software for deploying AI/ML and high-performance computing environments on GCP, featuring customizable Terraform modules and Packer integration. (Repository).

• Flight Environment - The Flight User Suite for improved HPC access through CLI tools, the Flight Web Suite as a web interface for HPC end-users, and the Flight Admin Tools for administrative HPC environment configuration.

• HPC-NOW - The platform aims to simplify the process of starting and managing HPC workloads in the cloud.

• JedAI Cloud - Optimized HPC stacks enable easy cluster management and on-demand HPC through pre-integrated solutions, delivering bare metal infrastructure, virtualized services, and containerized apps via a single management interface by Define Tech.

• KT Cloud HPC - KT Cloud's HPC management product integrating Altair's solutions.

• Magic Castle - Multi-cloud HPC cluster solution that leverages Terraform and Puppet for deployment, featuring job scheduling with Slurm and over 3000 research software applications.

• Microsoft HPC Pack - Creation and management tool of HPC clusters, enabling the use of Windows or Linux nodes on-premises and cloud resources in Azure.

• OCI HPC Cluster - Automated HPC cluster deployment on OCI.

• OCI HPC File System (HFS) - Solution for deploying various HPC file servers on OCI. Automated HPC cluster deployment on OCI.

• SCP HPC Cluster - HPC cluster environment on SCP.

• Scyld Cloud Manager - Comprehensive management platform to cloud-enable Enterprise HPC.

• TrinityX - Next-gen open-source HPC, AI, and cloud platform offering customizable installations with efficient provisioning, SLURM/OpenPBS, OpenHPC, and more for modern cluster management.

IaaS-Server

• Amazon EC2 Hpc7g - HPC-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton3E processors.

• Amazon EC2 Hpc7a - HPC-optimized instances powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors.

• Amazon EC2 Hpc6id - HPC-optimized instances powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

• Amazon EC2 P5 - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA H100 GPUs.

• Amazon EC2 P4 - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA A100(80Gb,40Gb) GPUs.

• Amazon EC2 P3 - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA V100 GPUs.

• Amazon EC2 G5 - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA A10G GPUs and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.

• Azure HBv4-series - HPC-optimized instances powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors.

• Azure HBv3-series - HPC-optimized instances powered by 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors.

• Azure HBv2-series - HPC-optimized instances powered by 2nd Generation AMD EPYC processors.

• Azure HB-series - HPC-optimized instances powered by 1st Generation AMD EPYC processors.

• Azure HC-series - HPC-optimized instances powered by 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

• Azure HX-series - Optimized instances for workloads that require significant memory capacity with twice the memory capacity as HBv4.

• Azure NDm H100 v5-series - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA H100 GPUs.

• Azure NDm A100 v4-series - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA A100(80Gb) GPUs and 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors.

• Azure NC A100 v4-series - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA A100(40Gb) GPUs and 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors.

• Azure NCv3-series - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA V100 GPUs.

• Azure NCasT4_v3-series - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA T4 GPUs and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs.

• GCP H3 machine-series - CPU instances powerd by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

• GCP C2D machine-series - CPU instances powerd by 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors.

• GCP C2 machine-series - CPU instances powerd by 2nd Geration Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

• GCP A3 machine-series - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA H100 GPUs.

• GCP A2 machine-series - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA A100(80Gb,40Gb) GPUs.

• GCP G2 machine-series - GPU instances powerd by NVIDIA L4 GPUs.

• Super Computing Cluster - Based on ECS Bare Metal Instance powered by Alibaba Cloud, utilizes high-speed RDMA-based connections to enhance network performance and acceleration ratio in large-scale clusters, providing high-bandwidth and low-latency networks.

IaaS-Network

• Azure InfiniBand - RDMA capable HB-series and N-series VMs communicate over the InfiniBand network.

• Compute Clusters(Cluster Networks with Instance Pools) - Group of high performance computing (HPC), GPU, or optimized instances that are connected with a high-bandwidth, ultra low-latency network.

• Elastic Fabric Adapter - Network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale.

IaaS-Storage

• Amazon FSx for Lustre - Fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system.
• Amazon FSx for OpenZFS - Fully managed shared storage built on the popular OpenZFS file system.
• Azure HPC Cache File caching for HPC on Azure.
• Azure Managed Lustre - Managed, pay-as-you-go file system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads.
• Azure NetApp Files - Enterprise-grade Azure file shares, powered by NetApp.
• GCP File Store - High-performance, fully managed file storage.
• GCP Parallel Store - Based on Intel DAOS and delivers up to 6.3x greater read throughput performance compared to competitive Lustre scratch offerings.

IaaS-Image

• Azhpc-images - Installation scripts for HPC images in Azure Marketplace, specifically CentOS-HPC, Ubuntu-HPC, and AlmaLinux-HPC.

• Flight Solo - HPC-ready, platform-agnostic image approach to deploying HPC resources powerd by alcesflight.

• GCP HPC-ready VM - CentOS 7.9 or Rocky Linux 8 based VM image that is optimized for tightly coupled HPC workloads Marketplace CentOS 7 Marketplace Rocky Linux 8.

• HPCBOX - Desktop-centric, intelligent workflow cloud HPC platform for automating and executing your application pipelines (Marketplace).

• HPC Pack 2019(Cloud Infrastructure Services) - Microsoft HPC Pack 2019 image powered by Cloud Infrastructure Services (Marketplace(Azure), Marketplace(AWS), Marketplace(GCP)).

• NVIDIA Virtual Machine Images - Operating system environment for running NVIDIA GPU accelerated software in the cloud.

PaaS

• AWS Batch - Fully managed batch computing service.

• AWS Parallel Computing Service - Managed service for HPC cluster deployment and scaling on AWS using Slurm.

• Batch(Azure) - Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management.

• Batch(GCP) - Fully managed batch service to schedule, queue, and execute batch jobs on Google's infrastructure.

• Batch Compute - Cloud service for massive simultaneous batch processing on Alibaba Cloud.

• Covalent - Pythonic workflow orchestration platform for scaling workloads from your laptop to any compute backend (Repository).

• NICE DCV - High-performance remote display protocol that provides customers with a secure way to deliver remote desktops and application streaming.

• NICE EnginFrame - Unified interface to submit jobs for both on-premises and cloud workflow.

• Research and Engineering Studio - Open source, easy-to-use web-based portal for administrators to create and manage secure cloud-based research and engineering environments on AWS.

• Rntier Cloud - R&D cloud platform enabling easy and quick access to complex HPC simulations, vGPU-based remote 3D design, and multi-GPU deep learning environments via a web browser.

• Scyld Cloud Central™ - Fully managed, cloud-based, end-to-end solution for high performance computing that makes it easier and faster for end-users, developers, and data scientists to deploy pure HPC, pure AI, and converged HPC/AI workloads on high-performance clusters.

• Scyld ClusterWare - Intelligent suite of management functionality, including node provisioning, image customization, and cluster monitoring, while serving as a platform for additional software and schedulers.

• Scyld Cloud Workstation - Unparalleled performance and a breadth of features that allow it to stand out as a solution for remote access.

• Skypilot - Framework for running LLMs, AI, and batch jobs on any cloud, offering maximum cost savings, highest GPU availability, and managed execution (Repository).

SaaS

• CloudHPC - On-demand cloud computing for CAE engineering simulations powered by CFD FEA SERVICE.

• dicehub - Real-time collaborative CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations platform which simplifies your engineering workflow, offers massive parallel scaling and runs in web browser.

• EPIC - Primarily for CFD applications, available on the web and created by Zenotech, which also includes Zenotech's ZCFD.

• Kaleidosim - Enabling of browser-based access to HPC software through advanced cloud orchestration technology.

• Luminary Cloud - A cloud-based, pay-per-use SaaS simulation platform with a fast, GPU-powered, cloud-native CFD solver and comprehensive high-fidelity capabilities.

• Nimbix - A comprehensive cloud computing solution powered by Atos, offering access to the HyperHub Application Marketplace with over 1,000 high-performance applications and workflows for diverse industries (Repository).

• OnScale Solve - The cloud engineering simulation platform built by engineers for engineers.

• Rescale - Hybrid-cloud platform offering turnkey HPC with extensive(1000+) ecosystem integrations and API connections to major PLM, SPDM, and data storage systems(Repository).

• Sabalcore - User-friendly, pay-as-you-go high performance computing cloud service with a full-featured, light-weight client that doesn't require a browser.

• Scala Computing - Optimized, automated cloud-based HPC resource management platform with integrated network simulation and EDA tools, offering flexible, on-demand computing, secure workflows, and global infrastructure access.

• Simscale - Cloud-based computer-aided engineering (CAE) software for computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, and thermal simulations, using open source codes in its backend (Repository(SDK)).

• SyncHPC - Powerful and flexible hybrid HPC and VDI management platform that provides a comprehensive solution for managing high-performance computing (HPC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) resources.

• TAESUNG Cloud - Offering Ansys applications as a service in a cloud-based SaaS.

CAE and EDA ISV

• 3DEXPERIENCE platform on ther cloud - Complete suite of industry-leading apps and software(CATIA, SIMULIA, DELMIA, 3DEXCITE, etc.) powered by Dassalut Systèmes.

• Altair One - Cloud Gateway offering dynamic and collaborative access to simulation and data analytics technology, along with scalable HPC and cloud resources.

• Altair Unlimited - A turnkey, state-of-the-art private appliance available in both on-premises and cloud-based formats, offering unlimited access to a wide range of Altair HyperWorks solver software.

• Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure - Cloud-based simulation solution available on the Azure Marketplace, offering fast, scalable access to Ansys applications (Marketplace).

• Ansys Cloud Direct - Cloud-based interactive workstations and HPC clusters, with flexible licensing that can be accessed from desktop.

• Ansys Gateway by AWS - Cloud-based solution for managing Ansys Simulation & CAD/CAE developments via a web browser.

• Cadence OnCloud Platform - SaaS software platform for all your system design and simulation needs that can operate on any hardware, removing the requirement to run and maintain expensive infrastructure hardware.

• Cloud Passport - Cloud-ready tools powered by Cadence that have been optimized for use in customers' own cloud environment.

• Managed Cloud Service - EDA-optimized platform powered by Cadence that provides a fully integrated and proven cloud environment to jump-start product design, verification, and implementation.

• Palladium and Protium Cloud - Emulation and prototyping offering provides pre-silicon hardware system verification and debug powered by Cadence.

• Simcenter Cloud HPC - Part of the Xcelerator as a Service(XaaS) offering powered by Siemens, offers increased flexibility and scalability for CFD simulations with no additional setup needed.

• Synopsys Cloud - Platform that enables delivery of EDA tools, IP and infrastructure for end-to-end chip design through a browser.

Job Scheduler

• Altair Access - HPC Job Submission Portal for Researchers and Engineers.

• Altair Control - HPC Administrator's Control Center for Managing, Optimizing, and Forecasting Resources with seamless cloud bursting capabilities.

• Altair Grid Engine - Distributed Resource Management and Optimization.

• Altair HPCWorks - High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Platform by Altair.

• Altair NavOps - Cloud Migration, Automation, and Spend Management for HPC.

• Altair PBS-Professional - Industry-leading Workload Manager and Job Scheduler for HPC and High-throughput Computing.

• IBM Spectrun LSF Suites - Workload management platform and job scheduler for HPC with dynamic HPC cloud support for all major cloud providers (Repository).

• Slurm on Google Cloud Platform - Open-source software solution that enables setting up Slurm clusters on Google Cloud Platform with ease.

• Slurm Power Saving Guide - Suspending and resuming nodes as needed, and supports cloud integration with providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure for workload management and cloud bursting.

Resource

• AWS HPC Blog

• Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

• Day 1 HPC - AWS engineering's hpc communutiy site.

• GCP HPC Blog

• HPC Tech Shorts - Day 1 HPC YouTube Channel.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog(Performance Solutions)

Recipes

• Azure HPC - Easy automation scripts for building a HPC environment in Azure.

• Cloud MPI - Collection of scripts for optimizing MPI performance in tightly coupled HPC workloads on GCP Compute Engines.

• Dynamic EC2 budget control - Dynamic EC2 cores allocation limit for each business unit (BU), automatically adapted according to a past time frame (e.g. one week) spending on AWS Parallel Cluster.

• HPC Recipes for AWS - Example recipes that demonstrate how to build HPC systems using AWS ParallelCluster, Research and Engineering Studio on AWS, and other AWS products.

Azure CycleCloud

• Azure CycleCloud Slurm
• Azure CycleCloud PBSPro
• Azure CycleCloud LSF
• Azure CyclcCloud Beegfs
• Azure CycleCloud Symphony
• Azure CycleCloud GridEngine
• Azure CycleCloud HPC Pack
• Azure CycleCloud Autoscaling Library