A Novel Approach to Deploying High Performance Computing Applications on Cloud Platform

摘要

Now people can run HPC applications on cloud platform and they do not need to own or maintain physical infrastructure. However, they have the burden of managing large pools of virtual machines (VMs), because cloud users today must manually instantiate, configure and maintain the virtual hosts. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to deploy HPC applications on cloud platform easily which integrates a message passing interface (MPI) based simple programming model and single system image (SSI) technology. By hiding the details of MPI applications and VMs cluster, the approach allows cloud users to execute MPI applications on VMs cluster as normal multi-process applications on a single machine. So cloud users are promised to create and maintain a single VM only to deploy and execute HPC applications on hundreds of VMs. The experimental results show that the approach can reduce the burden of deploying HPC applications on cloud platform greatly.