Title
Deployment Of Elastic Virtual Hybrid Clusters Across Cloud Sites
Abstract
Virtual clusters are widely used computing platforms than can be deployed in multiple cloud platforms. The ability to dynamically grow and shrink the number of nodes has paved the way for customised elastic computing both for High Performance Computing and High Throughput Computing workloads. However, elasticity is typically restricted to a single cloud site, thus hindering the ability to provision computational resources from multiple geographically distributed cloud sites. To this aim, this paper introduces an architecture of open-source components that coherently deploy a virtual elastic cluster across multiple cloud sites to perform large-scale computing. These hybrid virtual elastic clusters are automatically deployed and configured using an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach on a distributed hybrid testbed that spans different organizations, including on-premises and public clouds, supporting automated tunneling of communications across the cluster nodes with advanced VPN topologies. The results indicate that cluster-based computing of embarrassingly parallel jobs can benefit from hybrid virtual clusters that aggregate computing resources from multiple cloud back-ends and bring them together into a dedicated, albeit virtual network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s10723-021-09543-5
JOURNAL OF GRID COMPUTING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cloud Computing, Network virtualization, Cluster computing
Journal
19
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1570-7873
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Miguel Caballer117216.90
M. Antonacci200.68
Zdenek Sustr312.09
Michele Perniola400.34
Germán Moltó517118.92