Effortless HPC: Simplifying Cluster Environments on Google Cloud with the Google Cluster Toolkit
October 21, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Online
October 21, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Online
About the Session
High-Performance Computing (HPC) on the cloud offers massive scale and flexibility, but configuring and managing these complex environments can be a significant barrier. The Google Cluster Toolkit is designed to remove this complexity, empowering researchers and engineers to deploy optimal HPC clusters quickly and efficiently.
In this presentation, Google's Ilias Kastardis will provide a comprehensive overview of the toolkit. He will demonstrate how it automates and simplifies the end-to-end process—from initial configuration and deployment to runtime usage and tear-down. Attendees will learn how to leverage the toolkit to spend less time on infrastructure management and more time accelerating their critical research and workloads.
Speaker
Ilias Kastardis
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Google
Ilias Kastardis is a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Google. With over a decade of experience in high-performance computing and cloud infrastructure, he specializes in designing and implementing large-scale computational environments for research and enterprise clients. At Google, he focuses on the Google Cloud HPC portfolio, helping customers simplify their operations and achieve breakthrough results.