SuperCompCloud: 8th Symposium on Interoperability of Supercomputing and Cloud Technologies

Held in conjunction with SC'24, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. 

Time & Location 

November 22nd, room B207 of the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.  A map of the convention center is available. 

Please refer to the SC24 website for the most up to date information. 

Symposium Agenda

Session I

8.30am - 8.40am Welcome

8.40am - 9.25am            "The Africanus Radio Astronomy Ecosystem" by Dr. Simon Perkins of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa.

9.25am - 9.55am           "SLICES: A Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing and Communication Experimental Studies" by Dr. Christian Perez of Inria, France.

9.55am - 10.25am Break

Session II

10.25am - 11.10am "The Intersection of Sovereign AI and Cybersecurity: A National AI Supercomputing Research Resource Perspective" by Dr. Sadaf Alam of University of Bristol, UK.

11.10am - 11.40am "OpenCHAMI Cloud Design Goals" by Alex Lovell-Troy of Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.

11.40am - 12.00pm Q&A Session & Closing

Symposium Abstract and Topics

Exascale computing initiatives are expected to enable breakthroughs for multiple scientific disciplines. Increasingly these systems may utilize cloud technologies, enabling complex and distributed workflows that can improve not only scientific productivity, but accessibility of resources to a wide range of communities. Such an integrated and seamlessly orchestrated system for supercomputing and cloud technologies is indispensable for experimental facilities that have been experiencing unprecedented data growth rates. While a subset of high performance computing (HPC) services have been available within a public cloud environments, petascale and beyond data and computing capabilities are largely provisioned within HPC data centres using traditional, bare-metal provisioning services to ensure performance, scaling and cost efficiencies. At the same time, on-demand and interactive provisioning of services that are commonplace in cloud environments, remain elusive for leading supercomputing ecosystems. This workshop aims at bringing together a group of experts and practitioners from academia, national laboratories, and industry to discuss technologies, use cases and best practices in order to set a vision and direction for leveraging high performance, extreme-scale computing and on-demand cloud ecosystems. Topics of interest include tools and technologies enabling scientists for adopting scientific applications to cloud interfaces, interoperability of HPC and cloud resource management and scheduling systems, cloud and HPC storage convergence to allow a high degree of flexibility for users and community platform developers, continuous integration/deployment approaches, reproducibility of scientific workflows in distributed environment, and best practices for enabling X-as-a-Service model at scale while maintaining a range of security constraints.

This symposium will cover topics related to interoperability of supercomputing and cloud computing, networking and storage technologies that are being leveraged by use cases and research infrastructure providers with a goal to improve productivity and reproducibility of extreme-scale scientific workflows:

• • Virtualization for HPC e.g. virtual machines, containers, etc.

  • Storage systems for HPC and cloud technologies

  • On-demand and interactivity with performance, scaling and cost efficiencies

  • Resource management and scheduling systems for HPC and cloud technologies

  • Software defined infrastructure for high-end computing, storage and networking

  • Application environment, integration and deployment technologies

  • Secure, high-speed networking for integrated HPC and cloud ecosystems

  • Extreme data and compute workflows and use cases

  • Research infrastructure deployment use cases

  • Resiliency and reproducibility of complex and distributed workflows

  • Isolation and security within shared HPC environments

  • X-as-a-Service technologies with performance and scalability

  • Workflow orchestration using public cloud and HPC data centre resources

  • Authentication, authorization and accounting interoperability for HPC and cloud ecosystems

  • Workforce development for integrated HPC and cloud environments

Important Dates

• • Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: Early July 2024

  • Authors Notification: Late July 2024

  • Presentation material: October 2024

  • Workshop Date: November 2024

Extended Abstract Submission

Submissions will be done through the SC submission site (powered by Linklings): https://submissions.supercomputing.org 

All submissions must be in English and should fit in 2 to 4 pages using the IEEE conference format (double column, 10pt font). Submissions must be made as a single PDF file formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter) which includes all figures and references. For more details: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html 

The submitted abstract will go through a review process and will be evaluated according to four main criteria: the relevance of the work, its technical soundness, its originality/novelty and the quality of the presentation. 

At least one of the authors of each accepted abstract must register as a participant of the symposium and present the work at the symposium.

Workshop Committees 

Organizing Committee

Organizing Committee (supercompcloud@googlegroups.com)

• • David Y. Hancock, Indiana University

  • Winona G. Snapp-Childs, Indiana University

  • François Tessier, Inria

  • Sadaf Alam, University of Bristol

  • Maxime Martinasso, Swiss National Supercomputing Center

Committee members are currently being solicited for future events. If you would like to participate in the committee please contact the workshop organizers at supercompcloud@googlegroups.com.