Sponsorship from cloud provider

[JamieJQuinn]

At UCL in the UK we're trialing using cluster in the cloud to provide a scalable HPC cluster in the cloud (probably AWS) which we can add external learners to. It would be great to provide this to even more learners at different institutions (particularly those which might not have their own facility for teaching HPC) but UCL can't justify the cost of running this at a larger scale.

Do we have an existing agreement or sponsorship with a cloud provider to run HPC carpentries in the cloud or have there been discussions about such a thing?

[ocaisa]

@JamieJQuinn We've actually used a similar tool, Magic Castle, for a few workshops this year. I contribute to Magic Castle and I got some credits from AWS this year to help add EFA fabric support to that.

There's no general agreement or sponsorship though with the commercial providers. I do have a project with the Fenix Research Infrastructure (which is OpenStack-based and non-commercial/academic oriented) that does provide some resources. The project is called LearnHPC. It's not large but it does include GPU support and is definitely enough for an HPC-intro workshop. The idea with that project, in general, is to quickly spin-up event-specific clusters.