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SURFsara HPC Cloud documentation

NOTE:

This wiki collects the documentation for the HPC Cloud at SURFsara. The documentation pages here are heavily under construction and you can expect frequent changes. We welcome your comments or corrections at [email protected] or see the bottom of this page on how to contribute directly to help us improve the documentation.

Operational

• Maintenance calendar HPC Cloud

Basics

• Introduction to HPC Cloud
• Estimate your resources
• User Interface
• General start
• Access your Virtual Machine

Advanced Topics

General

• Customise your Virtual Machine
  • General options
  • Storage options
  • Network options
  • OS Booting options
  • Input/Output options
  • Context options
  • Other options
• Contextualization
• A Virtual Machine from Scratch
  • CentOS using an ISO
  • Fedora using their ready-made images
• Virtual Machine states
• Sharing OpenNebula Objects
• Install Windows
• Licences
• User management

GPU

• Attaching a GPU to a VM
• Deep learning use case
• Remote GPU visualization

Disk Images

• Image Storage
• Image Persistence
• Extra storage: datablocks
• Scratch Disk Images
• Download an image
• Create an Image on your own laptop
• Create a copy of a disk in a running VM

Networks

• Virtual Network
• Lightpaths

Security

NOTE:

You are strongly advised to set up your own firewall inside your virtual machines. OpenNebula offers now the so-called Security Groups instead of the old Network filters. However, they do not work in the current implementation, so we are pursuing other ways to provide a form of external firewall.

• Installing fail2ban

Inside the VM

• MySQL server
• Grid Storage
• Pilot Jobs
• NFS – Share Data between Virtual Machines
• SoftDrive

Automation

• Getting started with the XML-RPC API

AppMarket

• AppMarket Appliances Configuration

Troubleshooting

• VM not reacting to Shutdown

Tutorials

• HPC Cloud workshop 2016-06-15 (part of the UvA HPC and Big Data course)
• SURF Research Bootcamp 2016-04-21
• TUDelft workshop 2016-04-13
• HPC Cloud workshop 2016-01-25 (part of the UvA HPC and Big Data course)
• UNESCO-IHE workshop - 11 Dec 2015
• Surfcursus - 15 Oct 2015

Service implementation

• Available resources
• Resource usage [⚠ WARNING: under construction]

Contributing to the documentation

If you have any comments, please let us know by sending us an e-mail at [email protected]. Alternatively, you are welcome to contribute to this documentation directly. For this, you can fork our repository on GitHub and submit a pull request to inform us of your changes.

Please find our contribution guidelines before more information about forking, contributing updates, bug fixes, or other corrections.