Fuzzball Federation From CIQ Optimizes Deployment of AI and Performance-Intensive Workloads Across Regions, Clouds and Data Centers
CIQ Fuzzball eases orchestration of complex analytical jobs in the cloud with availability on AWS.
March 27, 2025, Reno, Nev. - CIQ today announced the availability of federation capabilities in Fuzzball, their performance-intensive computing platform. This release allows engineering teams and business analysts to easily connect, manage, and share compute resources for all performance-intensive workloads (HPC and AI) that need to be deployed globally, across different sites, and even across hybrid/on-prem and public cloud infrastructures. Further, the team has also made the CIQ Fuzzball platform available on AWS, providing both easier consumption and improved facilitation of elastic cloud computing resources.
Engineers and analysts traditionally have spent significant time managing deployments for HPC and AI workloads, often forced to manage the necessary virtual resources as well as the physical infrastructure. Introduced last year, CIQ Fuzzball is already at work helping these individuals define, deploy and manage complex analytical jobs across these disparate compute resources, freeing them to focus on solving problems rather than spending valuable time managing infrastructure. Often, however, the virtual resources and physical infrastructure they require can also span clusters, availability zones, regions, geographies and even clouds and this has been a challenge.
The new federation capabilities in Fuzzball address the complexities of hybrid infrastructure head-on. Now, organizations can define resource pools across zones, regions and clouds, and Fuzzball intelligently deploys jobs to an appropriate cluster based on workload requirements. Fuzzball evaluates the compute, data and storage requirements of the workflow against the resources available and then dispatches the workflow to a suitable cluster for execution. In an environment where AI is driving nearly every company to face performance-intensive computing challenges, this approach not only simplifies delivery of these jobs but also allows analysts and engineers to address the challenges of and take advantage of hybrid cloud, on-premises infrastructure.
“From the very beginning, Fuzzball was architected as a hybrid computing platform and this new capability unlocks workload execution across on-premise and cloud resources, a key milestone in the evolution of Fuzzball.” said Gregory Kurtzer, founder and CEO of CIQ. “Federation allows Fuzzball to now automate the deployment of jobs based on a sophisticated analysis of architecture, resources, cost, and data-centric policies so that you no longer need to manually evaluate and choose the optimal environment for each workload. This is the first of many features designed to provide unparalleled hybrid flexibility in Fuzzball.”
Federation allows users to develop in the cloud and then deploy on expensive GPU or CPU resources on-premise or in the cloud in order to save costs. Conversely, some may choose to develop locally and then deploy to the cloud for scale. Either way, Fuzzball allows you to do this without modification to your code or management of the underlying environment. It allows for Fuzzball to deliver optimal performance, whether prioritizing speed, cost-effectiveness, or time-to-completion.
"Performance alone is no longer sufficient for supporting large-scale scientific computing,” said Andrew Younge, R&D Manager and PI at Sandia National Laboratories. “Today, we have the need for dynamic systems that can integrate diverse workloads, including AI and data analytics, alongside traditional simulations. Sandia's Vanguard program is excited to leverage cutting-edge technologies, like Fuzzball, to expand the high-performance computing ecosystem and enable future complex workloads. Fuzzball’s capabilities significantly enhance and expedite our research and development efforts, ensuring we remain at the forefront of innovation.”
Fuzzball Now Available on AWS
CIQ has also announced availability of Fuzzball on AWS allowing users to easily experiment with and deploy analytical and performance-intensive workloads This allows organizations to optimize or avoid the complexities and the capital expense of traditional, high-end on-premises environments and use their AWS environment as an option. This capability lets users deploy hybrid federation capabilities of Fuzzball to enable integration of existing on-premises resources with AWS for a cost-optimized, hybrid environment. Recognizing that some workloads may be more cost-effective to run on-premises, Fuzzball on AWS provides an option for on-demand and burst processing, giving organizations flexibility and cost optimization for these workloads.
CIQ Fuzzball is available on AWS today via the CIQ website.