In this short introduction, CIQ's founder and CEO makes the case for Fuzzball. He observes that the software architecture behind high performance computing has stayed largely unchanged for nearly 30 years and, while it has served scientific computing well, has become a limiting factor for innovation in both traditional HPC and enterprise use cases. Containers in HPC, beginning with his creation of Singularity, showed what a different approach could unlock.
Fuzzball is presented as several years of work combining cloud, hyperscale and enterprise technologies with HPC to lower barriers to entry while delivering simplicity, security, supply chain confidence, scale and flexibility, on-prem, across clouds and at the edge.
Key takeaways
- HPC software architecture has remained basically unchanged for nearly 30 years and is now limiting innovation.
- Containers in HPC, starting with Singularity, changed how organizations think about applications and reproducible science.
- Fuzzball combines cloud, hyperscale and enterprise technologies with HPC to lower barriers to entry.
- The platform runs efficiently on-prem, multi-prem, in the cloud, across multiple clouds and even at the edge.
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What is Fuzzball?
Fuzzball is CIQ's next generation of high performance computing, which CIQ calls HPC 2.0. It combines cloud, hyperscale and enterprise technologies with traditional HPC to lower barriers to entry while adding simplicity, security, supply chain confidence, scale and flexibility, all in a modern architecture and interface that runs on-prem, in the cloud and at the edge.
About this video
What is Fuzzball, and how is it HPC 2.0? In this video, the founder and CEO of CIQ tells the story behind Fuzzball and how it can impact our everyday lives.
This video is part of the Fuzzball playlist. Browse every CIQ video by product and topic.
Transcript
for nearly 30 years the software architecture used for high performance Computing has remained basically unchanged while this architecture has been incredibly impactful for research scientific Computing recently it has been more of a limiting factor in terms of driving Innovation both for traditional high performance Computing as well as enterprise-focused Computing use cases this became blatantly apparent with the Advent of containers in high performance computing when I first created Singularity it completely changed how organizations and people thought about applications and reproducible science but that was just the start of what's to come for the past few years now we've been building out a vision the Next
Generation high performance Computing combining the best of cloud hyperscale and Enterprise Technologies with that of HPC we've lowered the barriers to entry while driving things like Simplicity security supply chain confidence scale and flexibility all with a new more modern Computing architecture and interface that runs anywhere efficiently on-prem multi-prem Cloud multi-cloud even out to the edge this is fuzzball the next generation of high performance computing
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