Example scenario - HPC SaaS #759
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| title: Computer-aided engineering through high performance computing on Azure | |||
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Let's work on this title. Does this actually reflect the article? Would it be better to call it a "Managed system for Computer Aided Design on Azure"?
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| # Computer-aided engineering through high performance computing on Azure | ||
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| This example scenario demonstrates delivery of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform built on the high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities of Azure. This scenario is based on an engineering software solution. However, the architecture is relevant to other industries requiring HPC resources such as image rendering, complex modeling, and financial risk calculation. |
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Is this SaaS for internal resources or building a platform to be consumed by external customers?
| * Users can access NV-series virtual machines with powerful GPUs for rendering and collaborative tasks via a browser with a custom Remote Desktop browser control. Users can edit their designs and view their results. The HPC scheduler spins up additional nodes based on the number of waiting users. | ||
| * Users access a web application hosted in CentOS virtual machines to submit workloads to a queue for execution on available HPC cluster nodes. | ||
| * Complex workloads are executed using nodes in an HPC compute cluster. The HPC scheduler invokes Resource Manager templates to spin up additional nodes based on the depth of the queue. | ||
| * Simpler workloads are executed using an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. |
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How is complex vs simple defined and routed?
| ## Architecture | ||
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| ![Architecture for a SaaS solution enabling HPC capabilities][architecture] | ||
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Let's re-word this to sound more like a data flow.
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| ### Alternatives | ||
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| * [Azure CycleCloud](/azure/cyclecloud/overview) simplifies creating, managing, operating, and optimizing HPC clusters. It offers advanced policy and governance features. CycleCloud supports any job scheduler or software stack. |
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Would this replace Altair PBS Works suite?
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| ## Considerations | ||
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| * While using an infrastructure-as-code approach is a great way to manage virtual machine build definitions, it can take a long time to provision a new virtual machine using a script. This solution found a good middle ground by using the DSC script to periodically create a golden image, which can then be used to provision a new virtual machine much more quickly. |
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| ## Pricing | ||
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| The following considerations will drive a substantial portion of the costs for this solution. |
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Can we add a link to the calculator with at least a stub ($0/$1 item) for every Azure service used?
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Closing PR in favor of new PR targeting master. |
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