CIQ, the software vendor behind Fuzzball, has unveiled the latest version of the HPC orchestration platform, which is engineered specifically to satisfy the production-grade demands of national laboratories and HPC centers
Verzion 4.0 deploys to hyperscale platforms like Google Cloud, Oracle, and AWS, as well as on-premises clusters built with Warewulf, VMware, or bare metal. The biggest addition as part of 4.0 sees support extended to Azure.
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The latest iteration of Fuzzball is designed to let operators connect their platforms to existing parallel file systems like Lustre, GPFS, and BeeGFS without the need for data migration, duplication, or changes to established storage architectures.
CIQ, which is also the primary commercial support partner for Rocky Linux, also implemented a redesigned command-line interface (CLI) in version 4.0, which provides users with a consistent installation and management experience regardless of their target environment.
A native object cache has also been added that retains ingressed data for reuse across workloads, which reduces redundant data movement and, in turn, reduces time-to-compute for repeat workloads – which CIQ says gives researchers more time to run experiments.
“Every transformative platform in computing history introduced an abstraction layer that made something previously out of reach, consumable,” said Gregory Kurtzer, CIQ’s founder and CEO, and one of the leading minds behind CentOS Linux. “Fuzzball democratizes access to outcomes by replacing specialized operational expertise with intelligent infrastructure abstraction.”
“For the first time, organizations can treat HPC, AI training, AI inference, cloud resources, and on-premises infrastructure as a single consumable capability,” Kurtzer added. “What we have built is the supersuit for scientific computing: the most powerful HPC and AI platform in the world, finally as easy to deploy, operate, and scale as the science demands.”
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