Pods Everywhere! InterLink: A Virtual Kubelet Abstraction Streamlining HPC... - Diego Ciangottini
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2024-03-20

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Pods Everywhere! InterLink: A Virtual Kubelet Abstraction Streamlining HPC Resource Exploitation - Diego Ciangottini, INFN

Kubernetes APIs are key assets in many scientific endeavours, enabling workflows across a wide range of environments thanks to the flexibility of its declarative primitives. What about keeping using the same APIs while getting a transparent access to any number of external hardware-accelerated machines? That would represent a real game changer. The interLink project is about that: an open source extension to the concept of Virtual-Kubelet. Developed by INFN in the context of interTwin, an EU funded project that aims to build a digital-twin platform for sciences, and the ICSC National Research Centre for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing in Italy . We will walk through the key features and the early use cases of a Kubernetes-based computing platform capable of extending its computational capabilities over heterogeneous providers: among others, the integration of a world-class supercomputer such as EuroHPC Vega will be showcased.