Volcano – Cloud Native Batch System for AI, BigData and HPC - William (LeiBo) Wang
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 19/05/2022

Volcano – Cloud Native Batch System for AI, BigData and HPC - William(LeiBo) Wang, Huawei Cloud Computing Co., Ltd

Volcano is a cloud native batch system which is also the first batch computing project in CNCF. The major use cases are in the field of high-performance computing (HPC), such as big data, AI, Gene computing. Volcano offers job based fair-share, priority, preemption, reclaim, queue management abilities which are important for HPC users. It has integrated with computing ecosystem like spark-operator, fink-operator, kubeflow, Cromwell in big data, AI and HPC computing domains. This year Volcano is also being integrated to spark with it's custom batch scheduler natively. And many new features are being developed by contributors. f.g. co-location, elastic training, vGPU, throughput optimization and multi-cluster scheduling for HPC users.

The community has helped more than 50 users to deploy Volcano in their production environments around the world since it is open-sourced in 2019. William(Leibo) Wang who is the tech lead of Volcano community will present the latest features, use cases, progress, roadmap and best practices. He will also show how to accelerate AI training, serving, big data analysis and how to improve cluster utilization based on Volcano and other cloud native projects for users.