How advanced cloud technologies can impact and change HPC environments for simulation

Abstract

In the last years, most enterprises and IT organizations have adopted virtualization and cloud computing solutions to achieve features such as flexibility, elasticity, fault tolerance, high availability and reliability for their computational, storage and networking resource infrastructures. Moreover, recent advances in Linux containers [1] and the emergence of technologies as Docker [2] are revolutionizing the way of developing and deploying web and large scale distributed applications.