XaaS: Acceleration as a Service to Enable Productive High-Performance Cloud Computing

Hoefler, Torsten; Copik, Marcin; Beckman, Pete; Jones, Andrew; Foster, Ian; Parashar, Manish; Reed, Daniel; Troyer, Matthias; Schulthess, Thomas; Ernst, Daniel; Dongarra, Jack

doi:10.1109/mcse.2024.3382154

XaaS: Acceleration as a Service to Enable Productive High-Performance Cloud Computing

Journal Article · 02 April 2024 · Computing in Science and Engineering

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/mcse.2024.3382154· OSTI ID:2545755

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Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (United States)
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Lugano (Switzerland)
Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

High-performance computing (HPC) and the cloud have evolved independently, specializing their innovations into performance or productivity. Acceleration as a Service (XaaS) is a recipe to empower both fields with a shared execution platform that provides transparent access to computing resources, regardless of the underlying cloud or HPC service provider. Bridging HPC and cloud advancements, XaaS presents a unified architecture built on performance-portable containers. Here, our converged model concentrates on low-overhead, high-performance communication and computing, targeting resource-intensive workloads from climate simulations to machine learning. XaaS lifts the restricted allocation model of Function as a Service (FaaS), allowing users to benefit from the flexibility and efficient resource utilization of serverless computing while supporting long-running and performance-sensitive workloads from HPC.

Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 2545755

Journal Information:: Computing in Science and Engineering, Journal Name: Computing in Science and Engineering Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 26; ISSN 1521-9615

Publisher:: IEEE Computer SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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