{"id":135,"date":"2020-03-02T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/?p=135"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:06:49","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knowledgebasev.kinsta.cloud\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"1) Introduction to Sabalcore &#8211; Start here"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What is Sabalcore HPC Cloud and what makes it unique?<\/h3>\n<p>Sabalcore provides High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in\u00a0a private cloud for engineers, scientists, and researchers. Our systems are designed to run computationally intensive numerical applications with performance and efficiency in mind.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fully Managed<\/span> &#8211; Unlike Amazon, Azure, or Google where you must configure and manage your own environment, the environment at Sabalcore is fully managed and ready to go.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">True &#8220;bare-metal&#8221; processing<\/span> &#8211; We offer core-hours on bare-metal CPU cores. At Amazon, for example, time is typically sold on virtual CPUs, &#8220;vCPUs&#8221;. With vCPUs, the processor core is split into two virtual processors (via hyperthreading). One vCPU has less than half the processing power of one bare-metal core due to some processing overhead associated with virtualization and the fact that 2 vCPUs\u00a0share\u00a0the resources of single CPU core. To illustrate, 32 vCPUs from the other cloud providers has less computational capability than 16 bare-metal cores at Sabalcore.<em> Contrary to popular belief, virtualization is not ideal for HPC workloads and is actually detrimental to performance in nearly all cases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">True high performance network<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; We only use non-virtual high performance network connectivity known as Infiniband. Infiniband is the most commonly used interconnect in supercomputers today and is an important technology for MPI based applications that run in parallel.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tightly Coupled\u00a0System<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; This is a very important aspect of high performance computing\u00a0that is often overlooked. For data sensitive applications, it is important that the storage system is directly attached to the compute infrastructure.\u00a0\u00a0The data storage service is directly accessible to the compute infrastructure (nodes and clusters) at all times. This eliminates the need to stage data before it can be processed.\u00a0\u00a0Amazon, Azure, and Google require the user data to be copied from storage buckets to\u00a0the virtual instances (such as a local drive on the instance) and the user is charge for the transfer bandwidth and storage.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Single Origin<\/span> &#8211; It is important to know where and who is responsible for your HPC service. Unlike some HPC service providers,\u00a0 which are built upon commodity\u00a0cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Sabalcore owns all servers and networks so you know exactly what you are paying for and where and who manages\u00a0the service.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Native Client<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; Interfacing with the Sabalcore service is done through the Sabalcore Client or &#8220;ssClient&#8221; which you are using now. It runs independent of the browser (aside from the Knowledge Base) which\u00a0 provides a reliable, more efficient, user experience. Remote desktop, command line terminals, and file transfer tools work independently which helps\u00a0streamline work-flows. Sabalcore&#8217;s ssClient is unique and no other provider offers a similar interface.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fast file transfers<\/span> &#8211; We have integrated a proprietary file transfer protocol\u00a0to the\u00a0ssClient called &#8220;Global File Transfer (GFT)&#8221;. This protocol greatly increases the file transfer speed and efficiency between Sabalcore and the user. It is designed to transfer GBs of data in minutes over large distances.\u00a0 This\u00a0shortens the &#8220;time to results&#8221; by significantly reducing the time it takes to download your final results, especially for our users located overseas.\u00a0 No other providers offer this capability.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Sabalcore HPC Cloud and what makes it unique? Sabalcore provides High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in\u00a0a private cloud for engineers, scientists, and researchers. 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