Flexible HPC : bwForCluster NEMO

Traditional High Performance Computing on bare metal is based on the paradigm of maximum usage of resources whereas Cloud Computing relies on virtualization and is considered as a shift towards flexible usage of resources. The bwForCluster NEMO is a HPC system that offers virtualized research environments as an additional mode of operation, thus spanning a bridge between both paradigms. The important achievement is that for the HPC scheduler, a virtual machine instance is just another job. There is no static partitioning necessary and the HPC scheduler keeps control over accounting and fair-share.