High-Throughput Cloud Computing with the Cloudscheduler VM Provisioning Service

Abstract

AbstractWe describe a high-throughput computing system for running jobs on public and private computing clouds using the HTCondor job scheduler and the cloudscheduler VM provisioning service. The distributed cloud computing system is designed to simultaneously use dedicated and opportunistic cloud resources at local and remote locations. It has been used for large-scale production particle physics workloads for many years using thousands of cores on three continents. A decade after its initial design and implementation, cloudscheduler has been modernized to take advantage of new software designs, improved operating system capabilities and support packages. The updated cloudscheduler is more resilient and scalable, with expanded capabilities. We present an overview of the original design and then describe the new version of the distributed compute cloud system. We conclude with a review of the current status and future plans.