[Sle-hpc] Microservices and HPC

[Nicolas Bock]

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:31:52PM +0000, David Byte wrote:
>I’ve been chewing on this for a bit and thought I’d throw the question into the wild.  Has anyone heard or seen a customer or partner thinking about HPC from a microservices perspective?  E.g. can you break down genetic sequencing, CFD, etc into bite sized chunks where microservices may enable a more flexible plug and play type environment?  The end result being an IFTTT process for building HPC workflows?

Hi David,

In principle I don't see why one couldn't map a scientific 
application onto microservices, however, I think whether this 
makes sense depends on what kind of latencies we can expect for a 
microservice based implementation. Can this compete even somewhat 
closely to a traditional HPC Infiniband fabric?

Best,

Nick

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