Accelerator Simulation - Beyond High Performance Computing

Accelerator modeling and simulation studies heavily rely on High Performance Computing (HPC). Public Cloud computing has opened a new service horizon for HPC by offering an on-demand Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Previously, we investigated using Amazon HPC public Cloud for lattice optimization applications and evaluated its performance. In this research, we use the Amazon VPC technology to study the feasibilities of extending local HPC resources into the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and to provide a seamless, hybrid, and secure environment when the demand for computing capacity spikes.