Summary

Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly difficult to efficiently manage available computational and storage resources, to provide transparent application access to such resources, and to ensure performance isolation and fairness across different workloads. The BigHPC project will address these challenges with a novel management framework, for Big Data and parallel computing workloads.

In this sense, the BigHPC will simplify the management of Big Data applications and HPC infrastructural resources – with a direct impact on science, industry and society, by accelerating scientific breakthroughs in different fields and increasing the competitiveness of companies through better data analysis and improved decision-support processes.

The project will advance the current knowledge and develop new tools to address the different challenges in HPC infrastructures, namely the monitoring, virtualization and storage management components. At the end of the project, it is expected that the BigHPC will integrate these three components in a new platform, thus allowing a more efficient use of said infrastructures and their services.