Using Nimbus: Cloud computing at Pawsey: Glossary

The Cloud is just someone else’s computer.

You can run compute jobs without interruption.

Pawsey has a range of compute facilities, cloud, large memory nodes, GPU clusters, HPC clusters.

To scale your problem you will need to use horizontal or vertical parallel scaling.

Cloud computing with Nimbus has a range of use cases that complement our Supercomputing facilities.

Pawsey staff can help navigate through this.

We use ssh to connect to a virtual machine and the nimbus website to manage.

Create keypairs using the Nimbus dashboard.

Keypairs can be imported using the dashboard

Functional keypairs are required for starting a virtual machine

Security groups and networks can be modified to meet specific needs

You learnt how to start an instance using Openstack and the Nimbus Cloud;

You learnt how to connect with an SSH client to a Linux instance.

You learnt how to create a new volume and attach it to your instance.

You learnt how to create a new filesystem and mount it to your instance

You learnt how to keep your instance up to date