CIQ announced the availability of federation capabilities in Fuzzball, their performance-intensive computing platform.
This release allows engineering teams and business analysts to easily connect, manage and share compute resources for all performance-intensive workloads (HPC and AI) that need to be deployed globally, across different sites, and even across hybrid/on-premises and public cloud infrastructures. Further, the team has also made the CIQ Fuzzball platform available on AWS, providing easier consumption and facilitating the use of elastic cloud computing resources.
Introduced last year, CIQ Fuzzball already helps individuals define, deploy and manage complex analytical jobs across these disparate compute resources, freeing them to focus on solving problems rather than spending valuable time managing infrastructure. Often, however, the virtual resources and physical infrastructure they require can also span clusters, availability zones, regions, geographies and even clouds, and this has been a challenge.
The new federation capabilities in Fuzzball address the complexities of hybrid infrastructure head-on. Now, organizations can define resource pools across zones, regions and clouds, and Fuzzball intelligently deploys jobs to an appropriate cluster based on workload requirements. Fuzzball evaluates the compute, data and storage requirements of the workflow against the resources available and then dispatches the workflow to a suitable cluster for execution. In an environment where AI is driving nearly every company to face performance-intensive computing challenges, this approach not only simplifies delivery of these jobs but also allows analysts and engineers to address the challenges of and take advantage of hybrid cloud, on-premises infrastructure.
"From the very beginning, Fuzzball was architected as a hybrid computing platform and this new capability unlocks workload execution across on-premises and cloud resources, a key milestone in the evolution of Fuzzball," said Gregory Kurtzer, founder and CEO of CIQ. "Federation allows Fuzzball to now automate the deployment of jobs based on a sophisticated analysis of architecture, resources, cost and data-centric policies so that you no longer need to manually evaluate and choose the optimal environment for each workload. This is the first of many features designed to provide unparalleled hybrid flexibility in Fuzzball."
Federation allows users to develop in the cloud and then deploy on expensive GPU or CPU resources on-premises or in the cloud in order to save costs. Conversely, some may choose to develop locally and then deploy to the cloud for scale. Either way, Fuzzball allows users to do this without modification to code or management of the underlying environment. It allows for Fuzzball to deliver optimal performance, whether prioritizing speed, cost-effectiveness or time-to-completion.
CIQ has also announced availability of Fuzzball on AWS allowing users to easily experiment with and deploy analytical and performance-intensive workloads. This allows organizations to optimize or avoid the complexities and the capital expense of traditional, high-end on-premises environments and use their AWS environment as an option. This capability lets users deploy hybrid federation capabilities in Fuzzball to enable integration of existing on-premises resources with AWS for a cost-optimized, hybrid environment. Recognizing that some workloads may be more cost-effective to run on-premises, Fuzzball on AWS provides an option for on-demand and burst processing, giving organizations flexibility and cost optimization for these workloads.
CIQ Fuzzball is available on AWS today via the CIQ website.
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