The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster

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Main Authors: Weitzel, Derek, Graves, Ashton, Albin, Sam, Zhu, Huijun, Würthwein, Frank, Tatineni, Mahidhar, Mishin, Dmitry, Graham, John, Khoda, Elham E, Sada, Mohammad Firas, Smarr, Larry, DeFanti, Thomas
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author Weitzel, Derek
Graves, Ashton
Albin, Sam
Zhu, Huijun
Würthwein, Frank
Tatineni, Mahidhar
Mishin, Dmitry
Graham, John
Khoda, Elham E
Sada, Mohammad Firas
Smarr, Larry
DeFanti, Thomas
author_facet Weitzel, Derek
Graves, Ashton
Albin, Sam
Zhu, Huijun
Würthwein, Frank
Tatineni, Mahidhar
Mishin, Dmitry
Graham, John
Khoda, Elham E
Sada, Mohammad Firas
Smarr, Larry
DeFanti, Thomas
contents The National Research Platform (NRP) represents a distributed, multi-tenant Kubernetes-based cyberinfrastructure designed to facilitate collaborative scientific computing. Spanning over 75 locations in the U.S. and internationally, the NRP uniquely integrates varied computational resources, ranging from single nodes to extensive GPU and CPU clusters, to support diverse research workloads including advanced AI and machine learning tasks. It emphasizes flexibility through user-friendly interfaces such as JupyterHub and low level control of resources through direct Kubernetes interaction. Critical operational insights are discussed, including security enhancements using Kubernetes-integrated threat detection, extensive monitoring, and comprehensive accounting systems. This paper highlights the NRP's growing importance and scalability in addressing the increasing demands for distributed scientific computational resources.
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spellingShingle The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster
Weitzel, Derek
Graves, Ashton
Albin, Sam
Zhu, Huijun
Würthwein, Frank
Tatineni, Mahidhar
Mishin, Dmitry
Graham, John
Khoda, Elham E
Sada, Mohammad Firas
Smarr, Larry
DeFanti, Thomas
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
The National Research Platform (NRP) represents a distributed, multi-tenant Kubernetes-based cyberinfrastructure designed to facilitate collaborative scientific computing. Spanning over 75 locations in the U.S. and internationally, the NRP uniquely integrates varied computational resources, ranging from single nodes to extensive GPU and CPU clusters, to support diverse research workloads including advanced AI and machine learning tasks. It emphasizes flexibility through user-friendly interfaces such as JupyterHub and low level control of resources through direct Kubernetes interaction. Critical operational insights are discussed, including security enhancements using Kubernetes-integrated threat detection, extensive monitoring, and comprehensive accounting systems. This paper highlights the NRP's growing importance and scalability in addressing the increasing demands for distributed scientific computational resources.
title The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22864