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We are pleased to announce that the "HPC Cloud Services Onboarding Guide" has been published. Current access to HPC resources has been the exclusive privilege of a small group of IT users. The reasons include the hefty investment in capital assets and operations, specialized knowledge and expertise requirements, and the ability to harness such enormous computational resources properly to solve appropriate problems. The emergence of HPC cloud services by commercial CSPs has democratized this access, allowing a much larger group of users to harness such vast computational resources, without having to make a hefty upfront investment and employing specialized operation staff. However, other requirements remain; the HPC user has to gain competence in understanding the problems and the type of workloads that can benefit from HPC. This report aims to provide a starting point for such users. The next report will focus on the security considerations of using an HPC cloud service, since almost all current HPC resources are on-premises, with the usual security measures in place. With commercial HPC cloud services maturing, lessons and best practices will become available leading to an increase in such usage. This next report will be useful to both (a) new HPC users; and (b) experienced on-premises HPC users. Please download the report from:  https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/guidelines-to-onboard-high-performance-computing-cloud-services/


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Hing-Yan Lee
EVP APAC
Cloud Security Alliance
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