Aerospace Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and High Performance Computing (HPC) on AWS
Publication date: January 26, 2022 (Diagram history)
This architectural diagram shows the process for running computer-aided engineering (CAE) computations and visualizations in the cloud with desktop access.
Aerospace VDI and HPC on AWS Diagram
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The user starts virtual desktop (VD) sessions, starts and monitors high performance computing (HPC) jobs using a web interface or application programming interface (API), accesses VD sessions with NICE DCV client, and shares data with the VD and HPC environment using SFTP.
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The AMI Build environment produces AMIs with specialized software for VDI and HPC environment.
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NICE DCV session to Windows VDI.
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NICE DCV session to Linux VDI.
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Directory Service is used for the centralized user management. The cluster head node, Linux and Windows VDIs, HPC compute nodes join the Active Directory domain.
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AWS Transfer for SFTP is used to share data between on-premises and the cluster.
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Amazon EFSAmazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is used for storing of cluster applications and for sharing data with on-premises. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP stores user data which needs to be easily accessible from Windows and Linux VDIs. Amazon FSx for Lustre is used by HPC nodes during computations.
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Amazon EC2 is used for HPC compute nodes. The cluster’s Head node spawns and stops the compute nodes using auto scaling groups.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service stores HPC job and hosts information.
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