HPC and the Cloud: Ellexus Container Checker

Ellexus: The I/O Profiling Companywww.ellexus.com

Ellexus: The I/O Profiling Company

HPC and the cloud: Announcing the launch of Ellexus Container Checker

The I/O Profiling Company - Protect. Balance. Optimise. www.ellexus.com

Dr Rosemary Francis

CEO and technical founder of Ellexus


What we care about: • Improving application performance• Locating I/O bottlenecks• Migration and optimisation made easy

Who we work with: HPC sectors including chip design, cancer research, finance, oil & gas.

Customers such as ARM, Ansys, Mentor Siemens and the Sanger Institute.

Where big compute meets big data!


www.ellexus.com



HPC and the cloud

The cloud is an opportunity to embrace new technology.

New environments bring new challenges,but with the right tools migration should be seamless.

Flexible compute means an unknown compute environment; workloads need to be platform agnostic.

Containers will help to make sure that your tools run, but it’s up to you to make sure that they run well.


Introducing our newest tool: Ellexus Container Checker

Ellexus: The I/O profiling companywww.ellexus.com

You've made your Docker container:

o Which files and network locations does it access?o Where does it spend its time? o Will it be scalable?o Have any third party changes caused a problem?

Run Container Checker to generate a simple report on the I/O performance of the applications within your Docker container.


One simple report

Using Ellexus Container Checker is simple: 1. Launch your container using the Ellexus Container Checker Docker launcher2. Receive your report once your application has finished.

The report will include:

I/O performanceSmall reads and writes? Excess meta data operations?

Deployment and securityMake sure nothing is missing Does the container access files or network locations that it shouldn’t?

TimeWhere is your application wasting time? Should you use a different cloud instance?


Why care about I/O profiling?

Ellexus: The I/O profiling companywww.ellexus.com

Bad I/O is costing you moneyAccessing file systems and networked data inefficiently can harm shared storage and will limit application performance.

"I saw an 87% improvement in run time!"Ahmed Ismail, software engineer at Mentor Graphics

"We really like what you are doing - it's really smart. We have nearly eliminated rogue jobs"Director DevOps, Silicon Valley software company

"Time between starting to look and solving the problem: 45 mins. I’m happy with that!"Steve Robson, Cadence Design Automation


Our products: I/O profiling covered

Cloud Migration

Live system monitoring

Protect storage from rogue jobs

Find bottlenecks in production

Debug devops and I/O issues

Dependency analysis

Detailed performance analysis

Make every user an I/O expert I/O Profiling-as-a-Service

Include I/O profiling in test and CI

Storage sizing and on-site I/O profiling

Automated dependency analysis

Make all your applications work first time

Find time wasters and bad I/O

Available on AWS!


Try Ellexus Container Checker

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Get in touch for a free [email protected]

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