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The Story of Spin: Five Years Supporting Science with Container-Based Services at NERSC
DescriptionOriginally launched in 2018, Spin is a user-facing, container-based platform designed for NERSC users to deploy their own science gateways, workflow managers, API endpoints, databases, and other network services to support their scientific projects. Spin users enjoy the ease of use and rapid deployment typical of cloud technologies combined with close proximity to large-scale compute and storage resources; NERSC administrators benefit from managing a common, consolidated service platform with a reduced-privilege container runtime environment.
In just five years, Spin has evolved into an important platform for web services and complex scientific workflows, supporting hundreds of users in over 80 NERSC projects. Along this journey, Spin has undergone a major redeployment to a Kubernetes-based back end, a complete overhaul of its security policy subsystems, a full hardware and storage refresh, and numerous software upgrades.
In this quick talk intended to "spin off" deeper conversations with both users and facilities, we’ll highlight key milestones and lessons learned in the development of Spin, and we'll share plans for the future, including upgraded storage, improved security automation, and an expansion of Spin into the HPC platform itself.
In just five years, Spin has evolved into an important platform for web services and complex scientific workflows, supporting hundreds of users in over 80 NERSC projects. Along this journey, Spin has undergone a major redeployment to a Kubernetes-based back end, a complete overhaul of its security policy subsystems, a full hardware and storage refresh, and numerous software upgrades.
In this quick talk intended to "spin off" deeper conversations with both users and facilities, we’ll highlight key milestones and lessons learned in the development of Spin, and we'll share plans for the future, including upgraded storage, improved security automation, and an expansion of Spin into the HPC platform itself.
