Compute Canada’s Magic Castle: Terraforming the Cloud for HPC

Félix-Antoine Fortin from Compute Canada gave this talk at FOSDEM 2020. “Magic Castle uses the open-source software Terraform and HashiCorp Language (HCL) to define the virtual machines, volumes, and networks that are required to replicate a virtual HPC infrastructure. In this talk, we will give a live demonstration of the creation of a cluster.”