An experimental cloud burst function is built on OCTOPUS. This functionality allows researchers to perform computation on Microsoft Azure in the same job submission fashion as OCTOPUS.
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For those who use OCTOPUS general-purpose CPU nodes, we are looking for people who can cooperate in this test of performance measurement, comparison, etc. Please see the following page for detail.
2nd tests on OCTOPUS-Azure cloudbursting
Extended the deadline.