August 5, 2019

We have tested VirtualFlow on large scales in the cloud. It worked smoothly, and exhibited a linear scaling behavior, as expected.

Due to its flexible architecture, VirtualFlow is able to not only run on Linux computer clusters and supercomputers, but also runs natively on cloud computing platforms such 

  • Google Cloud Platform 
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure

This is due to the circumstance that VirtualFlow operates by using resource managers (also called batch systems) such as SLURM, and these batch systems are able to run on many cloud computing platforms as the three mentioned above.

More detailed instructions on how to run VirtualFlow in the cloud can be found here in the documentation.