Kubernetes on Vessels, with Louis Bailleul

Louis Bailleul is a Chief Enterprise Architect at PGS. After years of running highly-ranked super computers to process PGS’ seismic data, Louis’s team at PGS has lead a transition to Google Cloud. Listen in to learn about HPC in Google Cloud with GKE, and to explore using Kubernetes to do processing on vessels at sea!

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Links from the interview

• PGS
• A picture of a PGS vessel
• PGS post from 2021 about their supercomputing rankings and transition to Google Cloud
• Top500 List
• Kubernetes Custom Resources (CRDs)
• Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs
• Google Cloud Spot Instances
• Google Cloud Preemptible VM Instances
• Google Cloud - Manage capacity and quota
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