Testing AI Containers for Digital Twins in Science: A Cloud-HPC... Matteo Bunino & Diego Ciangottini
Matteo Bunino, Diego Ciangottini
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
This talk, presented by Diego Ciangottini from the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Matteo Bunino from CERN Openlab, delves into the creation of a pioneering platform designed to develop and test **digital twins** within a **hybrid cloud and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment**. The core challenge addressed is how to enable scientific communities, particularly those in particle physics and environmental sciences, to leverage diverse computational resources – from traditional cloud infrastructure to EuroHPC supercomputers – for complex AI-driven simulations while maintaining workflow consistency and reproducibility.
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This session by INFN and CERN Openlab presents a highly sophisticated and practical platform for developing, testing, and deploying scientific digital twins in a hybrid cloud-HPC environment. Leveraging Kubernetes with InterLink for seamless HPC integration, Dagger for reproducible CI/CD, and the i-twin-AI library for scalable distributed AI, the team has engineered a robust framework. The standout innovation is the automated, end-to-end CI/CD pipeline capable of executing inherently distributed AI tests directly on supercomputers, a critical advancement for ensuring the reliability and…