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title: Fuzzball - Whitepaper
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### Whitepaper

## Fuzzball

Modern Performance Computing, Now Available

Fuzzball combines the best of cloud, hyperscale, and enterprise with that of traditional HPC, resulting in a lower barrier to entry and increased security, supply chain confidence, and scale. These powerful benefits apply to everything from traditional HPC to compute and data-driven enterprise computing.

Reproducible workflows that run everywhere, integrating Kubernetes with HPC in the way it was intended by optimizing each technology to do what it does best. Ultimately, Fuzzball empowers you to do great things.

 

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#### Key highlights

## What is covered

![fuzzballguide](https://learn.ciq.com/hs-fs/hubfs/fuzzballguide.webp?width=971&height=997&name=fuzzballguide.webp "fuzzballguide")

![container](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/container.svg "container")

##### Built for Containers, Not Shell Scripts

Fuzzball ditches legacy HPC patterns in favor of container-native workflows that simplify setup, execution, and scaling.

![workflow](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/workflow.svg "workflow")

##### Workflow-Defined Everything

Jobs, volumes, ingress/egress, and compute resources are managed through human-readable workflows — no SSH or manual scripts required.

![monitor-check](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/monitor-check.svg "monitor-check")

##### Interfaces That Work for You

Manage HPC workloads via a modern web UI, portable CLI, or open API — all backed by the same orchestration system.

![rotate-ccw-key](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/rotate-ccw-key.svg "rotate-ccw-key")

##### Secure, Scalable, and Easy to Deploy

Includes secure secrets handling, fine-grained access control, CSI-based storage, and streamlined deployment into Kubernetes or bare metal.

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Step-by-Step to Deploy Fuzzball On-Prem

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This is Fuzzball | HPC 2.0 with Greg Kurtzer

Video

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Blog

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Fuzzball On-Prem 101 for HPC

Podcast

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