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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Chatter of the week

Listen to the KubeCon NA 2022 recap episode

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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
KubeCon NA 2019: How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio - Nicolas Chaillan
Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Chick-fil-A Scale by Brian Chambers, Caleb Hurd, and Alex Crane

Kubernetes on Vessels, with Louis Bailleul

Kubernetes Podcast from Google