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Not where you can bring your own image as of yet. Although Thomasj above mentions you can do this in OpenWhisk.

The closest to scientific HPC I have used personally is pywren https://github.com/pywren/pywren

Which is attempting to add more cloud backends. It's out of Berkley University.

Hi! Pywren project lead here, we're working on more and more fun HPC-style projects! We're also interested in expanding to more and more backends, so please feel free to reach out if there's something you'd like to see.

I meant more like the opposite, where you can do parallel computing in a cluster by using a simple serverless FaaS paradigm. The idea is to remove the headache of manually setting up an MPI cluster, worrying about MPI communications, etc.

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