This paper is an extended version of our first KSI paper1, which I had previously discussed.
As the previous paper had earned an award for best paper at the conference, we were invited to prepare an extended version to submit to the IARIA journals.
So we set out to address the short comings...
My dissertation covers 3 main products of my work.
These are two designs called Scalable AI Accelerator, short SAIA, and Scalable Kubernetes Inference Platform, short SKIP, as well as a design method for system of systems design.
The two designs both provide an approach for an AI inference platf...
This paper presents Ephemeral Kubernetes as a tool for deploying and re-deploying Kubernetes clusters on top of Warewulf.
Warewulf is a node management solution commonly utilized in HPC environments as it enables stateless node provisioning with nodes booting into operating system images that are...
This paper introduces Kind Slurm Integration, short KSI, as a system for running Kubernetes without root under Slurm.
The implementation is based on Kind and rootless Podman, which enable setting up and running a complete Kubernetes deployment within a Slurm job on a single node.
The paper...
The European Space Agency, short ESA, runs a yearly competition called Computer In A Room Challenge, short CIARC.
This competition is open to university students, including bachelor’s, master’s and PhD students, and is intended to foster curiosity in space engineering from students of various f...
About Me
Dr. Jonathan Decker
Jonathan Decker takes the role of a system architect with a focus on designing systems that enable new and novel ways of utilizing Cloud and HPC resources, while also being efficient, secure and scalable.
Most notably, he strives to combine HPC with Kubernetes to get the best of both worlds.
Jonathan completed his PhD in 2025 via his work on Chat AI and its underlying AI inference platform, which now enables secure and sensitive access to AI services for students and researchers across Germany.
Moreover, in 2025, he served as the speaker of the PhD student representatives of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen.
Now he heads a team in the High-Performance Storage research group of Prof Kunkel while being in close collaboration with the GWDG.
There he handles research, supervision of PhD students and university teaching activities.