This is the first part of a two-part set about the Winter Invitational Student Cluster Competition (which the AWS HPC team supported as one of four mentor teams). The competition targeted academic institutions that we need to succeed to …
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We’re going to take you into the world of broadcast video, and explain how it led to us announcing today the general availability of EFA on smaller instance sizes. For a range of applications, this is going to save customers a lot of money …
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This year, we’ve launched a lot of new capabilities for HPC customers, making AWS the best place for the length and breadth of their workflows. EFA went mainstream and is now available in sixteen instance families for fast fabric …
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We have recently launched three new Amazon EC2 instances types enabled with Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), our network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node …
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AWS worked backwards from an essential problem in HPC networking (MPI ranks need to exchange lots of data quickly) and found a different solution for our unique circumstances, without trading off the things customers love the most about …
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In the search for HPC application performance, there’s more than one way to build a network.
HPC applications (or “codes” as we usually call them) are often at the mercy of the network underpinning an HPC cluster. If your CPUs aren’t busy, …
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By popular request, we’re looking today at the EFA software stack and environment: how to make sure it’s set up correctly (so you get great performance from your codes), how to tell if it’s not, and how to fix that.
Austin Cherian, our …
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AWS’s compute infrastructure is very much not like a ‘normal’ supercomputer (whatever that is). We don’t start with a blank page every few years and design the next big system. It’s more like a city where we have to build on what’s there …
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