Day 1 HPC

Learning pathways to the cloud

We’ve come a long way since the launch of the m1.small instance in 2006, adding instances with additional memory, compute power, and your choice of Intel, AMD, or Graviton processors. The original general-purpose “one size fits all” …

How life sciences research has been changed forever

Steve Litster leads the HCLS compute specialists team, and he’s well known to most of that community because he’s worked in research, and at a pharmaceutical company, and in the tech industry. But just speaking to him makes you …

Quantum error correction in the presence of biased noise

Have you ever heard about error correction? Without it, we could not obtain awe-inspiring pictures of Jupiter and its moons, conduct intelligible mobile phone calls, or have reliable computers. In this blog post, we explain the basic ideas …

GPUdirect RDMA massively speeds up machine learning at AWS - here's why

GPUdirect RDMA was invented to massively speed up the ML frameworks that so many customers use to train their models using our large fleets of NVIDIA GPUs.

Amr Ragab from EC2 Engineering took a few minutes at SC'22 to explain to us how it …

Multiple Availability Zones now supported in AWS ParallelCluster 3.4

In AWS ParallelCluster 3.4, you can now build HPC clusters that span multiple Amazon EC2 Availability Zones. In this post, we describe how the new feature works, how to use it, and some implications for cluster design that it raises.

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Tom Deakin explains performance portability and discusses AWS Graviton

Tom Deakin (and his colleague Simon McIntosh Smith) work on the hard problem of performance portability - the task of getting great performance out of software running on a range of computer architectures. This means they’re often …