HPC on AWS just got faster and lower-cost with the launch of Hpc6a

Brendan Bouffler
Date : January 13, 2022
Categories : AWS ParallelCluster ,Amazon NICE DCV ,Life Sciences
Tags : amd milan ,cpus ,covid 19 ,dcv ,ec2 ,gpus ,hpc ,high performance computing ,hpc6a ,lustre ,parallel cluster ,schedulers ,storage ,virtualization ,vizualization ,techshorts

On Jan 10, the new Hpc6a instance became generally available in two regions. This instance is built from the ground up for HPC and comes with a number of interesting innovations. Neil and Heidi from our application performance team came along to show results from real analyses of real codes running at tens of thousands of cores, with some of the hardest applications on Earth.

The instance details are here: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/hpc6/

… and the blog post talking about them is here: https://hpc.news/Hpc6aLaunch

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