Understanding AWS ParallelCluster for government customers

Brendan Bouffler
Date : September 14, 2023
Categories : AI/ML ,AWS Batch ,AWS ParallelCluster ,Amazon NICE DCV ,Elastic Fabric Adapter ,Life Sciences
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If you’re pondering a new procurement phase to build an HPC facility for your lab or agency, it’s worth zooming out for a few minutes and seeing if the things you think you know about the cloud are still true. A lot has happened - especially at AWS in the last few years.

This is the second in a multi-part series to bring you up to speed with HPC at AWS - from a government customer point of view.

Today we’ll introduce you to ParallelCluster - our main tool for deploying clusters large and small into the cloud, ready to run workloads in a few minutes.

If you have ideas for technical topics you’d like to see us cover in a future show, let us know by emailing us at ask-hpc@amazon.com.