Visualization cluster setup in 15 mins thanks to DCV & ParallelCluster

Brendan Bouffler
Date : January 19, 2023
Categories : AWS ParallelCluster ,Amazon NICE DCV ,Elastic Fabric Adapter ,Life Sciences
Tags : cpus ,dcv ,ec2 ,efa ,gpus ,hpc ,high performance computing ,lustre ,mpi ,parallel cluster ,schedulers ,storage ,autoscaling ,bioinformatics ,cloud computing ,elastic ,elastic fabric adapter ,infiniband ,scientific computing ,technical computing ,tightly coupled ,virtualization ,visualization ,vizualization ,techshorts

Ever had to figure out an HPC application with a visual desktop mode before? Sean Smith has - he helps customers all time to set up really well-designed HPC clusters on AWS with access to top flight visualization features that feel like they’re running locally.

Along the way, he’s worked out how to do it pretty quickly, and thought up some neat solutions that reduce the cost of doing it, too. We caught up with him at re:Invent'22 in Vegas, and he took us for a drive through his latest creation, using StarCMM+ as his favorite example.

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