What is the Elastic Fabric Adapter from AWS?

Brendan Bouffler
Date : November 4, 2022
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 ,vizualization ,techshorts

The Elastic Fabric Adapter was created so HPC and machine-learning customers could scale their tightly-coupled codes and models to thousands (and thousands) of cores without missing any performance. It has some very cool design features which means it can take advantage of the cloud’s inherent scale to solve some problems that other interconnects struggle with.

In this Tech Shorts Foundations talk, we cover what EFA is, how it fits in Amazon EC2, and how you can get busy using it.

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