‘Infrastructure as Code’ has a weird meaning in HPC, because it says we can write a script which stands up the entire incredibly complex software stack that is an HPC cluster, complete with MPIs, math libraries, schedulers - and …
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RONIN is probably the easiest way for a research scientist or engineer to be able to quickly jump into the cloud on AWS and get stuff done. And they’ve made a regular habit of delighting their customers by making hard things easy. In …
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A major portion of the costs incurred for running Finite Element Analyses (FEA) workloads on AWS comes from the usage of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances offer a cost-effective architectural choice, allowing you to take …
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HPC in Financial Services is interesting for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with banking. It’s an embarrassingly parallel workload, typically made up from zillions of short’ish jobs (seconds to minutes). And the …
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RONIN (www.ronin.cloud) is one of our favorite HPC partners, because they’ve done a really comprehensive job providing research customers the governance and guardrails they need around budget management and data security to make …
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Today we’re announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3. Customers, integrators, and other builders have told us they want to build end-to-end “recipes” for HPC, spanning the whole gamut from infrastructure to middleware, libraries, and runtime codes. …
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Since our NICE DCV high performance desktop and application streaming product does such a great job of making it feel like you have a cloud dat center sitting behind your laptop screen somewhere, lots of customers have asked …
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This is a talk that was delivered at the AWS/Arm Cloud Hackathon in July 2021. Todd Gamblin (the creator of Spack) and his colleague Greg Becker talk us through the essential skills and concepts needed to understand how to create and deploy …
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