We always worry the most about the compute nodes on a cluster (for a good reason - it’s where all the action is), but it’s worth taking a moment to think about your head node, because that’s where you can really define …
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Amazon Braket is a service that’s quite different from our other compute offerings. It’s serverless, but .. the ‘servers’ that live behind it are in cryogenic labs all around the world. This is research, done …
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If you’ve ever had to stand up a rig on premises or in the cloud to run genomics pipelines, or do downstream analysis, you’ll know it’s not a small pile of packages you need to build, and connecting them all can be …
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If you have budget anxiety about overspending in your AWS account because you left something turned on, then Matt Vaughn has a solution for you. It’s a short procedure documented in a blog post that will let you send alerts to your …
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Sometimes creature comforts and easy buttons just rock. This is one of those times. If you’ve been using AWS Batch you might have often said ‘I wish I could put different information on this &^%# dashboard screen’. …
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We know that HPC isn’t the only part of research that computers support. And often most of those ‘other bits’ - before or after the HPC cluster has its go at your data - are even more important. But they’ve often not …
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Protein folding has changed the workflow in drug discovery, complementing lab work and tools like CryoEM. But the software stacks are complex and scaling them takes a lot of work. Added to that, there’s a growing list of methods, …
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GPUdirect RDMA was invented to massively speed up the ML frameworks that so many customers use to train their models using our large fleets of NVIDIA GPUs. Amr Ragab from EC2 Engineering took a few minutes at SC'22 to explain to us how it …
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