reInvent ‘21 is over, but it was a busy week with new tech developments we’ve built for customers in pretty much every area of HPC: storage, networking and compute. We talk with our HPC General Manager, Ian Colle, about ZFS, …
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We announced the first generation AWS-designed Graviton processor in late 2018, and followed it up with the second generation Graviton2 a year later. Today, AWS customers make use of twelve different Graviton2-powered instances including …
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EC2 storage-optimized instances are designed to deliver high disk I/O performance, and plenty of storage. Our customers use them to host high-performance real-time databases, distributed file systems, data warehouses, key-value stores, and …
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This article was contributed by Dr. Fabio Baruffa, Sr. HPC and QC Solutions Architect at AWS, and Dr. Jesús Pérez Ríos, Group Leader at the Fritz Haber Institute, Max-Planck Society. Introduction Quantum chemistry – the study of the …
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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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This is a talk that was delivered at the AWS/Arm Cloud Hackathon in July 2021. Will Lovett works for Arm on the Arm compiler, and talk about how compilers work, and how to best leverage them to get the result you’re looking for when …
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This is a talk that was delivered at the AWS/Arm Cloud Hackathon in July 2021. Jeff Hammond is a computational scientist at NVIDIA and walks through techniques for getting applications to scale in HPC. The Summer Hackathon ran for a week …
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(A complete teardown of WRF performance on x86 and AWS Graviton, from memory subsystems, compilers and MPI stacks). Weather simulation is a reliably difficult workload for almost any HPC architecture and is often used as a litmus test by …
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