High Performance Computing (HPC) is known as a domain where applications are well-optimized to get the highest performance possible on a platform. Unsurprisingly, a common question when moving a workload to AWS is what performance …
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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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NICE DCV, our high-performance, low-latency remote-display protocol, was originally created for scientists and engineers who ran large workloads on far-away supercomputers, but needed to visualize data without moving it. Pushing pixels over …
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Netflix has a really ambitious goal to create more content than practically anyone, but ran into headwinds when Covid-19 forced us all to lock down: it became hard to recruit and support artists, editors and other creatives without finding …
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Batch processing is a common need across varied machine learning use cases such as video production, financial modeling, drug discovery, or genomic research. The elasticity of the cloud provides efficient ways to scale and simplify batch …
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Nextflow Tower became necessary when lots of Nextflow users started to leave the confines of their existing environments in search of more compute, more storage, more capabilities. Nextflow made their workflows portable, but there was still …
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NF Core is an open source repository of Nextflow workflows that can be downloaded, shared, forked, updated, tested and validated. If you’ve ever heard that quote from Isaac Newtown about seeing further by standing on the shoulders of …
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AWS has a LOT of storage options (block, PIOPS, object, volume, loads of file sytems), pretty much all of which can be used for HPC. That’s because we’re not forced to come up with one single massively fast storage solution that …
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