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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In recent years, we’ve all been amazed at how large areas of scientific computing have moved to abstract their workflows away from the details of systems and cluster architecture. Bioinformatics has really lead the way in this regard - …
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AWS worked backwards from an essential problem in HPC networking (MPI ranks need to exchange lots of data quickly) and found a different solution for our unique circumstances, without trading off the things customers love the most about …
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Containers are rapidly maturing within the high performance computing (HPC) community and we’re excited to be part of the movement: listening to what customers have to say and feeding this back to both the community and our own product and …
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Arm and AWS are jointly sponsoring a summer hackathon that’s being run by the Arm HPC User group (A-HUG - and definitely we send a hug to everyone out there). The goal of the hackathon is to get loads of codes with Spack recipes …
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Some workloads generate a LOT of output files and sometimes quite suddenly. For codes like OpenFOAM, this is data that you may not need until later when you run a post-processing job. Given the amount of data isn’t always predictable, there …
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