The Ampersand Data Science team had a challenge: their Bayesian statistical models needed more than half a million core-hours of runtime, regularly, if they were to get an answer fast enough for it to be useful to their customers. Scaling …
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The AWS Batch team recently added container insights and advanced logging features to the Batch console, which is making a LOT of people very happy. We decided to catch up with the dev team in Seattle who worked on this, and one of my …
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Olly Perks - our resident Arm64 architecture expert and all round HPC software guy - walks us through the quite extensive support for HPC developers who are planning to work on AWS Graviton processors. There’s a lot of software and it …
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Olly Perks - our resident Arm64 architecture expert and all round HPC software guy - walks us through the quite extensive support for HPC developers who are planning to work on AWS Graviton processors. There’s a lot of software and it …
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This is the second part of a two-part set about the Winter Invitational Student Cluster Competition, which the AWS HPC team supported as one of four mentor teams. This isn’t just about the competition or the results. It’s about …
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This is the first part of a two-part set about the Winter Invitational Student Cluster Competition (which the AWS HPC team supported as one of four mentor teams). The competition targeted academic institutions that we need to succeed to …
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In the search for HPC application performance, there’s more than one way to build a network. HPC applications (or “codes” as we usually call them) are often at the mercy of the network underpinning an HPC cluster. If your CPUs aren’t busy, …
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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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