Protein folding simulations can consume huge CPU time on supercomputers. AlphaFold changed that by applying ML techniques to the task. Then the problem became ‘how do I run AlphaFold easily?’. The Healthcare AI/ML team at AWS …
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Amazon Braket is AWS’s Quantum Computing service which gives you access to several Quantum Computers using a serverless programming model and … YOU ACTUALLY GET TO USE REAL QUANTUM COMPUTERS without needing a $50M budget and a …
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EnginFrame makes life easy for scientists and engineers so they can use HPC resources without having to understand the complexity. BUT: EnginFrame also makes the local sysadmin a hero by giving them the ability to embed into simple scripts …
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The AWS Genomics CLI (or AGC) seriously removes all the grunt work involved in setting up bioinformatics pipelines to run in the cloud. We know that Snakemake, Cromwell, NextFlow and miniWDL all work happily in the cloud on AWS Batch, but …
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Customers have been asking us to make it easy to configure ParallelCluster to use a corporate directory server, so adding a user to the cloud HPC stack becomes as easy as adding them to (say) the Engineering Group in Active Directory or …
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We launched Amazon FSx for OpenZFS at re:invent in December, and well let’s just say it’s been more than a bit popular :-) ZFS and it’s friends have been a long time favorite of the HPC community, so we asked Delwin …
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Sometimes when we’re looking for performance we lose the forrest for all those trees - we miss the huge improvements we can do to unglamorous parts of the overall workflow, while we obsess on the pieces that look hard. It’s an …
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The Amazon Fsx for Lustre team have managed to turn what used to be a multi-year process to buy and build a Lustre filesystem, into a simple process with a launch button on the front. It’s hard to overstate the pain that this saves, …
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