If you have budget anxiety about overspending in your AWS account because you left something turned on, then Matt Vaughn has a solution for you. It’s a short procedure documented in a blog post that will let you send alerts to your …
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Sometimes creature comforts and easy buttons just rock. This is one of those times. If you’ve been using AWS Batch you might have often said ‘I wish I could put different information on this &^%# dashboard screen’. …
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We know that HPC isn’t the only part of research that computers support. And often most of those ‘other bits’ - before or after the HPC cluster has its go at your data - are even more important. But they’ve often not …
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Protein folding has changed the workflow in drug discovery, complementing lab work and tools like CryoEM. But the software stacks are complex and scaling them takes a lot of work. Added to that, there’s a growing list of methods, …
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GPUdirect RDMA was invented to massively speed up the ML frameworks that so many customers use to train their models using our large fleets of NVIDIA GPUs. Amr Ragab from EC2 Engineering took a few minutes at SC'22 to explain to us how it …
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Amazon File Cache is a service that’s bringing Lustre mainstream (yes, we know that sounds crazy). Lustre has been serving the HPC community for a few decades now, and it’s weird and wild that it’s now being used as a …
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AWS ParallelCluster has a new UI for designing, deploying, and managing clusters on AWS. It’s packed with all the features you’d imagine, and is built to ensure you spend more time designing your clusters to suit your workloads …
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If you’ve moved some of your HPC infrastructure to the cloud, chances are you’ve tried to figure out how to manage commercial software licenses that need to span both on-premises and on AWS. Fear not, because Brian Skjerven from …
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