Tom Deakin (and his colleague Simon McIntosh Smith) work on the hard problem of performance portability - the task of getting great performance out of software running on a range of computer architectures. This means they’re often …
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At re:Invent ‘22 in Las vegas, AWS’s CEO Adam Selipsky launched the Hpc6id instance family as part of an AWSome week of HPC innovation announcements. The Hpc6id is amazing for structures simulations - the kinds of things that …
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Ever had to figure out an HPC application with a visual desktop mode before? Sean Smith has - he helps customers all time to set up really well-designed HPC clusters on AWS with access to top flight visualization features that feel like …
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DCV started as a technology to make supercomputers feel local so you didn’t need to be in a cold data center when you were visualizing massive datasets. But now it’s so much more, because it’s spread into every nook and …
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Amazon BraKet is probably the most unusual service in AWS. It’s a fully-managed service with APIs for accessing real, live, quantum computers living in cryogenic labs all around the world. And if that wasn’t weird enough for …
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In the fast-paced world of movie-making, time is money. Modern films and TV shows can have hundreds, or thousands, of Visual Effects (VFX) shots that need to be created and finalized on tight deadlines. The creation of the final images …
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Knowing the physical structure of proteins is an important part of the drug discovery process. Machine learning (ML) algorithms like AlphaFold have revolutionized discoveries leading to usable protein structures. In part one Brian Loyal …
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Organizations in regulated industries are frequently required to maintain a copy of their business-critical file data in another location to meet corporate compliance or disaster recovery (DR) mandates. Furthermore, in highly distributed …
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