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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Charlie Gruenweld, our newest Principal Engineer in the HPC org, took advantage of the new API in ParallelCluster and a few dozen years of web development revolutions to build a snappy UI for creating and managing clusters that makes it …
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Slurm’s job management API, coupled with ParallelCluster’s own API for managing cluster infrastructure opens up a lot of doors to create new ways for your users to interact with HPC resources - in this case without having to …
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In a previous show (https://youtu.be/6gAwAK5IJ2w), we talked about ‘Infrastructure as Code’, or how the ParallelCluster 3 YAML config translated to an actual cluster running, ready to take jobs. Today, Austin Cherian joins us …
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On Jan 10, the new Hpc6a instance became generally available in two regions. This instance is built from the ground up for HPC and comes with a number of interesting innovations. Neil and Heidi from our application performance team came …
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In December, we introduced EnginFrame with AWS HPC Connector, which is a new feature in EnginFrame to help customers leverage managed HPC resources in AWS as well as their on-prem systems - that means a single interface so administrators …
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