(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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AWS’s compute infrastructure is very much not like a ‘normal’ supercomputer (whatever that is). We don’t start with a blank page every few years and design the next big system. It’s more like a city where we have to build on what’s there …
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Carsten Kutzner is a researcher and scientific software developer at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen in Germany. He’s been doing some really diverse benchmarking studies in collaboration with our HPC …
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DCV was originally built for supercomputing centers to push pixels over the internet and enable a scientist or aerospace engineer to feel like they had an HPC cluster under their desk when inspecting detailed imagery or manipulating …
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DCV was originally created for scientists and engineers who run thing on supercomputers. They needed to visualize massive datasets produced by really large compute workloads crunching petabytes of data. That takes some fast machines and …
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Our AWS Batch development team have been working on some major improvements to the way Batch assesses the need to scale up or down. We’re doing 5x as many scaling evaluations per hour now which should pick up the pace significantly. With …
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We just published a blog post last week with a deep dive into what makes GROMACS tick. The blog post talked about software stacks and EC2 instances that will deliver the best possible performance for people trying to do some molecular …
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Christian Kniep (our senior developer relations engineer) from HPC Engineering is back to finish the conversation we started about containers in HPC. Christian is leading the cause for containerization in HPC, and helping our engineering …
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