HPC Cloud Updates WE 01 Sep 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
Well clearly the big news here was the release of PCS. If you haven’t already read about that see here:
AWS Parallel Computing Service
Amazon releases a managed Slurm based HPC service.
or AWS’ own announcements:
Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service to run HPC workloads at virtually any scale | Amazon Web Services
With AWS Parallel Computing Service, run HPC workloads at virtually any scale effortlessly; leverage Slurm and managed clusters to accelerate simulations.
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Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
In other AWS news:
A look at reservoir simulations using hpc7a instances versus P5
How to improve reservoir simulation throughput using P5 instances | Amazon Web Services
Reservoir simulation is critical for energy companies, but running scenarios can be time consuming. Find out how you can improve your SLB INTERSECT simulations by 10x with AWS.
EC2 status can now include the health of an EBS volume
Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes
c6gd and r6gd instances now available in Spain
Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS Europe (Spain) region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS Europe (Spain) region
Azure
Trying to run HPC on K8? Running out of compute? Well now you can have up to 250 nodes (stil not enough for HPC really though)
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Supports Clusters Up to 250 Nodes
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Supports Clusters Up to 250 Nodes
Need bigger caches to feed your calcs (and you haven’t moved to ValKey yet)?
Generally Available: Larger Enterprise tier cache instances for Azure Cache for Redis
Generally Available: Larger Enterprise tier cache instances for Azure Cache for Redis
GCP
Want to know what your CISO is thinking?
Cloud CISO Perspectives: What you’re missing when you miss out on mWISE | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud Security’s Peter Bailey explains why mWISE is one of the most valuable events of the year for CISOs and security professionals.
Oh look at that, Google launch a ValKey based in memory cache
Announcing Memorystore for Valkey | Google Cloud Blog
Support for Valkey 7.2 in Memorystore provides a high-performance data management solutions based on an open-source key-value service.
