HPC Cloud Updates WE 02 Feb 2025

AWS

AWS Parallel Compute Services had a love in with Cloud Formation meaning its even easier to spin up your first PCS cluster now

Three recipes you don’t want to miss for AWS Parallel Computing Service | Amazon Web Services

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling you to deploy and scale HPC workloads as code. Check out our open-source HPC Recipes Library for quick cluster deployments.

Amazon Web Services

AWS Batch is fighting back though

How Caris Life Sciences processed 400,000 RNAseq samples in 2.5 days with AWS Batch | Amazon Web Services

In the race to deliver precision medicine, time is of the essence. Caris Life Sciences, a pioneer in this field, leveraged AWS Batch to build a highly scalable solution that processed hundreds of thousands of genomic samples in record time. Discover how they achieved this remarkable feat and the key services that powered their breakthrough.

Amazon Web Services

m7g is available in the UAE and c8g in Stockholm

Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE)

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Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm)

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Azure

DeepSeek is dominating everything it seems, even at Azure. Want to run it on an NDv5? I mean I completely expected AWS to make it available on Bedrock (they did) but for Microsoft to embrace the news to this extent was a little surprising. I guess if you can’t beat them you can at least get them to run it on your hardware right?

Running DeepSeek-R1 on a single NDv5 MI300X VM | Microsoft Community Hub

Contributors: Davide Vanzo, Yuval Mazor, Jesse Lopez   DeepSeek-R1 is an open-weights reasoning model built on DeepSeek-V3, designed for conversational…

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Google Cloud

B200 powered VM instances (c4) now available

Introducing A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 GPU aka Blackwell | Google Cloud Blog

New A4 VMs based on NVIDIA HGX B200, a.k.a., Blackwell GPUs, are well suited for AI training, fine-tuning and real-time serving.

Google Cloud

Want to switch from AWS to GCP? Google’s got a handy guide for you. First time I’ve seen something so overt directly from a Cloud provider directly. It's even marked as infrastructure modernisation, who knew AWS is legacy already 😆

AWS to Google Cloud migration guides | Google Cloud Blog

To help you in your migration journey, we published a series of reference guides about migrating from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Google Cloud.

Google Cloud