HPC Cloud Updates WE 03 Nov 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
Need to validate your EC2 scale out was successful before before using it? New auto scaling gives you final validation
EC2 m8g instances now available in Dallas
Having trouble nailing your IO latencies? CloudWatch for EBS might help
r7gd now in available in Jakarta, UAE and GovCloud
Azure
Resize your SSDs without stopping the instance
and those SSDs in v2 form are now available in more places too
Google Cloud
Google copies the automotive world and coins the term hypercomputer. And throws in AI for good measure. Yes, they invented the AI Hypercomputer.
Except its not a computer. It’s a collection of Google Cloud tech to let you build your own large scale compute. Would the marketers at Google please step away from the AI Hype Machine (patent pending).
I wonder if there’s a (negative) correlation between the amount of hype foisted upon us and the actual utility of the product.
Axion (ARM) powered c4a compute instances now generally available)
