HPC Cloud Updates WE 08 Dec 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
There was no shortage of news this week from AWS having been the week of re:Invent. Just the HPC specific bits below though, see your usual favourite tech news site for an update on all the rest (including AI related news). Or just see AWS’ own post.
AWS Editorial Team
Want to build a high speed file cache on AWS for $4 an hour? They’ve got a handy blog for that now. Using just an EC2 instance instead of one of their service based offerings.
New NVIDIA H200 based p5en EC2 instances with EFAv3 networking
Channy Yun (윤석찬)
and trn2 based instances for AI training
Jeff Barr
Not directly HPC related but possibly quite useful for shovelling data around in HPC contexts, S3 now has tabular data and queryable objects and you can also browse them a bit more easily now. Cheap results store anyone?
Jeff Barr
Jeff Barr
Paris gets some HPC specific EC2 instance, hpc6id and hpc7a more specifically
New storage optimised Graviton based i8 EC2 instances now also available but only N. Virginia and Oregon for now
Again, not HPC specific but this has the potential to make like and creating landing zones in large orgs (including those that run HPC in multiple applications for example) easier
Azure
Two weeks. That’s how long the new Azure updates site has managed to stay up for. It’s now dead. I’d like to tell you what’s new, but Microsoft don’t seem to want to tell me so I can’t.
Maybe they just figured with re:Invent going on now would be a good time to take a break.
Google Cloud
Registration for Google Cloud Next is now open if that’s your thing
New region launched in Mexico!
