HPC Cloud Updates WE 08 Mar 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. More details on the H4D and HPC8a this week.
AWS
Some benchmark comparisons of the latest HPC8a for engineering and scientific compute
A Technical Deep Dive into Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Performance for Engineering and Scientific Workloads | Amazon Web Services
High performance computing (HPC) workloads continue to grow in scale and complexity. Whether simulating airflow over an aircraft wing, modeling structural behavior under load, or performing crash simulation and multi-physics analysis, these workloads demand sustained compute throughput, high memory bandwidth, and efficient scaling across large clusters. Improvements in any one of these dimensions can reduce […]
AWS Batch lets you delay spinning down for better performance with intermittent workloads
AWS Batch now supports configurable scale down delay - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Batch now supports configurable scale down delay
New Regional Instances: R8g in Middle East, Mexico and Zurich, M8g in Cape Town, Malaysia, Milan, Zurich and Calgary
Azure
Seems rather quiet over at Redmond and not just in HPC.
Google Cloud
Technically the H4D was released last week as regular readers will have seen and whilst I questioned the lack of fanfare Google have addressed that this week
New H4D VMs optimized for HPC | Google Cloud Blog
H4D VMs designed for tightly coupled HPC workloads with significant performance gains resulting in faster time to solutions.
