HPC Cloud Updates WE 13 Oct 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
What kind of performance can you expect running HPC on Graviton 4?
Performance gains with AWS Graviton4 – a DevitoPRO case study | Amazon Web Services
This post was contributed by Gerard Gorman from Devito, and Cyril Lagrange, Gilles Tourpe, and Theo Wu from AWS The AWS Graviton4 processor represents a significant leap forward, with 96 Neoverse V2 cores and an enhanced memory subsystem. The 12 DDR5-5600 channels provide up to 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3 which is beneficial for […]
Running heavy on click ops and want to change that? This might help
Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available | Amazon Web Services
AWS Console-to-Code generates reusable infrastructure as code from your AWS console actions, supporting Amazon EC2, RDS, and VPC. With a few clicks, get CloudFormation, CDK (TypeScript, Python, Java), or CLI code - a game-changer for streamlining cloud automation workflows.
Need some caching for your HPC inputs? AWS released ValKey in both ElasticCache and MemoryDB flavours and its cheaper than the Redis equivalent!
Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
Announcing Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey
Azure
Azure seems to be the only cloud that hasn’t come up with a ValKey offering yet. They do have a new version of Redis for you though
Generally Available: Redis 7.2 on Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
Generally Available: Redis 7.2 on Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
If you’re having trouble connecting your on-prem machines correctly, Express Route now has a guided configuration in GA
Generally Available: ExpressRoute guided configuration experience
Generally Available: ExpressRoute guided configuration experience
Google Cloud
Want a HPC specific solution for data? ParallelStore is now GA.
Parallelstore high-performance file service for HPC and AI is GA | Google Cloud Blog
Parallelstore combines a distributed metadata and key-value architecture to deliver high-performance throughput and IOPS for HPC and AI workloads.
AI to keep an eye on your cloud bill? Sounds interesting…
Introducing Cost Anomaly Detection | Google Cloud Blog
Cost Anomaly Detection identifies anomalies in near-real-time so you can avoid surprises, take swift action and control runaway costs.
