HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Dec 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
Work in Financial Services? Thinking of using AWS Batch? Here’s an example
How BAM supercharged large scale research with AWS Batch | Amazon Web Services
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), a $22B global investment firm, faced a unique challenge: how to empower 160 investment teams to conduct cutting-edge research across six strategies. Discover how they leveraged AWS Batch and Amazon EKS to supercharge their research capabilities.
New FPGAa available on EC2
Now Available – Second-Generation FPGA-Powered Amazon EC2 instances (F2) | Amazon Web Services
Accelerate genomics, multimedia, big data, networking, and more with up to 192 vCPUs, 8 FPGAs, 2TiB memory, and 100Gbps network – outpacing CPUs by up to 95x.
Jeff Barr
Amazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally available - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally available
Bandwidth configuration on AWS Graviton 8th gen EC2 instances now available
Amazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS
Direct Connect available at Telehouse, Osaka
AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Osaka, Japan - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Osaka, Japan
A bunch of new EC2 instance types available in new regions m7i and m7i-flex in Jakarta, m8g in Spain, r8g in Tokyo, c6in and m6in in Dallas
Amazon EC2 M7i-flex & M7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M7i-flex & M7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Spain) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Spain)
Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Introducing Amazon EC2 C6in and M6in Instances in Dallas Local Zone - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Introducing Amazon EC2 C6in and M6in Instances in Dallas Local Zone
Azure
New region now online in New Zealand
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Using Azure Blob storage? Need more throughput?
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Google Cloud
Well they released Willow if somehow you missed that... not sure how useful that is to anyone in the real world but there's plenty of talk about it this week.
Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
Hartmut Neven
