HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Jun 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Quieter than I thought but Google have a couple of new toys to show off.
AWS
Urgh. AWS have “improved” their updates page…. Sure this new version looks prettier, but if what you actually cared about was efficiently extracting information from it then this is definitely worse. Sigh.
New instances: i8g in Ireland
Azure
Part 2 on how to recover from failing GPU clusters
Building an Automated Recovery Pipeline for GPU Clusters with Slurm on Azure Part 2 | Microsoft Community Hub
Disclaimer: The slurm-cluster-health-manager project is a sample tool created specifically for the article it accompanies. This is not an official Microsoft…
HiroshiTanaka
Gromacs on EESSI
Using Gromacs through EESSI on NC_A100_v4 | Microsoft Community Hub
We have been showing in earlier blogs how to use EESSI for getting access to highly optimized applications for different cpu architectures, e.g.: Accessing…
Hugo_Meiland
New 4th Gen AMD (Genoa) storage focused VM SKUs
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Google Cloud
New AMD Turin and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 powered VMs
Introducing G4 VM with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 | Google Cloud Blog
New G4 VMs based on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server edition round out the Compute Engine GPU portfolio for developers and creators.
High memory VMs too
M4 VMs are designed for memory-intensive workloads like SAP | Google Cloud Blog
Compute Engine M4 VMs are designed for workloads like SAP HANA, SQL Server, and in-memory analytics that benefit from a high memory-to-core ratio.
