HPC Cloud Updates WE 17 Nov 2024

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

HPC Cloud Updates WE 17 Nov 2024

AWS

Handy guide on using CloudInstanceOptimizer to optmise your AWS workloads

Optimizing compute-intensive tasks on AWS | Amazon Web Services
Optimizing workloads for performance and cost-effectiveness is crucial for businesses of all sizes – and especially helpful for workloads in the cloud, where there are a lot of levers you can pull to tune how things run. AWS offers a vast array of instance types in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – each with […]

NVIDIA L4 GPUs now available in GovCloud US West in the form of EC2 G6 instances

Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Upto 1 million S3 buckets per account. Might help with somewhere to dump all those results 😆

Amazon S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per AWS account - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per AWS account

EC2 capacity blocks to reserve GPUs now available in Oregon and Tokyo

Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks expands to new regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks expands to new regions

Azure

I think the biggest update is that the new Azure Updates site seems to finally have been released! Sadly they still haven’t given us a filter for all things HPC option. IoT, sure. Networking, you’re golden. HPC? Go Fish.

Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Want to see if the new Intel SKUs are any good for your FSI workload? Dr Darko’s got you covered

Benchmarking 6th gen. Intel-based Dv6 (preview) VM SKUs for HPC Workloads in Financial Services | Microsoft Community Hub
Introduction   In the fast-paced world of Financial Services, High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems in the cloud have become indispensable. From…

Google Cloud

Google seem to be getting out ahead of SC24 with this announcement

What’s new with HPC | Google Cloud Blog
As we get ready for Supercomputing 2024 in Atlanta, here are the latest developments from Google Cloud in the high performance computing space.

They’ve also launched a community initiative to drive HPC

Google Cloud Advanced Computing Community

IBM Cloud

IBM provide a VPC Private Path for secure connectivity to their cloud

Introducing IBM Cloud VPC Private Path: Private connectivity and secure access to services on IBM Cloud