HPC Cloud Updates WE 18 Aug 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
AWS Batch as used by Amazon Retail. Another example of the everything giant eating its own dog food
How Amazon optimizes their supply chain with help from AWS Batch | Amazon Web Services
This post was contributed by Michael Stalcup, Software Development Engineer at Amazon, and Angel Pizarro, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS. Amazon’s retail business, with its millions of products coming from hundreds of thousands of sellers, is in a constant state of optimization. It’s no surprise that there is team whose core mission is to provide […]
g6e instances with NIVIDIA L40S GPUs are now GA
Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances
Split, Move, Modify and do the hokey kokey with your EC2 reservations
New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes
Cancel your queued jobs in AWS Batch (how did they not have this till now!?)
Announcing General Availability of Attach & Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Announcing General Availability of Attach & Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration Mode and Fault Domain…
Azure
Help CISO rest easy, multiple levels of encryption for NetApp
Generally Available: Double encryption at-rest for Azure NetApp Files
Generally Available: Double encryption at-rest for Azure NetApp Files
Attach and detach your VMs from Flex VMSS (why wasn’t this included in the Azure Updates page?)
Announcing General Availability of Attach & Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Announcing General Availability of Attach & Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration Mode and Fault Domain…
GCP
Want to improve your performance on Intel and you’re not already using MPI? Here’s a guide on how to adopt it on Google Cloud
How the Intel MPI Library boosts HPC performance | Google Cloud Blog
Support for Intel MPI in third-generation Compute Engine machine families like H3 delivers improved performance for demanding HPC workloads.
