HPC Cloud Updates WE 21 Jul 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
How to distribute binaries for HPC in FSI
Strategies for distributing executable binaries across grids in financial services | Amazon Web Services
You can boost the performance of your compute grids by strategically distributing your binaries. Our experts looked at lots of strategies for fast & efficient compute grid operations - to save you some work.
C7i-flex available in Sydney & Tokyo
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions
and high mem u-6 instances available in Jakarta
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Azure
Trusted launch comes to both Gen 1 & 2 Azure VMs
Public Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1/Gen2 VMSS to Gen2-Trusted launch
Public Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1/Gen2 VMSS to Gen2-Trusted launch
Using any Azure Functions in your HPC Batch? Running .Net code? Now you can use .NET 8
Generally Available: Support for .NET 8 using the in-process model in Azure Functions
Generally Available: Support for .NET 8 using the in-process model in Azure Functions
and then trigger your functions based on updates to your Valkey .. I mean Redis..cache
Generally Available: Redis extension for Azure Functions
Generally Available: Redis extension for Azure Functions
GCP
Committed use discounts get a bit more flexible
Compute Flexible CUD expands to GKE Autopilot and Cloud Run | Google Cloud Blog
The Compute Flexible CUD covers Cloud Run, most GKE Autopilot Pods and the premiums for Autopilot Performance and Accelerator compute classes.
Cloud Studio SQL is GA for Postgres & MySQL
Manage your data using Cloud SQL Studio | Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL | Google Cloud
