HPC Cloud Updates WE 21 Jul 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Cloud Studio SQL is GA for Postgres & MySQL
Manage your data using Cloud SQL Studio | Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL | Google Cloud
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