HPC Cloud Updates WE 25 Aug 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
Running reservoir sims on AWS? Maybe give p5 instances a go?
How to improve reservoir simulation throughput using P5 instances | Amazon Web Services
Reservoir simulation is critical for energy companies, but running scenarios can be time consuming. Find out how you can improve your SLB INTERSECT simulations by 10x with AWS.
Asia Pacific Malaysia region now online
Now open — AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region | Amazon Web Services
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region bolsters cloud innovation, empowering local businesses and government initiatives while aligning with Malaysia’s sustainability goals through Amazon’s renewable energy commitment.
Jeff Barr
c7i-flex is slowly making the rounds. Now available in US East too
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) Region
S3 has finally fixed the loophole around being charged for HTTP 403 error responses.
Amazon S3 no longer charges for several HTTP error codes - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon S3 no longer charges for several HTTP error codes
Azure
Scale sets are slowly morphing into something very useful to controlling large scale compute. Flex scale sets now allow multiple different types and sizes of VMs (In Public Preview)
Public Preview: Instance Mix on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Public Preview: Instance Mix on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
and also attach and detach machines (GA)
Public Preview: Attach and detach of VMs on Virtual Machine Scale Sets for a single fault domain
Public Preview: Attach and detach of VMs on Virtual Machine Scale Sets for a single fault domain
GCP
New C4 VM types are GA. Based on Intel’s 5th gen Xeon (Emerald Rapids) Xeon CPUs
C4 machine series is now GA | Google Cloud Blog
Announcing the GA of the C4 machine series, the most performant general-purpose VM for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
We really need to get some benchmark stats out for these!
