HPC Cloud Updates WE 28 Jul 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
Want to play with Llama 3.1 (including 405B) on AWS? It’s is now on Bedrock.
Looking to deploy your HPC cache in Jakarta? d3en instances now available
Azure
Really wish they’d sort out Azure Updates. Pretty terrible it’s been semi functional for this long.
Public preview of sixth gen Intel Emerald Rapids based VMs is now available! Esv6 and Dsv6 variants are both available in US East and US West.
Need to upgrade your disk to something faster and still doing clickops? This might help then:
GCP
Want to let your Llamas roam free somewhere other than in AWS’ clouds? Google has you covered!
If high performance file systems are your thing (and lets face it, too many HPC applications still rely on a basic filesystem) then this might make for interesting reading:
