HPC Cloud Updates WE 29 Jun 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. We have new VM familiy in Azure, Well Architected guidelines for HPC and some interesting interconnect benchmarking
AWS
AWS points its Well Architected mission at HPC
Optimize HPC Workloads with the Updated AWS Well-Architected Lens | Amazon Web Services
Today, we’re announcing an update to the AWS Well-Architected High Performance Computing (HPC) Lens, providing you with comprehensive architectural guidance in a single, authoritative resource. This newly updated lens consolidates years of AWS HPC implementation experience into structured best practices that help you build and optimize your HPC workloads on AWS.
New instances: i7ie in Sydney, Malaysia and US-East Gov, c7i in UAE, c7g in Tel Aviv
Azure
Finally! A replacement for the aging FSv2 VM family? Well a new VM family for sure in any case, FXv2 based on 5th gen Intel Xeons. Another one to add to our benchmarking list!
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Announcing the General Availability of Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines | Microsoft Community Hub
Today, Microsoft is excited to announce the General Availability of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines (VMs), powered by the 5th Generation Intel®…
ArpitaChatterjee
FXmsv2 size series - Azure Virtual Machines
Information on and specifications of the FXmsv2-series sizes
A look at benchmarking interconnects for HPC. Nice!
Performance at Scale: The Role of Interconnects in Azure HPC & AI Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure’s high-performance computing (HPC) & AI infrastructure is designed from the ground up to support the world’s most demanding workloads.…
HugoAffaticati
Also pretty interesting, a look at the different storage capacities for EDA workloads
Benchmark Different Capacities for EDA Workloads on Microsoft HPC Storages | Microsoft Community Hub
Overview
Semiconductor (or Electronic Design Automation [EDA]) companies prioritize reducing time to market (TTM), which depends on how quickly tasks such as…
RaymondTsai
Google Cloud
Nothing to report here.
