HPC Cloud Updates WE 29 Sep 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
AI and HPC are often cited in the same breath but usually that’s just HPC hanging on to AI’s coat tails for a bit of attention. Here’s an actual use of AI in a typically HPC use case and in financial services no less
Using PCS? You’ll need to build your own AMI… but please no one, and I mean NO ONE pronounces it ah mee!
AWS continues to drop services, say goodbye to NICE EnginFramework
More new Graviton Instances. c8g and m8g types are now GA
AWS Parallel Cluster (other HPC service with PC in its acronym) version 3.11 is now available
FSx for Lustre adds server and disk level utilisation metrics
g6 instances are now available in Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Malaysia and central Canada
AWS takes another step to making IPv6 a genuine alternative to IPv4
Azure
Just in case you’re mad enough to run HPC on Azure functions, .NET 9.0 is now available on Linux
Public Preview of new Intel Emerald Rapids VMs! FXmsv2 family announced
Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT v1 for VMSS is being retired, but not till September 2026
Azure Cache for Redis now available in a smaller tier for Enterprise customers. Might be a fit for your HPC data sources?
Google Cloud
ValKey (and its ailing doppelganger Redis) now have vector search support in Memorystore
