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High Performance Computing

Computer and Networking​

  • EC2 Instances: CPU/GPU optimized, Spot Instances/Fleets
  • EC2 Placement Groups: Cluster for good network performance.
  • EC2 Enhanced Networking: Elastic Network Adaptor (ENA)
  • Elastic Fabric Adapptor (EFA): Only for Linux, leverages Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard.

Storage​

  • Instance-attached Storage: EBS, Instance Store
  • Network Storage: Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx for Lustre

Automation and Orchestration​

  • AWS Batch: Multi-node parallel jobs
  • AWS ParallelCluster: enable EFA to improve network performance