New purpose-built Amazon EC2 instances for HPC
workloads deliver up to 65% better price performance compared to
similar compute-optimized Amazon EC2 instances
Maxar Technologies, DTN, and TotalCAE among
customers and partners using Hpc6a instances
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc.
company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc6a instances, a new
instance type that is purpose-built for tightly coupled high
performance computing (HPC) workloads. Hpc6a instances, powered by
3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, expand AWS’s portfolio of HPC compute
options and deliver up to 65% better price performance compared to
similar compute-optimized Amazon EC2 instances that customers use
for HPC workloads today. Hpc6a instances make it even more
cost-efficient for customers to scale HPC clusters on AWS to run
their most compute-intensive workloads like genomics, computational
fluid dynamics, weather forecasting, molecular dynamics,
computational chemistry, financial risk modeling, computer-aided
engineering, and seismic imaging. Hpc6a instances are available on
demand via a low-cost, pay-as-you-go usage model with no upfront
commitments. To get started with Hpc6a instances, visit
aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/hpc6.
Organizations across numerous sectors rely on HPC to solve their
most complex academic, scientific, and business problems. However,
effectively using HPC is expensive because it requires the ability
to process large amounts of data, which demands an abundance of
compute power, fast memory and storage, and low-latency networking
within HPC clusters. Some organizations build infrastructure on
premises to run HPC workloads, but that involves expensive upfront
capital investment, lengthy procurement cycles, ongoing management
of overhead to monitor hardware and keep software up to date, and
limited flexibility when the infrastructure inevitably becomes
obsolete and must be upgraded. Customers across many industries run
their HPC workloads in the cloud to take advantage of the superior
security, scalability, and elasticity it offers. Engineers,
researchers, and scientists rely on AWS to run their largest and
most complex HPC workloads and choose Amazon EC2 instances with
senhanced networking (e.g. C5n, R5n, M5n, and C6gn) to scale
tightly coupled HPC workloads that require high levels of
inter-instance communications with thousands of interdependent
tasks. While the performance of these instances is sufficient for
most HPC use cases, as workloads further scale to solve
increasingly difficult problems, customers are looking to maximize
price performance as they run HPC workloads that can grow to tens
of thousands of servers on AWS.
New Hpc6a instances are purpose-built to offer the best price
performance for running HPC workloads at scale in the cloud. Hpc6a
instances deliver up to 65% better price performance for HPC
workloads to carry out complex calculations across a range of
cluster sizes—up to tens of thousands of cores. Hpc6a instances are
enabled with Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)—a network interface for
Amazon EC2 instances—by default. With EFA networking, customers
benefit from low latency, low jitter, and up to 100 Gbps of EFA
networking bandwidth to increase operational efficiency and drive
faster time-to-results for workloads that rely on inter-instance
communications. Hpc6a instances are powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC
processors that run at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz and provide 384 GB
of memory. Using Hpc6a instances, customers can more
cost-effectively tackle their biggest and most difficult academic,
scientific, and business problems with HPC, and realize the
benefits of AWS with superior price performance.
“By consistently innovating and creating new purpose-built
Amazon EC2 instances for virtually every type of workload, AWS
customers have realized huge price performance benefits for some of
today’s most business-critical applications. While high performance
computing has helped solve some of the most difficult problems in
science, engineering, and business, effectively running HPC
workloads can be cost-prohibitive for many organizations,” said
David Brown, Vice President of Amazon EC2 at AWS. “Purpose-built
for HPC workloads, Hpc6a instances now help customers realize up to
65% better price performance for their HPC clusters at virtually
any scale, so they can focus on solving the biggest problems that
matter to them most without the cost barriers that exist
today.”
“We are excited to continue our momentum with AWS and provide
their customers with this new, powerful instance for high
performance computing workloads,” said Dan McNamara, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Server Business at AMD. “AMD EPYC
processors are helping customers of all sizes solve some of their
biggest and most complex problems. From small universities to
enterprises to large research facilities, Hpc6a instances powered
by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors open up the world of powerful HPC
performance with cloud scalability to more customers around the
world.”
Customers can use Hpc6a instances with AWS ParallelCluster (an
open-source cluster management tool) to provision Hpc6a instances
alongside other instance types, giving customers the flexibility to
run different workload types optimized for different instances
within the same HPC cluster. Hpc6a instances benefit from the AWS
Nitro System, a collection of building blocks that offload many of
the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware and
software to deliver high performance, high availability, and
increased security while also reducing virtualization overhead.
Hpc6a instances are available for purchase as On-Demand Instances
or Reserved Instances, or with Savings Plans. Hpc6a instances are
available in US East (Ohio) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), with
availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.
Maxar partners with innovative businesses and more than 50
governments to monitor global change, deliver broadband
communications, and advance space operations with capabilities in
Space Infrastructure and Earth Intelligence. “Amazon EC2 Hpc6a
instances are yet another exciting announcement from AWS that
enables Maxar to continue to meet and exceed our customer
requirements for big compute workflows—whether to accelerate the
research and operations of Numerical Weather Prediction workloads
or to create the world’s best, most up-to-date, and accurate
digital twin models with our Maxar Precision3D product suite,” said
Dan Nord, SVP and Chief Product Officer at Maxar Technologies.
“Hpc6a’s AMD EPYC processors combined with the EFA networking
capability provide us a 60% performance improvement over
alternatives, while also being more cost efficient. This enables
Maxar to strategically choose among the suite of AWS HPC cluster
configurations that we’ve developed to best suit our clients’ needs
while maximizing flexibility and resiliency.”
DTN’s global weather station network delivers hyper-local,
accurate, and real-time weather intelligence to empower
organizations with actionable insights. “Our collaboration with AWS
allows us to better serve our customers with high-resolution
weather prediction systems that feed analytics engines,” said Lars
Ewe, Chief Technology Officer at DTN. “We’re very excited to see
the price performance of Hpc6a instances, and we expect this to be
our go-to Amazon EC2 instance choice for HPC workloads going
forward.”
TotalCAE has over 20 years of experience with HPC for
computer-aided engineering (CAE). TotalCAE helps eliminate IT
headaches by professionally managing customers’ HPC engineering
environment and engineering applications so they can focus on
engineering, and not IT. “TotalCAE Platform makes it easy for CAE
departments to adopt the agility and flexibility of AWS in just a
few clicks for hundreds of engineering applications like Ansys
Fluent, Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+, and Dassault Systèmes Abaqus,”
said Rod Mach, President at TotalCAE. “As an AWS HPC Competency
Partner, we help customers run their CAE workloads in the cloud.
With HPC6a instances, we have seen up to a 30% performance boost
for computational fluid dynamics workloads at a lower cost,
enabling TotalCAE to offer customers industry leading price
performance and scalability in the cloud.”
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