AWS HPC Blog
Author: Alex Kimber
Alex Kimber is a Principal Solutions Architect in AWS Global Financial Services with over 20 years of experience in building and running high performance grid computing platforms in investment banks.
The frugal HPC architect – ensuring effective FinOps for HPC workloads at scale
Running High Performance Computing workloads in AWS offers immense scale and flexibility, but many on-premises approaches to cost management don’t apply in the cloud. In this post we explore the key levers to reducing unit costs, understanding consumption, and how efficiency and effectiveness are key measures of success.
The Convergent Evolution of Grid Computing in Financial Services
The Financial Services industry makes significant use of high performance computing (HPC) but it tends to be in the form of loosely coupled, embarrassingly parallel workloads to support risk modelling. The infrastructure tends to scale out to meet ever increasing demand as the analyses look at more and finer grained data. At AWS we’ve helped many customers tackle scaling challenges are noticing some common themes. In this post we describe how HPC teams are thinking about how they deliver compute capacity today, and highlight how we see the solutions converging for the future.