AWS HPC Blog

Mark Norton

Author: Mark Norton

Mark is a Principal HPC Specialist at AWS, bringing over 30 years of expertise in high performance computing, working with customers across financial services, automotive, and research to transform challenging computational workloads. Mark specializes in architecting scalable cloud solutions on AWS that optimize performance and drive strategic technological advantages.

Characteristics of financial services HPC workloads in the cloud

This blog post will explore the technical attributes of computationally demanding high performance computing (HPC) workloads within the financial services sector. By examining the key characteristics of your workloads, we will guide you through a decision tree approach to help determine the most suitable HPC platform for the cloud – whether it be a commercial vendor solution, open-source option, or a fully cloud-native implementation.