AWS HPC Blog
Author: Matt Koop
Matt is a Principal Engineer for the high-performance computing team at AWS. He draws on a broad set of experience in large-scale computing from both commercial and public sector to develop solutions for AWS customers. Matt holds a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from Ohio State University.
Bare metal performance with the AWS Nitro System
High Performance Computing (HPC) is known as a domain where applications are well-optimized to get the highest performance possible on a platform. Unsurprisingly, a common question when moving a workload to AWS is what performance difference there may be from an existing on-premises “bare metal” platform. This blog will show the performance differential between “bare metal” instances and instances that use the AWS Nitro hypervisor is negligible for the evaluated HPC workloads.
Numerical weather prediction on AWS Graviton2
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is a numerical weather prediction (NWP) system designed to serve both atmospheric research and operational forecasting needs. With the release of Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, a common question has been how these instances perform on large-scale NWP workloads. In this blog, we will present results from a standard WRF benchmark simulation and compare across three different instance types.