AWS HPC Blog

Category: Best Practices

Optimizing compute-intensive tasks on AWS

Optimizing compute-intensive tasks on AWS

Optimizing workloads for performance and cost-effectiveness is crucial for businesses of all sizes – and especially helpful for workloads in the cloud, where there are a lot of levers you can pull to tune how things run. AWS offers a vast array of instance types in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – each with […]

Cross-account HPC cluster monitoring using Amazon EventBridge

Cross-account HPC cluster monitoring using Amazon EventBridge

Managing extensive HPC workflows? This post details how to monitor resource consumption without compromising security. Check it out for a customizable reference architecture that sends only relevant data to your monitoring account.

Create a Slurm cluster for semiconductor design with AWS ParallelCluster

Create a Slurm cluster for semiconductor design with AWS ParallelCluster

If you work in the semiconductor industry with electronic design automation tools and workflows, this guide will help you build an HPC cluster on AWS specifically configured for your needs. It covers AWS ParallelCluster and customizations specifically to cater to EDA.

Optimizing your AWS Batch architecture for scale with observability dashboards

AWS Batch customers often ask for guidance to optimize their architectures and make their workload to scale rapidly. Here we describe an observability solution that provides insights into your AWS Batch architectures and allows you to optimize them for scale and quickly identify potential throughput bottlenecks for jobs and instances.

Accelerating Genomics Pipelines Using Intel’s Open Omics Acceleration Framework on AWS

In this blog, we showcase the first version of Open Omics and benchmark three applications that are used in processing NGS data – sequence alignment tools BWA-MEM, minimap2, and single cell ATAC-Seq on Xeon-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Instances.