AWS for Industries
Author: Allan Carter
Allan Carter is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS supporting the Hi-tech, Electronics, and Semiconductor industries. He has over 37 years of experience in chip development and helps customers use AWS services and solutions to optimize their development processes. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from BYU and a MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.
Reduce semiconductor design costs using Amazon EC2 Spot and Exostellar Infrastructure Optimizer
Semiconductor chip design is a compute intensive, expensive process. Exostellar is an AWS partner that developed Exostellar Infrastructure Optimizer to allow chip designers to minimize the risk of using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for long-running, stateful electronic design automation (EDA) jobs. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances can provide up to 90% discounts compared to On-Demand pricing. […]