AWS Storage Blog
Category: High Performance Computing
Migrating SAS grid to the cloud: How Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering delivers low cost, high performance, storage
For nearly two decades, organizations across healthcare, drug discovery, and financial services have relied on SAS Grid to power their most critical analytics workloads. SAS Grid (formally known as SAS Grid Manager) is an enterprise software platform developed by SAS Institute that distributes and manages large-scale analytical workloads across a cluster of servers. It acts […]
Reduce burst render times with Amazon File Cache
In the fast-paced world of movie-making, time is money. Modern films and TV shows can have hundreds, or thousands, of Visual Effects (VFX) shots that need to be created and finalized on tight deadlines. The creation of the final images where geometry, textures, lighting, and other elements are combined for a high-resolution output, a process […]
Persistent storage for high-performance workloads using Amazon FSx for Lustre
High-performance file systems are often divided into two types: scratch and persistent. Scratch file systems provide temporary storage with high-performance characteristics such as submillisecond latency, up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput, and millions of IOPS for short-term workloads. By contrast, persistent file systems are designed to combine the performance levels of their […]