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Announcing Capacity Blocks support for AWS Parallel Computing Service

Announcing Capacity Blocks support for AWS Parallel Computing Service

This post was contributed by by Kareem Abdol-Hamid, Kyle Bush Today we’re happy to announce that support for Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for Machine Learning are now supported in AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS). This allows you to reserve and schedule GPU-accelerated Amazon EC2 instances for future use. That includes the NVIDIA Hopper GPU […]

Introducing “default” instance categories for AWS Batch

Today, we are launching a new set of instance family categories for AWS Batch, “default_x86_64” and “default_arm64″. These new categories represent both a clarification and an improvement upon the existing “optimal” instance type category. This blog post gives some background on the new feature and how you can configure your Batch environments to take advantage […]

Enabling Rapid Genomic and Multiomic Data Analysis with Illumina DRAGEN™ v4.4 on Amazon EC2 F2 Instances

Streamline your genomic and multiomic data analysis with DRAGEN on Amazon EC2 F2 instances. Our latest blog post explores the performance benefits of this hardware-accelerated solution, helping you unlock insights faster.

Optimize your CAE/CFD workloads with Amazon FSx for Lustre Data Repository Association

HPC customers in automotive and manufacturing love Amazon FSx for Lustre because it combines a managed, easy-to-use service with the power of a high throughput parallel file system. Moreover, FSx for Lustre has a native integration with Amazon S3, our object storage service that is designed for durability and low cost. You can link your […]

Optimize HPC Workloads with the Updated AWS Well-Architected Lens

Today, we’re announcing an update to the AWS Well-Architected High Performance Computing (HPC) Lens, providing you with comprehensive architectural guidance in a single, authoritative resource. This newly updated lens consolidates years of AWS HPC implementation experience into structured best practices that help you build and optimize your HPC workloads on AWS.

Leveraging LLMs as an Augmentation to Traditional Hyperparameter Tuning

When seeking to improve machine learning model performance, hyperparameter tuning is often the go-to recommendation. However, this approach faces significant limitations, particularly for complex models requiring extensive training times. In this post, we’ll explore a novel approach that combines gradient norm analysis with Large Language Model (LLM) guidance to intelligently redesign neural network architectures. This […]

How Novo Nordisk, Columbia University and AWS collaborated to create OpenFold3 with the OpenFold AI Consortium

In this blog post, we’re excited to share how Novo Nordisk, Columbia University and AWS collaborated to create OpenFold3, a state-of-the-art protein structure prediction model, using cost-effective and scalable bioinformatics solutions on AWS.