EC2 HPC Flashcards

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What are the 4 main areas in which AWS can best help you achieve HPC?

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  • Data Transfer
  • Compute and Networking
  • Storage
  • Orchestration and Automation
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What are the services AWS offers to assist with Data Transfer for HPC?

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  • Snowball / Snowmobile (good for terabyltes / petabytes of data)
  • AWS DataSync to store on S3, EFS, FSx for Windows, etc.
  • AWS DirectConnect
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What are the services Amazon offers to assist with compute & networking for HPC?

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  • EC2 instances that are GPU- or CPU-optimized
  • EC2 fleets (Spot Instances / Spot Fleets)
  • Cluster Placement Groups
  • EN
  • ENA
  • EFA
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What are the services AWS offers to assist with storage for HPC?

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  • Instance-attached storage:
    • EBS: Scale up to 64,000 IOPS with Provisioned IOPS
    • Instance Store: Scale to millions of IOPS; low latency
  • Network Storage:
    • S3: Distributed Object-based storage; not a file system
    • EFS: Scale IOPS based on total size, or use provisioned IOPS
    • FSx for Lustre: HPC-optimized distributed file system; millions of IOPS, which is also backed by S3
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What are the services AWS offers to assist with Orchestration and Automation for HPC?

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  • AWS Batch
  • AWS ParallelCluster
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