SR-IOV availability on InfiniBand-equipped Virtual Machines

By Dustin Ward

We are upgrading the virtualization technology through which customer VMs can access our high-bandwidth, low-latency InfiniBand network on our RDMA-enabled VM Sizes. By enabling SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization), customers will be able to use any MPI (Message Passing Interface) implementation or InfiniBand verb set, greatly increasing ability and options for leveraging Infiniband for their…

Using cost allocation tags with AWS ParallelCluster

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUsing cost allocation tags with AWS ParallelCluster This post is courtesy of Dario La Porta, Senior Consultant, HPC. With high performance computing (HPC) workloads running in the AWS Cloud, customers can scale workloads easily and select from a variety of instance types. With this additional flexibility, elasticity, and scale, it’s important to…

Improve VPN Network Performance of AWS Hybrid Cloud with Global Accelerator

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedImprove VPN Network Performance of AWS Hybrid Cloud with Global Accelerator Introduction Connecting on-premises data centers to AWS using AWS Site-to-Site VPN to support distributed applications is a common practice. With business expansion and acquisitions, your company’s on-premises IT footprint may grow into various geographies, with these multiple sites comprising of on-premises…