Category: Compute

In this blog post, we discuss how geoscientists can use shallow RNN-based algorithms with MATLAB to automatically recognize distinct geologic features in seismic images. We discuss the workflow for developing the AI models using MATLAB for seismic interpretation.  In a second post will introduce the various compute resources leveraged from AWS and NVIDIA for developing the models.

Since launch, EFA has seen continuous improvements in performance. In this post, we talk about our 2nd generation of EFA, which takes another step in improving Machine Learning and High Performance Computing in the Cloud.

In this post we describe the process to launch large, self-supervised training jobs using AWS ParallelCluster and Facebook’s Vision Self-Supervised Learning (VISSL) library.

Pay-as-you-go resources are a compelling but budget-limited researchers performing HPC workloads need help working within the bounds of their grants. In this post, we show how to build a real-time cost guardian for AWS Batch to help enforce those limits.

AWS ParallelCluster 3.3.0 now lets you define a list of HAQM EC2 instance types for resourcing a compute queue. This gives you more flexibility to optimize the cost and total time to solution of your HPC jobs, especially when capacity is limited or you’re using Spot Instances.

Today, we discuss AWS batch on HAQM EKS, and the initial motivation and design choices the team made when we developed the service, and some of the challenges to overcome.

In this post, we highlight a little-known configuration option for Slurm on @awscloud ParallelCluster that can reduce costs and increase your iteration speed by preventing idle batch instances from launching when EC2 capacity is limited.

Today we are excited to announce that all 9000+ applications provided by the BioContainers community are available within ECR Public Gallery! You don’t need an AWS account to access these images, but having one allows many more pulls to the internet, and unmetered usage within AWS. If you perform any sort of bioinformatics analysis on AWS, you should check it out!

In this post, we describe how to orchestrate protein folding jobs on AWS Batch. We also compare the performance of OpenFold and AlphaFold on a set of public targets. Finally, we will discuss how to optimize your protein folding costs.

AWS service teams continuously improve the underlying infrastructure and operations of managed services, and AWS Batch is no exception. The AWS Batch team recently moved most of their job scheduler fleet to a serverless infrastructure model leveraging AWS Fargate. I had a chance to sit with Devendra Chavan, Senior Software Development Engineer on the AWS Batch team, to discuss the move to AWS Fargate and its impact on the Batch managed scheduler service component.