AWS HPC Blog

Category: Best Practices

Characteristics of financial services HPC workloads in the cloud

This blog post will explore the technical attributes of computationally demanding high performance computing (HPC) workloads within the financial services sector. By examining the key characteristics of your workloads, we will guide you through a decision tree approach to help determine the most suitable HPC platform for the cloud – whether it be a commercial vendor solution, open-source option, or a fully cloud-native implementation.

Enhancing Equity Strategy Backtesting with Synthetic Data: An Agent-Based Model Approach – part 2

Developing robust investment strategies requires thorough testing, but relying solely on historical data can introduce biases and limit your insights. Learn how synthetic data from agent-based models can provide an unbiased testbed to systematically evaluate your strategies and prepare for future market scenarios. Part 2 covers implementation details and results.

Enhancing Equity Strategy Backtesting with Synthetic Data: An Agent-Based Model Approach

Developing robust investment strategies requires thorough testing, but relying solely on historical data can introduce biases and limit your insights. Learn how synthetic data from agent-based models can provide an unbiased testbed to systematically evaluate your strategies and prepare for future market scenarios. Part 1 of 2 covers the theoretical foundations of the approach.

Improve engineering productivity using AWS Engineering License Management

Improve engineering productivity using AWS Engineering License Management

This post was contributed by Eran Brown, Principal Engagement Manager, Prototyping Team, Vedanth Srinivasan, Head of Solutions, Engineering & Design, Edmund Chute, Specialist SA, Solution Builder, Priyanka Mahankali, Senior specialist SA, Emerging Domains For engineering companies, the cost of Computer Aided Design and Engineering (CAD/CAE) tools can as high as 20% of product development cost. […]

Optimizing compute-intensive tasks on AWS

Optimizing compute-intensive tasks on AWS

Optimizing workloads for performance and cost-effectiveness is crucial for businesses of all sizes – and especially helpful for workloads in the cloud, where there are a lot of levers you can pull to tune how things run. AWS offers a vast array of instance types in HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) – each with […]