Starting today, Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). With a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz, Hpc8a instances deliver up to 40% higher performance and up to 25% better price performance compared to Hpc7a instances, helping customers accelerate compute-intensive workloads while optimizing costs. Compared to Hpc7a instances, Hpc8a instances also provide up to 42% higher memory bandwidth, further improving performance for memory-intensive simulations and scientific computing workloads.
Built on the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, Hpc8a instances are designed for compute-intensive, latency-sensitive HPC workloads. They are ideal for tightly coupled applications such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), weather forecasting, explicit finite element analysis (FEA), and multiphysics simulations that require fast inter-node communication and consistent high performance.
To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instance page or AWS news blog.
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Source: Amazon Web Services
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