Leostream Announces Features Designed for Improved HPC on AWS EC2

BOSTON, MASS. – Leostream, a remote desktop access platform provider, has announced features designed to improve high-performance computing and imaging/video workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and deliver resources to users of virtual machines. Amazon EC2 offers resources for HPC compute and graphics rendering, primarily highly available, flexible cloud resources with scalability and redundancy. […]

@HPCpodcast: Former AWS Sustainability VP on the State of Decarbonization in HPC and IT

The growing imperative of ESG- and carbon-related issues in the HPC industry – and in IT generally – is the topic of this week’s @HPCpodcast episode (sponsored by Lenovo). Shahin and Doug speak with Adrian Cockcroft, an analyst colleague of Shahin’s at OrionX and former vice president of sustainability architecture at Amazon Web Services, where he helped customers apply sustainability practices to their businesses. The good news shared by Adrian is that Big Tech companies and IT in general are decarbonizing more effectively than had been expected a few years ago. Even as systems become denser and hotter, data centers increasingly are adopting renewable energy sources, liquid cooling and other measures that reduce usage of carbon-based energy sources. He tells us that on a per-watts basis, the IT industry has plateaued – though, of course, total watts consumed continues to climb.

Oregon Bill Would Penalize Data Centers for Failure to Meet Emissions Requirements Starting in 2027

A bill before the Oregon state legislature would penalize data centers for not meeting emissions standards starting in 2027 and could — if approved in Oregon and similar measures are adopted by other states — have significant implications for hyperscalers and HPC organizations with heavy electrical requirements. A story in yesterday’s The Oregonian reported that […]

Interview: Ansys Talks CAD/CAE in the Cloud and Ansys Gateway Powered by AWS

In this interview with Jane Trenaman, VP of portfolio product management at Ansys, she discusses the growing importance of the cloud for customers using Ansys engineering simulation and CAD/CAE software and highlights the company’s partnership with AWS and the launch of Ansys Gateway…. 

Cognigy Joins AWS Independent Software Vendor Accelerate Program

DÜSSELDORF & SAN FRANCISCO — Conversational AI company Cognigy announced today it has been selected to participate in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners. Cognigy’s acceptance into the AWS ISV Accelerate Program enables the company to collaborate more closely with the AWS organization to […]

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AWS and Start-up TidalScale: Scaling Up in the Cloud

Amazon Web Services said in a blog post today that in partnership with start-up TidalScale it has taken on the problem of scaling up on the AWS cloud platform. The result of joint work between the two companies means AWS users “can now aggregate the CPUs, memory, network, interrupts, and storage of multiple AWS bare […]

Ansys Announces Ansys Gateway on AWS

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 31, 2022 — Today Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) announced the availability of Ansys Gateway powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), which allows customers to use Ansys products in one workspace on AWS – designed to simplify access to scalable engineering solutions. Ansys Gateway powered by AWS is available in AWS Marketplace and makes it possible for […]

AWS Announces GA of EC2 Trn1 Instances for ML Model Training 

SEATTLE — Oct. 10, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips. Trn1 instances are built for high-performance training of machine learning models in the cloud. AWS said the offering saves up to 50 percent cost-to-train savings over comparable […]

@HPCpodcast: AWS, Sun, eBay, Netflix (and Others) Vet Adrian Cockcroft Talks Cloud HPC-AI and the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative

In our converesation with Adrian Cockcroft, we start with Netflix’s move to the cloud, a significant event that helped put cloud computing on the map. Then it’s on to Environment, Sustainability, and Governance (ESG), Formula-1 racing, and cloud configurations and interconnects for HPC and AI workloads. And we talk about accessing the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) and its petabytes of data, including weather observations, ocean temperatures, climate projection data and satellite imagery, used by researchers and scientists….