AWS meeting 2024 10 24

EESSI/AWS sync meetings

• link to AWS project doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CHG9fCh2LkfJ-EI8J-_Wr5NpHL5iwm8Wu6syfK9h7-c

Next meeting

• quarterly

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Notes 24 Oct 2024 (11:00 UTC)

attending:

• Brendan (AWS)

• Pedro (HPCNow!)

• Alan (CECAM/EESSI)

• Kenneth (HPC-UGent/EESSI)

• PR open to AWS Recipes to make EESSI available

  • see https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-hpc-recipes/pull/40
  • post-install script for ParallelCluster
  • Alan spent some time on looking into performance comparison with Spack, but took a long time

• new AWS service: PCS (sort of a managed ParallelCluster service)

  • waiting on CloudFormation support to fully automate it, 1-click launch of a cluster

• support architectures

  • Graviton 4 is quite close to NVIDIA Grace
  • significant speedup with Graviton 4

• credits

  • Brendan will top up sponsored credits for next year

• SC24

  • no customer talks at AWS booth

• Tech Short with update on EESSI

  • scheduled for Thu 28 Nov

• HPSF

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Notes previous meetings

• 14 Mar 2024: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/AWS-meeting-2024-03-14
• 12 Oct 2023: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/AWS-meeting-2023-10-12
• 14 Sept 2023: no notes were taken :(
• 10 Aug 2023: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/AWS-meeting-2023-08-10
• July 2023: (skipped)
• 8 June 2023: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/AWS-meeting-2023-06-08
• 11 May 2023: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/AWS-meeting-2023-05-11
• 13 April 2023: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/AWS-meeting-2023-04-13
• 9 Mar 2023: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/AWS-meeting-2023-03-09
• 11 Jan 2023: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/AWS-meeting-2023-01-11