Best HPC Software for Cloud
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What is HPC Software for Cloud?
High-Performance Computing (HPC) software are applications designed to maximize computational power, enabling complex and resource-intensive tasks to be executed efficiently. These programs optimize parallel processing, often leveraging supercomputers or distributed computing clusters to solve problems in fields like scientific research, engineering, and data analytics. HPC software includes components for workload management, data communication, and performance tuning, ensuring scalability and efficient resource utilization. Examples include simulation software, machine learning frameworks, and tools for weather modeling or molecular dynamics. By harnessing advanced algorithms and hardware, HPC software accelerates computation, reducing the time required for tasks that would otherwise take weeks or months on conventional systems. Compare and read user reviews of the best HPC software for Cloud currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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UberCloud
Simr (formerly UberCloud)
Simr (formerly UberCloud) is a cutting-edge platform for Simulation Operations Automation (SimOps). It streamlines and automates complex simulation workflows, enhancing productivity and collaboration. Leveraging cloud-based infrastructure, Simr offers scalable, cost-effective solutions for industries like automotive, aerospace, and electronics. Trusted by leading global companies, Simr empowers engineers to innovate efficiently and effectively. Simr supports a variety of CFD, FEA and other CAE software including Ansys, COMSOL, Abaqus, CST, STAR-CCM+, MATLAB, Lumerical and more. Simr automates every major cloud including Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google GCP. -
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Intel Tiber AI Cloud
Intel
Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud is a powerful platform designed to scale AI workloads with advanced computing resources. It offers specialized AI processors, such as the Intel Gaudi AI Processor and Max Series GPUs, to accelerate model training, inference, and deployment. Optimized for enterprise-level AI use cases, this cloud solution enables developers to build and fine-tune models with support for popular libraries like PyTorch. With flexible deployment options, secure private cloud solutions, and expert support, Intel Tiber™ ensures seamless integration, fast deployment, and enhanced model performance.Starting Price: Free -
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Google Cloud GPUs
Google
Speed up compute jobs like machine learning and HPC. A wide selection of GPUs to match a range of performance and price points. Flexible pricing and machine customizations to optimize your workload. High-performance GPUs on Google Cloud for machine learning, scientific computing, and 3D visualization. NVIDIA K80, P100, P4, T4, V100, and A100 GPUs provide a range of compute options to cover your workload for each cost and performance need. Optimally balance the processor, memory, high-performance disk, and up to 8 GPUs per instance for your individual workload. All with the per-second billing, so you only pay only for what you need while you are using it. Run GPU workloads on Google Cloud Platform where you have access to industry-leading storage, networking, and data analytics technologies. Compute Engine provides GPUs that you can add to your virtual machine instances. Learn what you can do with GPUs and what types of GPU hardware are available.Starting Price: $0.160 per GPU -
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Covalent
Agnostiq
Covalent’s serverless HPC architecture allows you to easily scale jobs from your laptop to your HPC/Cloud. Covalent is a Pythonic workflow tool for computational scientists, AI/ML software engineers, and anyone who needs to run experiments on limited or expensive computing resources including quantum computers, HPC clusters, GPU arrays, and cloud services. Covalent enables a researcher to run computation tasks on an advanced hardware platform – such as a quantum computer or serverless HPC cluster – using a single line of code. The latest release of Covalent includes two new feature sets and three major enhancements. True to its modular nature, Covalent now allows users to define custom pre- and post-hooks to electrons to facilitate various use cases from setting up remote environments (using DepsPip) to running custom functions.Starting Price: Free -
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Lustre
OpenSFS and EOFS
The Lustre file system is an open-source, parallel file system that supports many requirements of leadership class HPC simulation environments. Whether you’re a member of our diverse development community or considering the Lustre file system as a parallel file system solution, these pages offer a wealth of resources and support to meet your needs. The Lustre file system provides a POSIX-compliant file system interface, which can scale to thousands of clients, petabytes of storage, and hundreds of gigabytes per second of I/O bandwidth. The key components of the Lustre file system are the Metadata Servers (MDS), the Metadata Targets (MDT), Object Storage Servers (OSS), Object Server Targets (OST), and the Lustre clients. Lustre is purpose-built to provide a coherent, global POSIX-compliant namespace for very large-scale computer infrastructure, including the world's largest supercomputer platforms. It can support hundreds of petabytes of data storage.Starting Price: Free -
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TrinityX
Cluster Vision
TrinityX is an open source cluster management system developed by ClusterVision, designed to provide 24/7 oversight for High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) environments. It offers a dependable, SLA-compliant support system, allowing users to focus entirely on their research while managing complex technologies such as Linux, SLURM, CUDA, InfiniBand, Lustre, and Open OnDemand. TrinityX streamlines cluster deployment through an intuitive interface, guiding users step-by-step to configure clusters for diverse uses like container orchestration, traditional HPC, and InfiniBand/RDMA architectures. Leveraging the BitTorrent protocol, enables rapid deployment of AI/HPC nodes, accommodating setups in minutes. The platform provides a comprehensive dashboard offering real-time insights into cluster metrics, resource utilization, and workload distribution, facilitating the identification of bottlenecks and optimization of resource allocation.Starting Price: Free -
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Qlustar
Qlustar
The ultimate full-stack solution for setting up, managing, and scaling clusters with ease, control, and performance. Qlustar empowers your HPC, AI, and storage environments with unmatched simplicity and robust capabilities. From bare-metal installation with the Qlustar installer to seamless cluster operations, Qlustar covers it all. Set up and manage your clusters with unmatched simplicity and efficiency. Designed to grow with your needs, handling even the most complex workloads effortlessly. Optimized for speed, reliability, and resource efficiency in demanding environments. Upgrade your OS or manage security patches without the need for reinstallations. Regular and reliable updates keep your clusters safe from vulnerabilities. Qlustar optimizes your computing power, delivering peak efficiency for high-performance computing environments. Our solution offers robust workload management, built-in high availability, and an intuitive interface for streamlined operations.Starting Price: Free -
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Warewulf
Warewulf
Warewulf is a cluster management and provisioning system that has pioneered stateless node management for over two decades. It enables the provisioning of containers directly onto bare metal hardware at massive scales, ranging from tens to tens of thousands of compute systems while maintaining simplicity and flexibility. The platform is extensible, allowing users to modify default functionalities and node images to suit various clustering use cases. Warewulf supports stateless provisioning with SELinux, per-node asset key-based provisioning, and access controls, ensuring secure deployments. Its minimal system requirements and ease of optimization, customization, and integration make it accessible to diverse industries. Supported by OpenHPC and contributors worldwide, Warewulf stands as a successful HPC cluster platform utilized across various sectors. Minimal system requirements, easy to get started, and simple to optimize, customize, and integrate.Starting Price: Free -
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TotalView
Perforce
TotalView debugging software provides the specialized tools you need to quickly debug, analyze, and scale high-performance computing (HPC) applications. This includes highly dynamic, parallel, and multicore applications that run on diverse hardware — from desktops to supercomputers. Improve HPC development efficiency, code quality, and time-to-market with TotalView’s powerful tools for faster fault isolation, improved memory optimization, and dynamic visualization. Simultaneously debug thousands of threads and processes. Purpose-built for multicore and parallel computing, TotalView delivers a set of tools providing unprecedented control over processes and thread execution, along with deep visibility into program states and data. -
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Ansys HPC
Ansys
With the Ansys HPC software suite, you can use today’s multicore computers to perform more simulations in less time. These simulations can be bigger, more complex and more accurate than ever using high-performance computing (HPC). The various Ansys HPC licensing options let you scale to whatever computational level of simulation you require, from single-user or small user group options for entry-level parallel processing up to virtually unlimited parallel capacity. For large user groups, Ansys facilitates highly scalable, multiple parallel processing simulations for the most challenging projects when needed. Apart from parallel computing, Ansys also offers solutions for parametric computing, which enables you to more fully explore the design parameters (size, weight, shape, materials, mechanical properties, etc.) of your product early in the development process. -
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Arm MAP
Arm
No need to change your code or the way you build it. Profiling for applications running on more than one server and multiple processes. Clear views of bottlenecks in I/O, in computing, in a thread, or in multi-process activity. Deep insight into actual processor instruction types that affect your performance. View memory usage over time to discover high watermarks and changes across the complete memory footprint. Arm MAP is a unique scalable low-overhead profiler, available standalone or as part of the Arm Forge debug and profile suite. It helps server and HPC code developers to accelerate their software by revealing the causes of slow performance. It is used from multicore Linux workstations through to supercomputers. You can profile realistic test cases that you care most about with typically under 5% runtime overhead. The interactive user interface is clear and intuitive, designed for developers and computational scientists. -
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Arm Forge
Arm
Build reliable and optimized code for the right results on multiple Server and HPC architectures, from the latest compilers and C++ standards to Intel, 64-bit Arm, AMD, OpenPOWER, and Nvidia GPU hardware. Arm Forge combines Arm DDT, the leading debugger for time-saving high-performance application debugging, Arm MAP, the trusted performance profiler for invaluable optimization advice across native and Python HPC codes, and Arm Performance Reports for advanced reporting capabilities. Arm DDT and Arm MAP are also available as standalone products. Efficient application development for Linux Server and HPC with Full technical support from Arm experts. Arm DDT is the debugger of choice for developing of C++, C, or Fortran parallel, and threaded applications on CPUs, and GPUs. Its powerful intuitive graphical interface helps you easily detect memory bugs and divergent behavior at all scales, making Arm DDT the number one debugger in research, industry, and academia. -
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Azure HPC
Microsoft
Azure high-performance computing (HPC). Power breakthrough innovations, solve complex problems, and optimize your compute-intensive workloads. Build and run your most demanding workloads in the cloud with a full stack solution purpose-built for HPC. Deliver supercomputing power, interoperability, and near-infinite scalability for compute-intensive workloads with Azure Virtual Machines. Empower decision-making and deliver next-generation AI with industry-leading Azure AI and analytics services. Help secure your data and applications and streamline compliance with multilayered, built-in security and confidential computing. -
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Amazon EC2 P4 Instances
Amazon
Amazon EC2 P4d instances deliver high performance for machine learning training and high-performance computing applications in the cloud. Powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, they offer industry-leading throughput and low-latency networking, supporting 400 Gbps instance networking. P4d instances provide up to 60% lower cost to train ML models, with an average of 2.5x better performance for deep learning models compared to previous-generation P3 and P3dn instances. Deployed in hyperscale clusters called Amazon EC2 UltraClusters, P4d instances combine high-performance computing, networking, and storage, enabling users to scale from a few to thousands of NVIDIA A100 GPUs based on project needs. Researchers, data scientists, and developers can utilize P4d instances to train ML models for use cases such as natural language processing, object detection and classification, and recommendation engines, as well as to run HPC applications like pharmaceutical discovery and more.Starting Price: $11.57 per hour -
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Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Amazon
Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. It offers data access speeds up to 10 times faster and requests costs up to 50% lower than S3 Standard. With S3 Express One Zone, you can select a specific AWS Availability Zone within an AWS Region to store your data, allowing you to co-locate your storage and compute resources in the same Availability Zone to further optimize performance, which helps lower compute costs and run workloads faster. Data is stored in a different bucket type, an S3 directory bucket, which supports hundreds of thousands of requests per second. Additionally, you can use S3 Express One Zone with services such as Amazon SageMaker Model Training, Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue Data Catalog to accelerate your machine learning and analytics workloads. -
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AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is a managed service that simplifies running and scaling high-performance computing workloads and building scientific and engineering models on AWS using Slurm. It enables the creation of complete, elastic environments that integrate computing, storage, networking, and visualization tools, allowing users to focus on research and innovation without the burden of infrastructure management. AWS PCS offers managed updates and built-in observability features, enhancing cluster operations and maintenance. Users can build and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure HPC clusters through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or AWS SDK. The service supports various use cases, including tightly coupled workloads like computer-aided engineering, high-throughput computing such as genomics analysis, accelerated computing with GPUs, and custom silicon like AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia.Starting Price: $0.5977 per hour
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PowerFLOW
Dassault Systèmes
By leveraging our unique, inherently transient Lattice Boltzmann-based physics PowerFLOW CFD solution performs simulations that accurately predict real world conditions. Using the PowerFLOW suite, engineers evaluate product performance early in the design process prior to any prototype being built — when the impact of change is most significant for design and budgets. PowerFLOW imports fully complex model geometry and accurately and efficiently performs aerodynamic, aeroacoustic and thermal management simulations. Automated domain discretization and turbulence modeling with wall treatment eliminates the need for manual volume meshing and boundary layer meshing. Confidently run PowerFLOW simulations using large number of compute cores on common High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms. -
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HPE Pointnext
Hewlett Packard
This confluence put new demands on HPC storage as the input/output patterns of both workloads could not be more different. And it is happening right now. A recent study of the independent analyst firm Intersect360 found out that 63% of the HPC users today already are running machine learning programs. Hyperion Research forecasts that, at current course and speed, HPC storage spending in public sector organizations and enterprises will grow 57% faster than spending for HPC compute for the next three years. Seymour Cray once said, "Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.” When it comes to HPC and AI, anyone can build fast file storage. The trick is to build a fast, but also cost-effective and scalable file storage system. We achieve this by embedding the leading parallel file systems into parallel storage products from HPE with cost effectiveness built in. -
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ScaleCloud
ScaleMatrix
Data-intensive AI, IoT and HPC workloads requiring multiple parallel processes have always run best on expensive high-end processors or accelerators, such as Graphic Processing Units (GPU). Moreover, when running compute-intensive workloads on cloud-based solutions, businesses and research organizations have had to accept tradeoffs, many of which were problematic. For example, the age of processors and other hardware in cloud environments is often incompatible with the latest applications or high energy expenditure levels that cause concerns related to environmental values. In other cases, certain aspects of cloud solutions have simply been frustrating to deal with. This has limited flexibility for customized cloud environments to support business needs or trouble finding right-size billing models or support. -
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Azure FXT Edge Filer
Microsoft
Create cloud-integrated hybrid storage that works with your existing network-attached storage (NAS) and Azure Blob Storage. This on-premises caching appliance optimizes access to data in your datacenter, in Azure, or across a wide-area network (WAN). A combination of software and hardware, Microsoft Azure FXT Edge Filer delivers high throughput and low latency for hybrid storage infrastructure supporting high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.Scale-out clustering provides non-disruptive NAS performance scaling. Join up to 24 FXT nodes per cluster to scale to millions of IOPS and hundreds of GB/s. When you need performance and scale in file-based workloads, Azure FXT Edge Filer keeps your data on the fastest path to processing resources. Managing data storage is easy with Azure FXT Edge Filer. Shift aging data to Azure Blob Storage to keep it easily accessible with minimal latency. Balance on-premises and cloud storage. -
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Kombyne
Kombyne
Kombyne™ is an innovative new SaaS high-performance computing (HPC) workflow tool, initially developed for customers in the defense, automotive, and aerospace industries and academic research. It allows users to subscribe to a range of workflow solutions for HPC CFD jobs, from on-the-fly extract generation and rendering to simulation steering. Interactive monitoring and control are also available, all with minimal simulation disruption and no reliance on VTK. The need for large files is eliminated via extract workflows and real-time visualization. An in-transit workflow uses a separate process that quickly receives data from the solver code and performs visualization and analysis without interfering with the running solver. This process, called an endpoint, can directly output extracts, cutting planes or point samples for data science and can render images as well. The Endpoint can also act as a bridge to popular visualization codes. -
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Arm Allinea Studio is a suite of tools for developing server and HPC applications on Arm-based platforms. It contains Arm-specific compilers and libraries, and debug and optimization tools. Arm Performance Libraries provide optimized standard core math libraries for high-performance computing applications on Arm processors. The library routines, which are available through both Fortran and C interfaces. Arm Performance Libraries are built with OpenMP across many BLAS, LAPACK, FFT, and sparse routines in order to maximize your performance in multi-processor environments.
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The Nimbix Supercomputing Suite is a set of flexible and secure as-a-service high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. This as-a-service model for HPC, AI, and Quantum in the cloud provides customers with access to one of the broadest HPC and supercomputing portfolios, from hardware to bare metal-as-a-service to the democratization of advanced computing in the cloud across public and private data centers. Nimbix Supercomputing Suite allows you access to HyperHub Application Marketplace, our high-performance marketplace with over 1,000 applications and workflows. Leverage powerful dedicated BullSequana HPC servers as bare metal-as-a-service for the best of infrastructure and on-demand scalability, convenience, and agility. Federated supercomputing-as-a-service offers a unified service console to manage all compute zones and regions in a public or private HPC, AI, and supercomputing federation.
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NVIDIA DGX Cloud
NVIDIA
NVIDIA DGX Cloud offers a fully managed, end-to-end AI platform that leverages the power of NVIDIA’s advanced hardware and cloud computing services. This platform allows businesses and organizations to scale AI workloads seamlessly, providing tools for machine learning, deep learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). DGX Cloud integrates seamlessly with leading cloud providers, delivering the performance and flexibility required to handle the most demanding AI applications. This service is ideal for businesses looking to enhance their AI capabilities without the need to manage physical infrastructure. -
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Kao Data
Kao Data
Kao Data leads the industry, pioneering the development and operation of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing. With a hyperscale-inspired and industrial scale platform, we provide our customers with a secure, scalable and sustainable home for their compute. Kao Data leads the industry in pioneering the development and operation of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing. With our Harlow campus the home for a variety of mission-critical HPC deployments - we are the UK’s number one choice for power-intensive, high density, GPU-powered computing. With rapid on-ramps into all major cloud providers, we can make your hybrid AI and HPC ambitions a reality. -
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Fuzzball
CIQ
Fuzzball accelerates innovation for researchers and scientists by eliminating the burdens of infrastructure provisioning and management. Fuzzball streamlines and optimizes high-performance computing (HPC) workload design and execution. A user-friendly GUI for designing, editing, and executing HPC jobs. Comprehensive control and automation of all HPC tasks via CLI. Automated data ingress and egress with full compliance logs. Native integration with GPUs and both on-prem and cloud storage on-prem and cloud storage. Human-readable, portable workflow files that execute anywhere. CIQ’s Fuzzball modernizes traditional HPC with an API-first, container-optimized architecture. Operating on Kubernetes, it provides all the security, performance, stability, and convenience found in modern software and infrastructure. Fuzzball not only abstracts the infrastructure layer but also automates the orchestration of complex workflows, driving greater efficiency and collaboration. -
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Amazon EC2 P5 Instances
Amazon
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, and P5e and P5en instances powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high-performance computing applications. They help you accelerate your time to solution by up to 4x compared to previous-generation GPU-based EC2 instances, and reduce the cost to train ML models by up to 40%. These instances help you iterate on your solutions at a faster pace and get to market more quickly. You can use P5, P5e, and P5en instances for training and deploying increasingly complex large language models and diffusion models powering the most demanding generative artificial intelligence applications. These applications include question-answering, code generation, video and image generation, and speech recognition. You can also use these instances to deploy demanding HPC applications at scale for pharmaceutical discovery. -
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Amazon EC2 UltraClusters
Amazon
Amazon EC2 UltraClusters enable you to scale to thousands of GPUs or purpose-built machine learning accelerators, such as AWS Trainium, providing on-demand access to supercomputing-class performance. They democratize supercomputing for ML, generative AI, and high-performance computing developers through a simple pay-as-you-go model without setup or maintenance costs. UltraClusters consist of thousands of accelerated EC2 instances co-located in a given AWS Availability Zone, interconnected using Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking in a petabit-scale nonblocking network. This architecture offers high-performance networking and access to Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed shared storage built on a high-performance parallel file system, enabling rapid processing of massive datasets with sub-millisecond latencies. EC2 UltraClusters provide scale-out capabilities for distributed ML training and tightly coupled HPC workloads, reducing training times. -
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AWS HPC
Amazon
AWS High Performance Computing (HPC) services empower users to execute large-scale simulations and deep learning workloads in the cloud, providing virtually unlimited compute capacity, high-performance file systems, and high-throughput networking. This suite of services accelerates innovation by offering a broad range of cloud-based tools, including machine learning and analytics, enabling rapid design and testing of new products. Operational efficiency is maximized through on-demand access to compute resources, allowing users to focus on complex problem-solving without the constraints of traditional infrastructure. AWS HPC solutions include Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for low-latency, high-bandwidth networking, AWS Batch for scaling computing jobs, AWS ParallelCluster for simplified cluster deployment, and Amazon FSx for high-performance file systems. These services collectively provide a flexible and scalable environment tailored to diverse HPC workloads. -
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AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)
United States
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale on AWS. Its custom-built operating system (OS) bypass hardware interface enhances the performance of inter-instance communications, which is critical to scaling these applications. With EFA, High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications using NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) can scale to thousands of CPUs or GPUs. As a result, you get the application performance of on-premises HPC clusters with the on-demand elasticity and flexibility of the AWS cloud. EFA is available as an optional EC2 networking feature that you can enable on any supported EC2 instance at no additional cost. Plus, it works with the most commonly used interfaces, APIs, and libraries for inter-node communications.
