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About Amazon EC2 UltraClusters
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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Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML enable you to reserve accelerated compute instances in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters for your machine learning workloads. This service supports Amazon EC2 P5en, P5e, P5, and P4d instances, powered by NVIDIA H200, H100, and A100 Tensor Core GPUs, respectively, as well as Trn2 and Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium. You can reserve these instances for up to six months in cluster sizes ranging from one to 64 instances (512 GPUs or 1,024 Trainium chips), providing flexibility for various ML workloads. Reservations can be made up to eight weeks in advance. By colocating in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters, Capacity Blocks offer low-latency, high-throughput network connectivity, facilitating efficient distributed training. This setup ensures predictable access to high-performance computing resources, allowing you to plan ML development confidently, run experiments, build prototypes, and accommodate future surges in demand for ML applications.
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Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 delivers the broadest choice of compute, networking (up to 400 Gbps), and storage services purpose-built to optimize price performance for ML projects. Build, test, and sign on-demand macOS workloads. Access environments in minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing. Access the on-demand infrastructure and capacity you need to run HPC applications faster and cost-effectively. Amazon EC2 delivers secure, reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective compute infrastructure to meet demanding business needs.
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Amazon EC2 P4 Instances
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.
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AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)
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.
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