AMD has announced that it has been recognised by Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the AWS High Performance Computing Competency status. This accreditation acknowledges that AMD has demonstrated its technical proficiency and ability to deliver successful customer outcomes in the high-performance computing (HPC) field, thereby assisting customers in achieving their cloud HPC objectives.
The attainment of the AWS High Performance Computing Competency sets AMD apart as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that offers specialised services to help organisations adopt, develop, and deploy complicated projects on AWS. To qualify for this recognition, APN members must possess in-depth AWS expertise and provide solutions that integrate seamlessly with AWS.
Lynn Comp, Corporate Vice President, Cloud Business at AMD, expressed her pride in achieving AWS High Performance Computing Competency status and supporting customers with AMD’s exceptional technology powering AWS infrastructure. She highlighted that customers are increasingly turning to the cloud to run more simultaneous jobs while reducing lengthy job queues, and this achievement demonstrates AMD’s dedication to offering superior performance and cost efficiency in HPC.
This accomplishment is the outcome of an extensive collaboration between AMD and AWS on cloud and HPC virtual machines (VMs), including a previous announcement that Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances are fueled by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors and can deliver up to 65% better price-performance than equivalent compute-optimized x86-based instances. These instances help customers execute their most compute-intensive HPC workloads such as weather forecasting, computational fluid dynamics, and molecular dynamics.
