Selecting the right compute for HPC workloads
Now that you have learned about the foundations of compute and network on AWS, we are ready to explore some typical architectural patterns for compute on AWS.
Selecting the right compute for HPC and ML applications involves considering the rest of the architecture you are designing, and therefore involves all aspects of the Well-Architected Framework:
- Operational excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance efficiency
- Cost optimization
We cover best practices across these pillars at the end of this section, but first, we will start with the most basic pattern of computing on AWS and add complexity as we progress.
Pattern 1 – a standalone instance
Many HPC applications that are built for simulations, financial services, CFD, or genomics can run on a single EC2 instance as long as the right instance type is selected. We discussed many of these instance-type options in the Introducing AWS compute...
