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HPC optimized Amazon EC2 instance types

Speed up complex workloads using high-performance processors

What are HPC optimized EC2 instance types?

High-performance computing (HPC) instances offer the best price performance for running HPC workloads at scale. HPC instances are ideal for applications that benefit from high-performance processors such as complex simulations, deep learning, and visual effects rendering.

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Instance categories

Choose from a range of EC2 instance types, each offering unique combinations of compute, memory, and storage to power your specific workload needs.

General purpose instances provide a balance of compute, memory and networking resources, and can be used for many workloads. These instances are good for applications such as web servers, code repositories, and small-to-medium databases.

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Compute optimized instances are ideal for compute bound applications that benefit from high-performance processors. Some examples of workloads for compute instances are batch processing, media transcoding, and dedicated game servers.

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Memory optimized instances are designed to deliver fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory. For example, these instances are good for in- memory databases, data analytics, and enterprise applications.

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Accelerated computing instances use hardware accelerators, or co-processors, to perform functions more efficiently. For example, they can perform floating point number calculations, graphics processing, or data pattern matching.

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Storage optimized instances deliver millions of low-latency, random I/O operations per second to applications. They’re designed for workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to very large data sets on local storage. For example, they’re good for high-throughput databases, data processing, and data streaming.

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Hpc7g

Instance Size
Physical Cores
Memory (GiB)
Instance Storage
EFA Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
Network Bandwidth (Gbps*)
hpc7g.4xlarge
16
128
EBS-Only
200
25
hpc7g.8xlarge
32
128
EBS-Only
200
25
hpc7g.16xlarge
64
128
EBS-Only
200
25

Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances are designed for compute-intensive high performance computing (HPC) workloads, such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), weather forecasting, and molecular dynamics.

Features:

  • Up to 64 cores of Graviton3E processors with 128 GiB of memory
  • Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is enabled for internode network bandwidth speeds of up to 200 Gbps, delivering increased performance for network-intensive applications
  • Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

*500 Mbps network bandwidth outside of the virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Hpc7a

Instance Size
Physical Cores
Memory (GiB)
Instance Storage
EFA Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
Network Bandwidth (Gbps)*
hpc7a.12xlarge

24

768
EBS-Only

300

25
hpc7a.24xlarge

48

768
EBS-Only

300

25
hpc7a.48xlarge

96

768
EBS-Only

300

25
hpc7a.96xlarge

192

768
EBS-Only

300

25

Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances feature 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors and are designed for tightly coupled, compute-intensive high performance computing (HPC) workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), weather forecasting, and multiphysics simulations.

Features:

  • Up to 192 cores of 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors with 768 GiB of memory (AMD EPYC 9R14)
  • Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is enabled for internode network bandwidth speeds of up to 300 Gbps, delivering increased performance for network-intensive applications
  • Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

*500 Mbps network bandwidth outside the virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Hpc6id

Instance Size
Cores
Memory (GiB)
SSD Storage (GiB)
Network Bandwidth (Gbps)*
EFA Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
hpc6id.32xlarge
64
1024
4 x 3800 (NVMe SSD)
25
200

Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances are designed for memory-bound and data-intensive high performance computing (HPC) workloads such as finite element analysis (FEA) for crash simulations, seismic reservoir simulations, and structural simulations.

Features: 

  • Up to 3.5 GHz all-core turbo frequency, 64 cores of Intel Xeon Scalable processors with 5 GB/s per vCPU of memory bandwidth and 1024 GiB of memory
  • Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is enabled for inter-node network bandwidth speeds of up to 200 Gbps, delivering increased performance for network-intensive applications
  • Simultaneous multi-threading is disabled to optimize performance and cluster management
  • Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

*500 Mbps network bandwidth outside of the virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Hpc6a

Instance Size
Cores
Memory (GiB)
Network  Bandwidth (Gbps)*
EFA Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
hpc6a.48xlarge
96
384
25
100

Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances are optimized for tightly coupled, compute-intensive, high performance computing (HPC) workloads to deliver cost-efficient performance. Hpc6a instances are designed for workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, and weather forecasting. They are also designed for workloads that can take advantage of improved network throughput and packet-rate performance.

Features: 

  • Up to 3.6 GHz third-generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7R13)
  • Elastic Fabric Adapter  (EFA) is enabled for inter-node network bandwidth speeds of up to 100 Gbps, delivering increased performance for network-intensive applications
  • Simultaneous multithreading is disabled to optimize performance and cluster management
  • Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

*25 Gbps networking bandwidth outside of the virtual private cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), or Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).