07-03 High Performance Computing HPC
# The Nitro System
The Nitro System A combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor enabling faster innovation and enhanced security. All new EC2 instance types use the Nitro System.
- Nitro Cards - specialized cards for VPC, EBS and Instance torage and controller card
- Nitro Security Chips - Integrated into motherboard. Protects hardware resources.
- Nitro Hypervisor - lightweight hypervisor Memory and CPU allocation Bare Metal-like performance
# Bare Metal Instance
Bare Metal Instance You can launch EC2 instances that have no hypervisor so you can run workloads directly on the hardware for maximum performance and control. The M5 and R5 EC2 instances run bare metal.
Bottlerocket is a Linux-based open-source operation system that is purpose-built by AWS for running containers on Virtual machines or bare metal hosts. #aws-service
# High Performance Computing (HPC)
High Performance Computing (HPC) is a cluster of hundreds of thousands of servers with fast connections between each of them with the purpose of boosting computing capacity.
When you need a supercomputer to perform computational problems too large to run on a standard computers or would take too long.
AWS ParallelCluster is an AWS-supported source cluster management tool that makes it easy for you to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. #aws-service