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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. Given the specialized nature of these platforms, they require dedicated resources to maintain and operate and put a big burden on the IT organization.

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Leading innovation in digital infrastructure for a digital and sustainable APAC

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Digital infrastructure, of course, includes communications network infrastructure — including 5G, Fifth-Generation Fixed Network (F5G), Internet Protocol version 6+ (IPv6+), the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Industrial Internet — alongside computing infrastructure, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), storage, computing, and data centers.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

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This lead to the birth of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which was focused on providing a very fine grained parallel model, with processing organized in multiple stages, where the data would flow through. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.