Re: AWS Enhanced Networking

From: Sergio Mafra <no email>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:59:42 -0200

Hi Rayson,

Is there any AMI with the Intel ixgbevf Virtual Function drive ready for
StarCluster?
I think that this should be part of StarClusterīs public AMIs.

All best,

Sergio


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> The Enhanced Networking feature provides much better latency for all
> instance types that support it. For the c3.8xlarge instance type,
> Enhanced Networking allows the instance to utilize over 95% of the
> 10Gbit Ethernet bandwidth:
>
>
> http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/2013/12/enhanced-networking-in-aws-cloud.html
>
> http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/2014/01/enhanced-networking-in-aws-cloud-part-2.html
>
> Rayson
>
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>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Sergio, I check the docs the day when c3 was announced, there's
> > no mention of placement group support for c3. I think I was reading
> > the older version of the doc.
> >
> > Yuichi, we can't take advantage of SR-IOV (yet) as we don't run in a VPC.
> >
> > Rayson
> >
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> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Yoshiara, Yuichi <yoshiara_at_amazon.co.jp>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Sergio,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> There is a new feature called Enhanced Networking which is available in
> C3 instances.
> >>
> >> Please read through the link below and see if it helps you.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#What_networking_capabilities_are_included_in_this_feature
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Yuichi Yoshiara
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: starcluster-bounces_at_mit.edu [mailto:starcluster-bounces_at_mit.edu]
> On Behalf Of Sergio Mafra
> >> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 8:16 PM
> >> To: Rayson Ho; starcluster_at_mit.edu
> >> Subject: Re: [StarCluster] MIT StarCluster and the new C3 instances
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Rayson,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I noticed that StarCluster didnīt allocate a placement group for C3
> instances and did it by myself in the code.
> >>
> >> But this was not helpfull since C3 instances uses high throughput
> insted of the 10 giga network.
> >>
> >> In my tests, using C3 or CC2 in a cluster config where MPI is required
> will be equal to same processing time.
> >>
> >> Hope that AWS put them on 10 Giga net in the near future.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Compute optimized
> >>
> >> c3.8xlarge
> >>
> >> 64-bit
> >>
> >> Intel Xeon E5-2680
> >>
> >> 32
> >>
> >> 108
> >>
> >> 60.00
> >>
> >> 640 GB (2 x 320 SSD)
> >>
> >> -
> >>
> >> 240
> >>
> >> High
> >>
> >> Compute optimized
> >>
> >> cc2.8xlarge
> >>
> >> 64-bit
> >>
> >> Intel Xeon E5-2670
> >>
> >> 32
> >>
> >> 88
> >>
> >> 60.50
> >>
> >> 3370 GB (4 x 840)
> >>
> >> -
> >>
> >> 240
> >>
> >> 10 Gigabit
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Rayson,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Iīll try to do that.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> All best,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sergio
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's in the development branch:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/pull/325
> >>
> >> It's a few lines of code, and you can merge the changes into your
> >> local version very easily.
> >>
> >> Rayson
> >>
> >> ==================================================
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> >> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/
> >> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/GridEngine/GridEngineCloud.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Hi everyone,
> >> >
> >> > I attended AWS Re:Invent this year and liked a lot. Right place to go.
> >> > AWS announced there the new C3 family of HPC instances.
> >> > Iīm anxious to test them in my models but I understand that
> StarCluster must
> >> > take aware of them in the code.
> >> > So when will be the C3s available?
> >> >
> >> > All the best,
> >> >
> >> > Sergio Mafra
> >> >
> >>
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