HPC6ID High-Performance Computing

Optimized for tightly-coupled, large-scale HPC workloads.

Name:hpcHigh Performance Computinghpc = High Performance ComputingDesigned to run tightly coupled HPC workloads and distributed simulations with high-speed 100/200/400 Gbps network fabrics.66th Generation6 = 6th GenerationAWS 6th generation HPC architecture.iIntel Xeon Scalablei = Intel Xeon ScalableIntel Xeon Scalable (Icelake) (x86_64). Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable x86_64 processors with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512 / AMX) acceleration.dDirect-Attached NVMe SSDd = Direct-Attached NVMe SSDEquipped with physical high-speed NVMe SSD instance store volumes attached locally to the host server for temporary scratch and caching.

Common use cases

  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Weather modeling
  • Genomics

Instance types (1)

With a 3-year Compute Savings Plan (No Upfront), hpc6id sizes on Linux in EU (Stockholm) (eu-north-1) cost 40% less than the on-demand rate. Each size's page has the rates in every region. How Savings Plans are applied.

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
hpc6id.32xlarge641,024 GBx86_64$5.7000