Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing department is vigorously developing and developing custom CPU solutions based on ARM architecture to better meet the diverse challenges raised by enterprise customers. At its re:Invent conference today, Amazon has developed a new custom CPU for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, called the Graviton3E.
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Given that HPC workloads require higher bandwidth, wider data paths, and data types spanning multiple dimensions, AWS redesigned the Graviton3 processor and enhanced its vector processing capabilities under the new name Graviton3E. This CPU promises up to a 35% performance boost in workloads that rely on heavy vector processing.
In the AWS EC2 instance type, the chip can provide up to 64 vCPU cores and 128 GiB of memory. AWS says the enhanced chip will be available in C7gn and Hpc7g instances. These instances offer 200Gbps of dedicated network bandwidth, optimized for traffic between instances in the same VPC.
