Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)

EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances designed to accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC) and machine learning applications.

Key points about AWS EFA:

Performance: It provides lower latency and higher throughput compared to traditional TCP transport.
OS-bypass: EFA enables direct communication between applications and the network adapter, bypassing the operating system kernel.
Compatibility: It works with popular HPC and machine learning frameworks and libraries.
Scalability: EFA is designed to scale to thousands of CPUs or GPUs.
Use cases: It's particularly useful for tightly-coupled applications like computational fluid dynamics, weather modeling, and molecular dynamics simulations.

Last updated 6 months ago

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EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances designed to accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC) and machine learning applications.

Key points about AWS EFA:

Performance: It provides lower latency and higher throughput compared to traditional TCP transport.
OS-bypass: EFA enables direct communication between applications and the network adapter, bypassing the operating system kernel.
Compatibility: It works with popular HPC and machine learning frameworks and libraries.
Scalability: EFA is designed to scale to thousands of CPUs or GPUs.
Use cases: It's particularly useful for tightly-coupled applications like computational fluid dynamics, weather modeling, and molecular dynamics simulations.

Last updated 6 months ago

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