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Alces Flight is one of several (free) third-party services that help you to create an HPC cluster on AWS. This is recommended by Kevin as relatively user-friendly. See here for specific information on using Alces flight with AWS
Action Items from Thursday 7/12/2018
1) Intel folks suggest be cautious of fabric issues at AWS. AWS may still be using ethernet which is not as capable as IB, etc. on production machines such as theia, discover, wcoss, etc. If FV3 is going to be run at production resolution (C768?) this would be a good opportunity to compare computational performance of AWS vs. e.g. theia.
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