AWS ParallelCluster 3.7 is now generally available. Key features in this release are support for Ubuntu 22 and support for login nodes, which enable customers to decouple user access from cluster’s head-node and de-risks the depletion of head-node resources because of excessive user-activity. Other important features in this release include:
Amazon S3 now supports multivalue answer in response to DNS queries
Amazon S3 now supports multivalue answer (MVA) in response to DNS queries for S3 endpoints. With MVA, you can now get up to eight S3 IP addresses per DNS query. You can use these IP addresses to automatically make multiple concurrent connections to S3 which can improve throughput. MVA also makes retries more efficient as applications will automatically try an alternative IP address without having to wait for another DNS query.
AWS HealthOmics now provides workflow run archiving and retention
Today, AWS HealthOmics announces a new capability to easily archive and retain workflow runs to support your data provenance requirements. In regulated environments, the need to keep long term records of which algorithms you ran on specific input data to produce specific output data is a key component for compliance. The new AWS HealthOmics capability enables you to track your workflow history in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, and use CloudWatch Insights to query this history. You can also export this data to S3 from CloudWatch for even longer term storage to meet your compliance requirements.
Amazon Chime SDK now supports meetings in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio and video to their web and mobile applications with one-to-one and group meetings. Amazon Chime SDK meetings are now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this launch, AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) becomes a meetings control region, providing developers with API endpoints to create and manage meetings as well as a media region, providing the ability to connect clients to audio and video hosted in the region.
AWS DataSync now provides detailed data transfer task reports
AWS DataSync introduces task reports, a new feature that provides detailed reports of data transfer operations for each task execution. Using task reports, you can track and audit your data transfers, monitor the chain of custody of your files, and troubleshoot transfer errors.
Nvidia astonishes
Nvidia’s Q2 results surprised to the upside with revenue doubling y-o-y to $13.5 billion for a profit which was more than the whole of last year’s profit at $6.2 billion, …
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Gadget Book: Arduino for Arduinians
Here’s another tome worthy of the Gadget Master library: Arduino for Arduinians, written by John Boxall and due out next month.
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Top Ten Emerging Technologies
Thanks to the WEF for this one – the ten most important emerging technologies: Flexible batteries Generative artificial intelligence Sustainable aviation fuel Designer phages Metaverse for mental healthm Wearable plant …
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Energy harvester dc-dc can run from two ambient sources
E-peas has created a power IC that can mediate between two energy harvesters, a 5V charger, a power store and a load. AEM13920 can work from any combination of two …
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Google scrolls and folds Flutter to version 3.13
Google has updated Flutter – its mobile UI toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – to version 3.13. The latest release sees …
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