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Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage

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Amazon FSx for Lustre has enhanced its file storage service by introducing support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS), significantly improving performance for GPU and high-performance computing workloads.

  • Delivers up to 12x higher throughput per client instance (1200 Gbps)
  • EFA improves network throughput by using AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram protocol
  • GPUDirect Storage enables direct data transfer between file system and GPU memory
  • Eliminates memory copies and reduces CPU involvement in data transfers
  • Supports P5 GPU instances and NVIDIA CUDA applications
  • Available at no additional cost in commercial AWS Regions

These improvements enable faster machine learning training jobs and more efficient high-performance computing workloads in the cloud.

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