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Google Cloud: Cloud-Native HPC Innovations for SC25

🚀 Google Cloud previewed its HPC and AI innovations for SC25, emphasizing a shift to cloud-native HPC that lets researchers and engineers provision purpose-built clusters in minutes. Key highlights include H4D and A4X VMs with low-latency Cloud RDMA, plus the Dynamic Workload Scheduler with Flex Start to enable flexible, cost-effective access to high-demand compute. The Cluster Toolkit and Google Managed Lustre simplify cluster deployment and high-throughput storage, while the latest TPUs and AI tools accelerate scientific workflows. Attendees are invited to booth #3724 for demos, talks, and community events.

Google Cloud Announces Flex-start VMs for GPU Access

🚀 Google Cloud has launched Flex-start VMs, a Compute Engine consumption option powered by Dynamic Workload Scheduler that lets single VM instances wait in a managed queue for scarce GPUs. By setting request-valid-for-duration (90 seconds–2 hours) users keep capacity requests in PENDING and avoid custom retry logic. Flex-start VMs offer significant discounts versus on‑demand SKUs, consume preemptible quota, run uninterrupted for up to seven days, and integrate directly via the instances.insert API, gcloud CLI, or the Cloud Console. Instances support stop/start to pause billing and an instanceTerminationAction = STOP to preserve configuration when the seven‑day runtime expires.