Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)
Jon Bonso2023-06-23T05:53:26+00:00Bookmarks Limitations Pricing Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Cheat Sheet An Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network device that you can attach to your Amazon EC2 instance to accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC) and machine learning applications. An EFA is an Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) with an additional OS-bypass functionality. How It Works EFA integrates with Libfabric 1.9.0 and it supports Open MPI 4.0.2 and Intel MPI 2019 Update 6 for HPC applications, and Nvidia Collective Communications Library (NCCL) for machine learning applications. With an EFA, HPC applications use Intel Message Passing Interface (MPI) or [...]