AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Question
A manufacturing company is migrating an MPI-based high-performance computing (HPC) simulation that will run on 128 c7n.16xlarge Amazon EC2 instances. The application needs sub-millisecond internode latency and at least 25 Gbps of sustained throughput between all nodes. The team is willing to place every instance in the same Availability Zone and wants the simplest way to achieve the required network performance. Which deployment strategy should the solutions architect recommend?
Use a rack-level spread placement group across three Availability Zones to keep nodes on separate racks.
Launch the instances without a placement group and attach Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) to each node.
Launch all 128 c7n.16xlarge instances into a cluster placement group in a single Availability Zone.
Launch the instances into a partition placement group that spans two Availability Zones with four partitions.
A cluster placement group packs EC2 instances close together inside a single Availability Zone on the same high-bisection-bandwidth segment of the AWS network. This placement maximizes per-flow throughput (up to 10 Gbps per TCP flow with enhanced networking) and minimizes internode latency, making it the recommended pattern for tightly coupled HPC or MPI workloads.
A partition placement group distributes instances across partitions and can span multiple AZs, which helps with fault isolation but does not optimize network proximity; traffic between partitions can traverse different racks or even AZs, increasing latency. A rack-level spread placement group intentionally separates instances onto distinct racks and is limited to seven instances per Availability Zone, so it cannot support 128 nodes in a single group. Launching instances without a placement group-even with EFA-offers no placement guarantees; network performance may vary because the nodes could end up on different racks. Therefore, placing all 128 instances in a cluster placement group within one AZ is the most suitable and straightforward choice.
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