AWS EC2 F1 instance is no longer supporrted for new users

[Frank Fan]

Hi! I recently tried to set up FireSim on AWS EC2 following the official FireSim documentation. However, I encountered some issues:

1. The FPGA Developer AMI mentioned in the documentation (version 1.12.2-40257ab5-6688-4c95-97d1-e251a40fd1fc) is no longer available for search.

2. After failing to set up the environment, I reached out to AWS Support and was informed that F1 instances are no longer available to new users. They are only supported for users who have previously accessed them, and AWS plans to gradually replace them entirely with F2 instances.

Given this situation, I would like to ask:

• Does FireSim provide support for F2 instances?

• If so, what steps should users take to set up FireSim on F2 instances?

Any guidance or updates on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[Matthew Fields]

Hi, I last heard that FireSim was not yet ready for F2 instances. I am not sure if that has changed in the last two weeks.

 

If you need access to F1-style FPGAs, we can offer bare metal access to Xilinx U250 FPGAs at F1 prices or U55C at 20% less than F2 prices.

 

Please let me know if we can help.

 

 

 

Matt

 

 

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[Amit H]

This sounds interesting for me. Where will I be able to I find more information?

Please post further details.

- Amit

[Matthew Fields]

Hi, we are offering this service under a company called PST.

 

PST delivers bare metal access for AI, HPC, Inferencing, and private workloads, including FPGAs.

Our site is forthcoming over the next few weeks.

We previously built the AMD FPGA Cloud for them.

 

Our F1 comparative offering is:

1. 12-cores (E5-2620 x2), 192GB, 960GB SSD, 1x Xilinx U250 FPGA.
1. Available for  $1,008.92 per month compared to $1204.50 for f1.2xlarge.
2. 24-cores (E5-2678 x2), 384GB, 2x 960G SSD, 2x Xilinx U250 FPGA.
1. Available for $2,017.84 per month compared to $2409 for f1.4xlarge.
3. We can also enable instances with up to 8x U250 cards with scaled memory and cores.

 

If you are interested, email me what you are looking for, and we can work to enable you.

 

 

Matt

ma...@pst.co

 

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