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Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network interface for EC2 instances that enables low-latency, high-throughput communication for HPC and ML workloads.
Last Modified: August 29, 2025
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Key Features
- Network interface for high-performance computing workloads.
- Enables low-latency, high-bandwidth communication.
- Integrates with MPI-based applications.
- Optimized for tightly coupled HPC clusters.
Common Use Cases
- Enabling high-speed networking for HPC workloads
- Running MPI-based scientific simulations
- Improving performance for tightly coupled workloads
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