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Elastic High Performance Computing:What is E-HPC INSTANT computing service

Last Updated:Aug 14, 2025

E-HPC INSTANT is a serverless and intelligent batch processing service, built on the massive computing resources. It is designed for high-throughput, loosely coupled workloads, such as those in digital media, life sciences, and data processing. E-HPC INSTANT runs thousands of computing jobs concurrently while optimizing performance and cost.

Why choose E-HPC Instant

Benefits

  • Massive concurrency

    Supports concurrency of up to millions of vCores, automatically handles data distribution and computing scheduling.

  • Elastic and pay-as-you-go

    Provides a fully managed (serverless) computing environment. Resources are scheduled based on job. Charge based on usage.

  • Cost-effective

    Delivers unified and abstracted computing power for offline jobs.

Differences between E-HPC INSTANT and E-HPC NEXT

Item

E-HPC INSTANT computing service

E-HPC NEXT cluster

Cluster management

Serverless. No need to create or manage clusters.

Require creating and managing HPC clusters on demand.

Job scheduling

Cloud-native and intelligent batch processing scheduling.

Provides common HPC schedulers, such as SLURM and PBS.

Computing resources

Specifies unified computing power for CPU, memory (MEM), and disk.

Specifies ECS instances

Service Monitoring

Built-in observability metrics

Billing model

Fees for unified job computing power resources (CPU, MEM, and DISK) and NAS, OSS, and EIPs.

Fees for resources used by the cluster, such as ECS, NAS, and EIPs.

Service architecture

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Scenarios

E-HPC INSTANT is suitable for parallel applications that require high concurrency and elasticity.

Rendering

Suitable for common film and television rendering and architectural visualization. Supports the Windows operating system, meets the requirements for ultra-large-scale deployments and high elasticity.

Life sciences

Suitable for computationally intensive tasks in the life sciences industry, such as gene data analysis and molecular dynamics simulation. Supports container runtimes and integrates with common workflow engines.

Financial analysis

Suitable for large-scale financial risk analysis and quantitative backtesting tasks. Supports compute-side caching to optimize I/O access.

Data processing

Suitable for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) operations such as data extraction. Supports interoperating with other cloud products, such as OSS, NAS, and RDS, and supports public network access.

Billing

E-HPC INSTANT is a pay-as-you-go service. Fees are calculated based on the resources consumed by your jobs and their runtime. For more information, see Billing overview.