Alibaba Cloud E-HPC
Elastic High Performance Computing: managed Slurm clusters on ECS with eRDMA-enabled GPU and bare-metal instance families, billed per core-hour.
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Facts
Source per value- Type What kind of provider it is: hyperscaler, managed HPC service, GPU cloud, sovereign or EU-hosted cloud, publicly funded supercomputer, or simulation-software cloud.
- hyperscaler 1
- Fabric Primary node-to-node network the provider states for its HPC or GPU clusters. RDMA means the provider names RDMA cluster networking without naming the transport.
- RDMA 1
- Interconnect detail Speeds and instance families as the provider states them.
- Elastic RDMA Interface (eRDMA) on gn8is, gn8v, gn9g and ebmgn8* families 1
- Schedulers Job schedulers and orchestrators the provider offers or documents.
- E-HPC NEXT (Slurm cluster type) 2
- Slurm Offers or documents Slurm (managed, or as a supported deployment).
- Yes 2
- Kubernetes Offers managed Kubernetes for its clusters.
- Not published
- CPUs CPU models the provider names for its HPC or GPU hosts.
- Not published
- GPUs / accelerators Accelerators the provider lists, as listed on its own pages.
- NVIDIA L20, A10, V100; Blackwell-based families (model not named on the page) 3
- H100 Lists NVIDIA H100.
- Not published
- Blackwell Lists at least one NVIDIA Blackwell data-centre GPU (B200, B300, GB200, GB300).
- Not published
- AMD Instinct Lists at least one AMD Instinct GPU.
- Not published
- Bare metal Sells non-virtualised bare-metal nodes.
- Yes 3
- H100 $/GPU-hr $/GPU-hr Published per-GPU-hour price of an H100. Basis (on-demand, capacity block, derived from an 8-GPU price) is in the next column.
- Not published
- H100 price basis What the H100 price is: purchase mode, instance size and any derivation.
- Not published
- Price checked Date the price was read from the provider page.
- Not published
- Pricing model How the provider charges, as it states it.
- E-HPC service fee $0.003 per core-hour above 200 vCPUs per region; ECS, storage and traffic billed separately 4
- Regions Locations the provider names on its own pages.
- Not published
- EU-hosted Names data-centre capacity in an EU member state.
- Not published
- Sovereignty claim The provider's own sovereignty or compliance statement, quoted or closely paraphrased.
- Not published
- Software catalogue Pre-configured application catalogue a platform provider advertises.
- Not published
- Runs on Clouds and hardware partners a platform provider lists.
- Not published
- Pricing model
- Per core-hour service fee
- From
- $0.003 core-hour (E-HPC service fee, ECS extra)
Sources
- eRDMA GPU instance configuration accessed 2026-11-11
- Deploy E-HPC NEXT with eRDMA accessed 2026-11-11
- GPU instance families accessed 2026-11-11
- E-HPC pricing accessed 2026-11-11
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