AWS ParallelCluster 3.11 now available with login node enhancements
AWS ParallelCluster 3.11 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for NICE DCV and custom action scripts on Login nodes. Use custom action scripts to automate the setup and configuration of Login Nodes to meet your specific organization's needs such as installing additional software, configuring settings, or custom commands. Add custom action scripts by uploading them to an S3 bucket and specifying their paths in the ParallelCluster YAML configuration file. Other important features in this release include:
- Support for pyxis and enroot for simplified container image management and the efficient execution of container-based HPC and ML/AI workloads using Slurm.
- Support for multiple login node pools where the login nodes of each pool can be configured with a specific Amazon EC2 instance type to best fit their specific use case.
For more details on the release, review the AWS ParallelCluster 3.11.0 release notes.
AWS ParallelCluster is a fully-supported and maintained open-source cluster management tool that enables R&D customers and their IT administrators to operate high-performance computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. AWS ParallelCluster is designed to automatically and securely provision cloud resources into elastically-scaling HPC clusters capable of running scientific, engineering, and machine-learning (ML/AI) workloads at scale on AWS.
AWS ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge in the AWS Regions listed here, and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications. To learn more about launching HPC clusters on AWS, visit the AWS ParallelCluster User Guide. To start using ParallelCluster, see the installation instructions for ParallelCluster UI and CLI.