We recently launched two new Amazon EC2 instance families based on Intel’s Ice Lake – the C6i and M6i. These instances provide higher core counts and take advantage of generational performance improvements on Intel’s Xeon scalable processor …
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Today we’re announcing the release of AWS ParallelCluster 3.1 which now supports multiuser authentication based on Active Directory (AD). Starting with v3.1.1 clusters can be configured to use an AD domain managed via one of the AWS …
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It’s often difficult to keep track of all the announcements AWS is making around HPC. Come and join us on Feb. 9th for a quick overview of the latest and greatest AWS HPC products and services launched over the past year. You will hear …
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Slurm’s job management API, coupled with ParallelCluster’s own API for managing cluster infrastructure opens up a lot of doors to create new ways for your users to interact with HPC resources - in this case without having to …
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In a previous show (https://youtu.be/6gAwAK5IJ2w), we talked about ‘Infrastructure as Code’, or how the ParallelCluster 3 YAML config translated to an actual cluster running, ready to take jobs. Today, Austin Cherian joins us …
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ParallelCluster 3 was a major release with several changes and a lot of new features. To help get you started migrating your clusters, we describe the config file converter tool which is part of the ParallelCluster (>= v3.0.1) command …
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Processing large amounts of complex data often requires leveraging a mix of different Amazon EC2 instance types. These types of computations also benefit from shared, high performance, scalable storage like Amazon FSx for Lustre. A way to …
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