Important

New Docs are available at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster

All new features, starting with 2.4.0, will be documented there.

How AWS ParallelCluster Works

AWS ParallelCluster was built not only as a way to manage clusters, but as a reference on how to use AWS services to build your HPC environment

• AWS ParallelCluster Processes
  • General Overview
  • jobwatcher
  • sqswatcher
  • nodewatcher
• AWS Services used in AWS ParallelCluster
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
  • Amazon Simple Queuing Service (SQS)
  • Amazon EC2
  • AWS Auto Scaling
  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • AWS Batch
  • AWS CodeBuild
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
  • Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS ParallelCluster Auto Scaling
  • Scaling Up
  • Scaling Down
  • Static Cluster