Posted On: Dec 22, 2022
AWS ParallelCluster 3.4 is now generally available and introduces the ability to create HPC clusters that can access and aggregate compute capacity across multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) in a Region. Other important features in this release include:
- Amazon VPC configuration for AWS Lambda functions used by ParallelCluster for managing your clusters.
- Custom AWS IAM prefixes for ParallelCluster IAM roles and policies to enable permission boundaries.
- Secure file-system mounting for Amazon EFS to enable in-transit encryption and IAM authorizations.
- Ability to set up custom actions for cluster updates.
For more details on the release, review the AWS ParallelCluster 3.4 release notes.
AWS ParallelCluster is available in most AWS regions at no additional cost. You pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications. AWS ParallelCluster is an open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for you to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. Learn how to launch an HPC cluster using AWS ParallelCluster here.