AWS HPC Blog
Author: Oliver Perks
Oliver is a Senior Developer Advocate for HPC at AWS. Prior to AWS, Olly has a decade of experience within the HPC community, and was most recently an HPC applications engineer at Arm, enabling customers across the globe to build applications for Arm-based architectures.
Expanded filesystems support in AWS ParallelCluster 3.2
AWS ParallelCluster version 3.2 introduces support for two new Amazon FSx filesystem types (NetApp ONTAP and OpenZFS). It also lifts the limit on the number of filesystem mounts you can have on your cluster. We’ll show you how, and help you with the details for getting this going right away.
Slurm-based memory-aware scheduling in AWS ParallelCluster 3.2
AWS ParallelCluster version 3.2 now supports memory-aware scheduling in Slurm to give you control over the placement of jobs with specific memory requirements. In this blog post, we’ll show you how it works, and explain why this will be really useful to people with memory-hungry workloads.
Call for participation: RADIUSS Tutorial Series
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and AWS are joining forces to provide a training opportunity for emerging HPC tools and application. RADIUSS (Rapid Application Development via an Institutional Universal Software Stack) is a broad suite of open-source software projects originating from LLNL. Together we are hosting a tutorial series to give attendees hands-on experience with these cutting-edge technologies. Find out how to participate in these events in this blog post.
Introducing the Spack Rolling Binary Cache hosted on AWS
Today we’re excited to announce the availability of a new public Spack Binary Cache. In a collaboration, between AWS, E4S, Kitware, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Spack users now have access to a public build cache hosted on Amazon S3. The use of this Binary Cache will result in up to 20x faster install times for common Spack packages.