This product has charges associated with it for optional seller support and pre-configured stack (ParaTools Pro for E4S™). ParaTools Pro for E4S™ is the hardened Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack on Ubuntu, using AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS), with over 100 HPC and AI/ML tools, a remote desktop environment (Amazon DCV), and cluster configuration built using the Spack package manager and a proprietary MVAPICH-Plus 4 MPI tuned for AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). Develop AI/ML applications using tools such as JAX, Keras, NVIDIA BioNeMo, NVIDIA NeMo™, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and vLLM tuned for AWS Parallel Computing Service, with a complete HPC software stack including numerical libraries (PETSc, SuperLU-dist, Trilinos, WRF), performance evaluation tools (HPCToolkit, TAU), HPC applications (GROMACS, LAMMPS, OpenFOAM, Quantum Espresso, WarpX, Xyce).
ParaTools Pro for E4S™ - the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack, E4S™ hardened for commercial clouds and supported by ParaTools, Inc., provides a platform for developing and deploying HPC and AI/ML applications. It features an Amazon DCV remote desktop environment on the login node, with compute nodes interconnected by a low-latency, high-bandwidth network adapter based on AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). ParaTools Pro for E4S™ features a suite of over 100 HPC tools built using the Spack package manager and a proprietary MVAPICH-Plus 4 MPI tuned for EFA utilizing SLURM for job management. It features ready-to-use HPC applications (GROMACS, LAMMPS, OpenFOAM, Quantum Espresso, WarpX, Weather Research and Forecasting Model-WRF, Xyce) as well as AI/ML tools based on Python (Hugging Face Transformers, JAX, Keras, matplotlib, NVIDIA BioNeMo, NVIDIA NeMo™, OpenCV, PyTorch, TensorFlow, vLLM, with JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook) and the VSCodium IDE. New packages can be easily installed using Spack and pip and are accessible on the cluster compute and login nodes. It may be used for developing the next generation of generative AI applications using a suite of Python tools and interfaces.
E4S™ has built a unified computing environment for deployment of open-source projects. E4S™ was originally developed to provide a common software environment for the exascale leadership computing systems currently being deployed at DOE National Laboratories across the U.S. Support for ParaTools Pro for E4S™ is available through ParaTools, Inc. This product has additional charges associated with it for optional product support and updates.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), under SBIR Award Number DE-SC0022502 ("E4S: Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for Commercial Clouds").
Note: This product contains repackaged and tuned open source software (e.g., E4S™, Spack and AI/ML tools like NVIDIA NeMo™, BioNeMo, PyTorch, JAX, vLLM, Keras, Hugging Face Transformers etc.) which is configured and linked against a proprietary MVAPICH-Plus 4 MPI implementation specifically developed and tuned for EFA.
The full list of E4S applications installed via Spack is as follows:
adios
adios2
alquimia
aml
amrex
arborx
argobots
ascent
axom
boost
butterflypack
cabana
caliper
chai
chapel
charliecloud
conduit
cp2k
cusz
darshan-runtime
darshan-util
datatransferkit
dyninst
e4s-alc
e4s-cl
exaworks
faodel
flit
flux-core
fpm
gasnet
ginkgo
globalarrays
gmp
gotcha
gptune
gromacs
h5bench
hdf5
hdf5-vol-async
hdf5-vol-cache
hdf5-vol-log
heffte
hpctoolkit
hpx
hypre
kokkos
kokkos-kernels
laghos
lammps
lbann
legion
libcatalyst
libceed
libnrm
libpressio
libquo
libunwind
loki
magma
mercury
metall
mfem
mgard
mpark-variant
mpifileutils
nccmp
nco
nek5000
nekbone
netcdf-fortran
netlib-scalapack
nrm
omega-h
openfoam
openmpi
openpmd-api
papi
papyrus
parallel-netcdf
parsec
pdt
petsc
phist
plasma
plumed
precice
pruners-ninja
pumi
py-cinemasci
py-h5py
py-jupyterhub
py-libensemble
py-petsc4py
qthreads
quantum-espresso
raja
rempi
scr
slate
slepc
stc
strumpack
sundials
superlu
superlu-dist
swig
sz
sz3
tasmanian
tau
trilinos
turbine
umap
umpire
upcxx
veloc
vtk-m
wannier90
warpx
wps
wrf
xyce
zfp
Highlights
ParaTools Pro for E4S™ and Machine Learning stacks, including NVIDIA NeMo™ and BioNeMo, built and optimized for AWS EFA and AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS)
A proprietary MVAPICH-Plus 4 MPI implementation that offers lower latency and higher throughput than default OpenMPI implementations for pre-installed applications and user installed applications
HPC software environment managed using the Spack package manager
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ParaTools Pro for E4S™: AI/ML & HPC Tools on AWS PCS (ARM64)
You pay by the hour based on the ARM64 (Graviton) EC2 instance type you run this software on with AWS Parallel Computing Service. Each dimension maps to a single instance type, so there are no tiers or plans to choose between. Pricing scales with the size and family of instance you select. Smaller instances (like t4g.nano or c6g.medium) carry lower hourly rates, while larger and metal instances (like x8g.48xlarge or r8g.metal-48xl) carry higher rates. You pick the instances that fit your HPC or AI/ML workload and pay only for the hours used.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What does one hourly unit cover, and what am I paying for beyond the software?
Each hourly unit maps to one running ARM64 (Graviton) EC2 instance of the type you select. The rate covers the ParaTools Pro for E4S software running on that instance. AWS charges the underlying EC2 compute, storage, and networking separately. You pay for both together on the same AWS bill.
Am I charged for instances that are stopped or idle in my cluster?
The software rate meters running instance-hours. Instances you stop or terminate stop accruing the hourly software charge. Because this runs with AWS Parallel Computing Service, compute nodes can scale up and down for jobs, so you pay only for the hours instances actually run. AWS storage fees may still apply to stopped instances.
If I run several instance types across my cluster, how do the charges combine?
Each instance type bills independently at its own hourly rate. If your cluster mixes a head node and several compute nodes of different types, each running instance accrues its matching hourly charge. Your total is the sum of all running instances' hours across the types you use.
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An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
AWS PCS: 1.4.0
E4S release: 26.06
Inter-node communication: EFA or Ethernet (EFA recommended for best MPI performance)
Default MPI: MVAPICH4-Plus 4.1
OS: Ubuntu 24.04
DCV: 2025.0 (r20103) for remote desktop access
Critical (security): this version removes the GNU inetutils telnet server, remediating CVE-2026-32746 (telnetd LINEMODE SLC out-of-bounds write; pre-auth unauthenticated root RCE on port 23). No telnet or inetutils-telnetd package is present and nothing listens on port 23.
IMPORTANT:
The MVAPICH4-Plus MPI shipped with this image supports both EFA and standard Ethernet for inter-node communication, but EFA is strongly recommended for best MPI performance.
To get a list of instance types that are EFA compatible you can use the AWS CLI:
NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA BioNeMo and the AI/ML frameworks are installed into the system Python environment at /opt/python and are importable without activating a separate virtual environment.
Updates in this version:
AWS PCS upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.4.0
E4S upgraded from 25.11 to 26.06
Security: removed the inetutils telnet server (CVE-2026-32746)
ParaTools Pro for E4S (TM) provides a turn-key cloud HPC solution with the E4S Software stack and machine learning tools and SDKs installed and optimized to run on AWS. The key software features and versions installed are:
Ubuntu 24.04, arm64
Amazon DCV 2025.0 remote desktop
VSCodium IDE 1.121.03429
E4S 26.06 CPU and CUDA (sm_75) applications installed
Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF 4.7.1)
MVAPICH4-Plus 4.1 (supports EFA and Ethernet; EFA recommended for best performance)
CUDA 12.9, NVIDIA driver 580.126.20, cuDNN 9.10.2, NCCL 2.30.7
The 1-Click Security Group opens port 22 only so that you can access your instance via SSH using login 'ubuntu', you may change this later.
For software development and basic usage:
Launch the ParaTools Pro for E4S (TM) AMI via 1-Click
On the 'EC2 Launch an Instance' page pick the key pair you will use to login
On the 'EC2 Launch an Instance' page optionally edit the network settings by pressing the edit button. Adjust the firewall rules if needed to ensure ssh access and enable Auto-assign public IP if you plan to access the instance remotely from a non-AWS IP address.
Click 'Launch Instance'
Find your running instance in the EC2 Instances section of the EC2 dashboard, and connect to the instance via SSH using the username ubuntu and the key pair you previously selected by picking the instance and pressing the connect button.
For more advanced usage, including launching an ParaTools Pro for E4S (TM) cluster with AWS Parallel Computing Service, please see:
Paid support contracts and custom AMIs and computing environments are available. Please see https://paratoolspro.com/ for additional details.
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This product has charges associated with it for optional seller support and pre-configured stack (ParaTools Pro for E4S™). ParaTools Pro for E4S™ is the hardened Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack on Ubuntu, using AWS ParallelCluster, with over 100 HPC and AI/ML tools, an optional Amazon DCV remote desktop on the cluster head node, and cluster configuration built using the Spack package manager and a proprietary MVAPICH-Plus 4 MPI tuned for AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). Develop AI/ML applications using tools such as JAX, Keras, NVIDIA BioNeMo, NVIDIA NeMo™, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and vLLM tuned for AWS ParallelCluster, with a complete HPC software stack including numerical libraries (PETSc, SuperLU-dist, Trilinos, WRF), visualization tools (Ascent, VTK-m), performance evaluation tools (HPCToolkit, TAU), HPC applications (GROMACS, LAMMPS, OpenFOAM, Quantum Espresso, WarpX, Xyce).
This product has charges associated with it for optional seller support and pre-configured stack (ParaTools Pro for E4S™). ParaTools Pro for E4S™ is the hardened Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack on Ubuntu, for use with Adaptive Computing's Heidi AI Cloud Supercomputer. It includes over 100 HPC and AI/ML tools, a web-based remote desktop environment, and cluster configuration built using the Spack package manager and a proprietary MVAPICH-Plus 4 MPI tuned for AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). Develop AI/ML applications using tools such as JAX, Keras, NIXL, NVIDIA BioNeMo, NVIDIA NeMo™, PyTorch, SGLang, TensorFlow, and vLLM tuned for AWS and Heidi. The HPC stack features numerical libraries (PETSc, SuperLU-dist, Trilinos, WRF), visualization tools (ParaView, VisIt), performance evaluation tools (HPCToolkit, TAU), GPU communication libraries (NCCL, NVSHMEM), and HPC applications (CP2K, GROMACS, LAMMPS, OpenFOAM, Quantum Espresso, WarpX, Xyce).
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