Overview
Alces Flight Solo provides a personal High Performance Computing (HPC) environment for research and scientific computing. Compatible with on-demand, reserved and spot instances, Flight Solo rapidly delivers a whole HPC software environment, ready to go and complete with job scheduler, applications and remote desktop service. Multiple software application frameworks are available for use including SPack, Easybuild and Conda containing many hundreds of different programs, libraries, compilers and MPIs. Data management tools for POSIX and S3 object storage are also included to help users transfer files and manage storage resources.
Highlights
- Self-configuring High Performance Compute environment - jump straight to the science instead of configuration.
- Access to multiple software repositories providing simple installation for hundreds of applications, accelerated libraries and compiler versions.
- Traditional High Performance Compute cluster look and feel delivered as your personal research environment.
Details
Typical total price
$0.68/hour
Pricing
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t3.medium | $0.00 | $0.042 | $0.042 |
t3.large | $0.00 | $0.083 | $0.083 |
t3.xlarge | $0.00 | $0.166 | $0.166 |
t3.2xlarge | $0.00 | $0.333 | $0.333 |
t3a.medium | $0.00 | $0.038 | $0.038 |
t3a.large | $0.00 | $0.075 | $0.075 |
t3a.xlarge | $0.00 | $0.15 | $0.15 |
t3a.2xlarge | $0.00 | $0.301 | $0.301 |
m3.large | $0.00 | $0.133 | $0.133 |
m3.xlarge | $0.00 | $0.266 | $0.266 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
N/A
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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
Flight Solo 2024.1 Release Notes
Version: 2024.1 Date: 07/02/2024
New Features
- View the currently running configuration tasks along with durations in Flight Profile view
- Ability to migrate Silo software downloads to "archives" which can be re-applied to new instances of Flight Solo
- Rename and add descriptions to Silos
Improvements
- Quicker Flight Profile configuration process with streamlined options
- General security & stability improvements
- Clear output from Flight Silo file list command
- Support for genders-style and regex node selection in Flight Hunter commands
- Flight Silo permissions checking and directory selection
Known Limitations
- Azure: Kubernetes container DNS network does not resolve
- Flight Silo: Editing the details of a silo that's including in an archive may cause "Silo not found" errors
- Flight Silo: Removing a silo defined locally that is deleted upstream will result in an error
- Flight Hunter: Interactive parse textbox can scroll up the terminal window in sessions with few columns (low width)
- Flight Profile: Completed nodes show check tasks from subsequent runs in view output
Additional details
Usage instructions
For command-line login, SSH to the instance and login as username "flight" using the SSH key specified at launch. Additional information may be found at: https://docs.openflighthpc.org/
To monitor your instance, navigate to the Amazon EC2 console, verify that you have selected the correct region, choose "Instance" and select your launched instance. Select the server to display your metadata page and choose the Status Checks tab at the bottom of the page to review if your status checks have passed or failed.
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