What does this AWS Solution do?
The Scale-Out Computing on AWS solution helps customers deploy and operate a multiuser environment for computationally intensive workflows, such as computer-aided engineering (CAE). The solution features a large selection of compute resources, a fast network backbone, unlimited storage, and budget and cost management directly integrated within AWS.
Benefits
User interface
Pre- and post-processing in the cloud
Real-time analytics
Custom code and automation
AWS Solution overview
The diagram below presents the architecture you can automatically deploy using the solution's implementation guide and accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.
Scale-Out Computing on AWS architecture
The CloudFormation template deploys the following architecture consisting of eight components:
1. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to automatically provision the resources necessary to run cluster user tasks such as scale-out compute jobs.
2. This solution also deploys Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for persistent storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for persistent logs, and optional parallel file system Amazon FSx for Lustre.
3. At its core, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance implements a scheduler, which dynamically provisions AWS resources required for jobs submitted by users. The scheduler instance also hosts web interface which allows users and administrators to interact with the environment.
4. Launch a 2D or 3D Workstation that uses NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), that can be used to submit batch jobs and run GUI tools.
5. Security services and resources that are used include AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Certificate Manager, Security Groups , and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
6. AWS Lambda functions to verify the required prerequisites and create a default signed certificate for an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to manage access to DCV workstation sessions.
7. An Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster to store job and host information.
8. Elastic Load Balancing is used to ensure accessibility across Availability Zones, and Cost Allocation Tags are used with AWS Cost Explorer.
Scale-Out Computing on AWS
Version 2.7.0
Release date: 11/2021
Author: AWS
Estimated deployment time: 35 min
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