AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.7

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 2.11.7

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.7

CHANGES

• Upgrade Slurm to version 20.11.9.

AWS ParallelCluster v3.1.3

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 3.1.3

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v3.1.3

ENHANCEMENTS

• Execute SSH key creation alongside with the creation of HOME directory, i.e.
  during SSH login, when switching to another user and when executing a command as another user.
• Add support for both FQDN and LDAP Distinguished Names in the configuration parameter DirectoryService/DomainName. The new validator now checks both the syntaxes.
• New update_directory_service_password.sh script deployed on the head node supports the manual update of the Active Directory password in the SSSD configuration.
  The password is retrieved by the AWS Secrets Manager as from the cluster configuration.

CHANGES

• Disable deeper C-States in x86_64 official AMIs and AMIs created through build-image command, to guarantee high performance and low latency.

BUG FIXES

• Fix the configuration parameter DirectoryService/DomainAddr conversion to ldap_uri SSSD property when it contains multiples domain addresses.

AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.6

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 2.11.6

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.6

CHANGES

• OS package updates and security fixes.

AWS ParallelCluster v3.1.2

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 3.1.2

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v3.1.2

BUG FIXES

• Fix the update of /etc/hosts file on computes nodes when a cluster is deployed in subnets without internet access.
• Fix compute nodes bootstrap by waiting for ephemeral drives initialization before joining the cluster.

CHANGES

• Upgrade Slurm to version 21.08.6.

AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.5

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 2.11.5

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.5

CHANGES

• Drop support for SGE and Torque schedulers.
• Remove nodewatcher, sqswatcher, jobwatcher related code.
• Disable log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch service on Amazon Linux to avoid incurring in potential performance degradation.
• Upgrade NVIDIA driver to version 470.103.01.
• Upgrade CUDA library to version 11.4.4.
• Upgrade NVIDIA Fabric manager to version 470.103.01.
• Upgrade Intel MPI Library to 2021.4.0.441.

BUG FIXES

• Fix DCV connection through browsers.

AWS ParallelCluster v3.1.1

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 3.1.1

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v3.1.1

ENHANCEMENTS

• Add support for multiple users cluster environments by integrating with Active Directory (AD) domains managed via AWS Directory Service.
• Install NVIDIA drivers and CUDA library for ARM.

CHANGES

• Upgrade Slurm to version 21.08.5.
• Upgrade NICE DCV to version 2021.3-11591.
• Upgrade NVIDIA driver to version 470.103.01.
• Upgrade CUDA library to version 11.4.4.
• Upgrade NVIDIA Fabric manager to version 470.103.01.
• Upgrade Intel MPI Library to 2021.4.0.441.
• Upgrade PMIx to version 3.2.3.
• Move the configure/install recipes to separate cookbooks that are called from the main one. Existing entrypoints are maintained and backwards compatible.
• Download dependencies of Intel HPC platform during AMI build time to avoid contacting internet during cluster creation time.
• Do not strip - from compute resource name when configuring Slurm nodes.
• Add cluster parameter directory_service.disabled_on_compute_nodes to disable AD integration on compute nodes.

BUG FIXES

• Do not configure GPUs in Slurm when NVIDIA driver is not installed.
• Fix the way ExtraChefAttributes are merged into the final configuration.

AWS ParallelCluster v3.0.3

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 3.0.3

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v3.0.3

CHANGES

• Disable log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch service on Amazon Linux to avoid incurring in potential performance degradation.

AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.4

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 2.11.4

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.4

CHANGES

• CentOS 8 is no longer supported (EOL on December 31st, 2021).
• Upgrade Slurm to version 20.11.8.
• Upgrade Cinc Client to version 17.2.29.
• Upgrade NICE DCV to version 2021.2-11190.
• Upgrade NVIDIA driver to version 470.82.01.
• Upgrade CUDA library to version 11.4.3.
• Upgrade NVIDIA Fabric manager to 470.82.01.
• Disable unattended packages update on Ubuntu.
• Install Python 3 version of aws-cfn-bootstrap scripts on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 18.04, aligning with Ubuntu 20.04 and Amazon Linux 2.

AWS ParallelCluster v3.0.2

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 3.0.2

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v3.0.2

3.0.2

CHANGES

• Upgrade EFA installer to version 1.14.1. Thereafter, EFA enables GDR support by default on supported instance type(s).
  ParallelCluster does not reinstall EFA during node start. Previously, EFA was reinstalled if GdrSupport had been
  turned on in the configuration file.
  • EFA configuration: efa-config-1.9-1
  • EFA profile: efa-profile-1.5-1
  • EFA kernel module: efa-1.14.2
  • RDMA core: rdma-core-37.0
  • Libfabric: libfabric-1.13.2
  • Open MPI: openmpi40-aws-4.1.1-2

BUG FIXES

• Fix issue that is preventing cluster names to start with parallelcluster- prefix.

AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.3

We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster Cookbook 2.11.3

This is associated with AWS ParallelCluster v2.11.3

2.11.3

CHANGES

• Upgrade EFA installer to version 1.14.1. Thereafter, EFA enables GDR support by default on supported instance type(s).
  ParallelCluster does not reinstall EFA during node start. Previously, EFA was reinstalled if enable_efa_gdr had been
  turned on in the configuration file.
  • EFA configuration: efa-config-1.9-1
  • EFA profile: efa-profile-1.5-1
  • EFA kernel module: efa-1.14.2
  • RDMA core: rdma-core-37.0
  • Libfabric: libfabric-1.13.2
  • Open MPI: openmpi40-aws-4.1.1-2

BUG FIXES

• Fix failure when building AMI, due to SGE sources not available at arc.liv.ac.uk
• Fix cluster update when using proxy setup.
• Update ca-certificates package during AMI build time and prevent Chef from using outdated/distrusted CA certificates.