AWS Auto Scaling

A step-by-step instruction how to create a slurm cluster on AWS with auto-scaling possibility

a) upgrade your pip: pip install --upgrade pip

b) install aws client: pip install awscli

c) pip install aws-parallelcluster

d) prepare your aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key. Those can be found in "My Security Credentials -> Access keys (access key ID and secret access key)" section. If you haven't got it yet, press "Create New Access Key" and follow the instructions.

 aws configure
 Access Key ID [None]: _YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID_
 AWS Secret Access Key [None]: _YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_

Useful links:

• https://support.lumerical.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034082194-AWS-Use-Case-Multi-node-clusters-with-launch-templates
• https://github.com/aws/aws-parallelcluster
• https://aws-parallelcluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/index.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/what-is-amazon-ec2-auto-scaling.html