HPC clusters

Cluster Toolkit v1.106.0 is available.

This release adds support for flexible managed instance groups on static compute nodes, multiple network interfaces (multi-NIC) for Google Cloud Managed Lustre instances, and parallelism controls for Terraform to accelerate cluster deployment and teardown.

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports scaling logs

AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports scaling logs, which record how AWS PCS scales the compute node groups in your cluster.

Cluster Toolkit v1.104.0 is available.

This release adds agent skills to let you debug Kueue workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and migrate from the Accelerated Processing Kit (XPK).

AWS PCS now supports custom GRES, hardware topology, and MIG

AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports custom Generic Resource (GRES) settings and hardware topology, and adds support for Slurm version 26.05.

Google addressed multiple security vulnerabilities in Slurm that affect Cluster Toolkit.

For more information, see the security bulletin.

Google addressed a security vulnerability (CVE-2026-65107) in the Slurm sbcast tool that affects Cluster Toolkit.

For more information, see the security bulletin.

Cluster Toolkit version v1.103.0 is available.

This release simplifies the gcluster job configuration workflow, adds dynamic catalog fallback for system node pools, increases the maximum system node pool limit to 150 nodes, and replaces deprecated e2 instances with n2d across daily tests and configurations.

Cluster Toolkit version v1.102.0 is available.

This release enables Multi-Tier Checkpointing (MTC) when you create GKE clusters, and adds support for Flex unified volumes to NetApp Volumes modules.

AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 adds an on-node diagnostics tool

AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 is now generally available with a new on-node diagnostics tool, cluster stability improvements, and an updated HPC and AI/ML software stack.

Cluster Toolkit version v1.101.0 is available.

This release adds support for Persistent Disk storage pools to the vm-instance module, GKE node pools, and storage. The update also optimizes dependency management to improve the user experience, and updates Cloud TPU v4 and TPU v5p shorthand mappings to use TensorCore counts.

AWS Parallel Computing Service is now in scope for FedRAMP, SOC, ISO, CSA STAR, and PCI

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a managed service that simplifies running and scaling high performance computing (HPC) workloads on AWS using Slurm, has expanded its security and compliance coverage.

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports node lifecycle actions

Today, AWS announces the general availability of node lifecycle actions in AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS). With node lifecycle actions, you can run custom scripts automatically at defined points in a compute node's lifecycle.

AWS Parallel Computing Service supports in-place Slurm major version upgrades

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports managed in-place Slurm version upgrades for existing clusters. You can move your clusters up to three Slurm major versions ahead with no disruption to running jobs.

AWS Parallel Computing Service supports P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServers

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling customers to run large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters.

AWS PCS now provides a production-ready Deep Learning AMI

Today, AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) launches PCS-ready DLAMI, an AWS-maintained Amazon Machine Image built on the Deep Learning Base GPU AMI (Ubuntu 24.04).

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm 25.11

AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports Slurm version 25.11, with support for a Prometheus-compatible OpenMetrics endpoint, and introduces new log types including scheduler audit logs.

AWS Parallel Computing Service supports slurmdbd and cgroups settings

AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports additional Slurm configuration settings for slurmdbd and cgroups, enabling you to fine-tune accounting behavior and resource isolation directly through the AWS PCS console, CLI, or SDK.

AWS ParallelCluster 3.15 with support for P6-B300 and Slurm 25.11

AWS ParallelCluster 3.15 is now generally available. This release adds support for P6-B300 instance types and upgrades Slurm to version 25.11 with expedited job requeue.