Setting up AWS ParallelCluster

The following topics describe how to set up AWS ParallelCluster. You will learn how to install the necessary tools and how to use them, how to implement and manage multiple user access to clusters, and the best practices.

Prerequisites

Before you can start setting up and using AWS ParallelCluster, make sure that you've completed the following prerequisites.

Setting up an AWS account

Set up an AWS account to use AWS ParallelCluster.

Sign up for an AWS account

To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. For information about creating an AWS account, see Getting started with an AWS account in the AWS Account Management Reference Guide.

Create a key pair

To deploy clusters, AWS ParallelCluster launches Amazon EC2 instances to create the cluster head node and compute nodes. To perform cluster tasks, such as running and monitoring jobs, or managing users, you must be able to access the cluster head node. To verify you can access the head node instance using SSH, you must use an Amazon EC2 key pair. To learn how to create a key pair, see Create a key pair in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Linux Instances.