pcluster start - AWS ParallelCluster
Positional argumentsNamed arguments

pcluster start

Starts the compute fleet for a cluster that has been stopped.

pcluster start [ -h ] [ -c CONFIG_FILE ] [ -r REGION ] cluster_name

Positional arguments

cluster_name

Starts the compute fleet of the provided cluster name.

Named arguments

-h, --help

Shows the help text for pcluster start.

-c CONFIG_FILE, --config CONFIG_FILE

Specifies the alternative configuration file to use.

Defaults to ~/.parallelcluster/config.

-r REGION, --region REGION

Specifies the AWS Region to use. Defaults to the AWS Region specified by using the pcluster configure command.

Example using AWS ParallelCluster version 2.11.7:

$ pcluster start mycluster
Compute fleet status is: RUNNING. Submitting status change request.
Request submitted successfully. It might take a while for the transition to complete.
Please run 'pcluster status' if you need to check compute fleet status

This command sets the Auto Scaling Group parameters to one of the following:

  • The initial configuration values (max_queue_size and initial_queue_size) from the template that was used to create the cluster.

  • The configuration values that were used to update the cluster since it was first created.