Release notes
This page lists updates to Elastic High Performance Computing (E-HPC) by release date, with links to the relevant documentation.
2023
September 2023
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Job submission by using a serverless cluster | New feature | Serverless clusters use elastic container instances as compute nodes. Provide packaged container images to run jobs. | 2023-09-08 | Create a serverless Kubernetes (ASK) cluster and Submit a job in a serverless cluster |
August 2023
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Supported schedulers | Optimized feature | The list of schedulers supported by E-HPC clusters is updated. | 2023-08-29 |
June 2023
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Job submission by using CLIs | Optimized feature | Sample CLI commands for job submission are updated. | 2023-06-21 | |
Cluster creation by using a template | Optimized feature | The parameters required when creating a cluster from a template are updated. | 2023-06-14 |
May 2023
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Molecular structure calculation by using Schrodinger | New feature | A best practice for using Schrodinger in an E-HPC cluster to calculate molecular structure is added. | 2023-05-19 | |
Disabling HT for compute nodes | New feature | Each compute node in an E-HPC cluster is an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance with Hyper-Threading (HT) enabled by default. In some HPC scenarios, disabling HT improves instance performance. | 2023-05-08 |
April 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Cluster inspection | New | The cluster inspection feature lets you run scripts on each node of a cluster using Cloud Assistant. This helps you check whether the cluster environment is running as expected. You can check cluster services, file folders, user permissions, storage mounts, and resource usage. | 2023-04-14 |
March 2023
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Ubuntu support for E-HPC clusters | New feature | A public image for Ubuntu 20.04 is released. E-HPC clusters can now run on Ubuntu. | 2023-03-15 | |
Support for attaching RDMA NICs to compute nodes | New | When you create a cluster or scale out nodes, you can attach elastic Remote Direct Memory Access (eRDMA) network interface controllers (NICs) to compute nodes to use high-performance RDMA network services. | 2023-03-15 |
July 2022
Feature Name | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Mount CPFS-NFS | New | E-HPC clusters now support mounting Cloud Paralleled File System (CPFS) file systems using the NFS protocol (CPFS-NFS). | 2022-07-15 |
Release notes in 2022
December 2022
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Automatic RAM role binding to added nodes | New feature | RAM roles authorized in the Authorized Instance Configuration section during cluster creation are automatically bound to nodes added during cluster scale-out. | 2022-12-07 | N/A |
October 2022
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
E-HPC clusters equipped with Yitian chips | New feature | E-HPC clusters can be created with Yitian chips. A complete HPC software stack is provided, including the HPC scheduler, MPI library, and HPC software. The g8m instance family is in invitational preview. Apply for a free trial on the invitational preview page page. | 2022-10-26 |
September 2022
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Operation logs | Optimized feature | Operation log queries now support filtering by time range, operation type, result, or request ID. Logs from the last 30 days are queryable, with a maximum query window of 7 days. | 2022-09-01 | |
Global search in the E-HPC console | New feature | Search for E-HPC clusters and node resources from the top search bar in the E-HPC console. Click any result to open its detail page. | 2022-09-01 | N/A |
August 2022
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Reports of E-HPC Slurm clusters | New feature | Core hours for E-HPC Slurm clusters can be queried by user or queue. | 2022-08-31 | N/A |
E-HPC event notifications | New | You can deliver management events for E-HPC clusters and nodes to EventBridge. This lets you receive, query, and consume these events. For example, you can consume E-HPC events from EventBridge to send event notifications. | 2022-08-22 |
June 2022
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
E-HPC client | New feature | Use the E-HPC client to submit jobs, query jobs, and manage job files. | 2022-06-16 | |
Job monitoring | New feature | View running, submitted, queuing, and completed job counts in the E-HPC console. | 2022-06-07 |
May 2022
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
E-HPC cluster creation | Optimized feature | Software installation is no longer part of the cluster creation wizard, which reduces cluster creation time. Install software after cluster creation from the Software Manage panel. | 2022-05-16 |
April 2022
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Storage resource monitoring | New feature | View cluster storage performance and usage over a specified time period. | 2022-04-27 | |
Auto scaling | Optimized feature | Configure the maximum and minimum number of compute nodes to add in each scale-out round. | 2022-04-01 |
March 2022
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
User management | Optimized feature | Console permissions for RAM users can be modified to control which modules are visible after they log on to the E-HPC console. | 2022-03-15 |
Releases before 2022
Release notes in 2021
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Hybrid cloud cluster | Optimized feature | Hybrid cloud clusters now support proxy mode. Proxy nodes on the cloud manage cloud cluster resources for on-premises clusters. | 2021-12-07 | |
Job submission | Optimized feature | The Submit Job tab in the Job module is updated. Use Workbench to log on to E-HPC clusters and edit job files. | 2021-11-25 | |
Hybrid cloud cluster scale-out | Optimized feature | Hybrid cloud clusters can be scaled out within a zone or across multiple zones. | 2021-10-26 | |
User management | New feature | RAM users can be bound to an E-HPC cluster for streamlined cluster management. | 2021-09-29 | Bind a RAM user to a cluster and Unbind RAM users from a cluster |
Scheduler management | New feature | Configure scheduler settings such as queue resource limits and job scheduling cycles to improve resource usage. | 2021-09-17 | |
Homepage customization | New feature | Set the Cluster, Job, or Nodes page as the default homepage of the E-HPC console. | 2021-08-30 | |
New region | New feature | E-HPC is available in the China (Heyuan) region. | 2021-05-13 | |
New region | New feature | E-HPC is available in the China (Ulanqab) region. | 2021-03-12 |
Release notes in 2020
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
E-HPC cluster creation | Optimized feature | The file system type can be selected when creating an E-HPC cluster. | 2020-11-23 | |
Hybrid cloud cluster | New feature | Open Grid Scheduler is now supported for hybrid cloud clusters. | 2020-06-02 | |
Image change | New feature | The default image of a cluster can be changed from the E-HPC console. | 2020-05-07 | |
Template-based E-HPC cluster creation | New feature | E-HPC clusters can be created from a template. Template files can be imported and exported. | 2020-04-24 |
2018
Feature | Type | Description | Release date | Reference |
Auto scaling | Optimized feature | Auto scaling can be configured per queue for E-HPC clusters. | 2018-09-27 | |
GPU performance monitoring | New feature | GPU performance of E-HPC clusters can be monitored. | 2018-09-27 | |
E-HPC cluster scale-out | Optimized feature | Compute nodes of a different instance type from existing nodes can be added during cluster scale-out. | 2018-07-12 | |
Job submission | New feature | Jobs can be submitted from the E-HPC console. | 2018-06-29 | |
Auto scaling | Optimized feature | Auto scaling is supported for E-HPC clusters using the LSF scheduler. | 2018-06-05 | |
Auto scaling | Optimized feature | Preemptible instances are supported in auto scaling policies. | 2018-05-22 | |
Billing method | New feature | Subscription E-HPC clusters can be created and scaled out. | 2018-04-26 | |
E-HPC cluster status | New feature | The Stopped and Deploying states are added for E-HPC clusters. | 2018-04-18 | |
New region | New feature | E-HPC is available in the China (Qingdao) region. | 2018-01-25 | |
E-HPC | New feature | E-HPC is released. | 2018-01-11 |