Launching Cloud Edition on AWS

Step 1 - Subscribe to a Product Version

The first step in using CE on AWS is to navigate to the Amazon Marketplace and subscribe to the produce you will be using. The following products are available on the marketplace:

Cloud Edition - Premier Support (8x5)

Cloud Edition - Global Storage

Cloud Edition - Evaluation

Step 2 - Launch a Cloud Formation Template

The Intel Lustre AMI is designed to be used with a CloudFormation template that defines all the resources needed by the Lustre filesystem. The templates provided below have a minimal number of a parameters to simplify deployment. To get started you only need to set the KeyName to your ssh-key, and set the LustreAZ to the specific Availability Zone in the region you are using. There is also a Filesystem Name parameter which defaults to "scratch" but this can be changed.

Cloud Formation Templates - Premier Support (8x5)

Cloud Formation Templates - Global Storage

Cloud Formation Templates - Evaluation

Step 3 - Setup Client Machines to Mount Lustre

The final step is installing the Lustre client on each of the compute nodes. This will allow them to mount and connect to the Lustre filesystem.

Installing the Lustre Client

Product Versions & Features

There are currently three product versions available on AWS. Below is a listing of the versions as well as the associated features.

Premier Support (8x5)

This product offering is our high-end option with support from the Lustre* experts at Intel. It includes IPSec over-the-wire encryption, EBS encryption, Enhanced Networking, and C3 and C4 compute optimized instances as well as M4.10xlarge instances. Enhanced Networking provides SRIOV, which allows an physical device to be virtualized and connected directly to a virtual machine. This provides lower latency and more consistent performance.

Self Support

This product offering provides the same features as the Premier Support product, but without the included support from Intel. It includes IPSec over-the-wire encryption, EBS encryption, Enhanced Networking, and C3, C4, and M4.10xlarge instances. Also includes Enhanced Networking (SRIOV), and provides lower latency and consistent performance.

Global Storage

The Global Support offering is intended for use with HPC workloads, but does not include support for over-the-wire encryption and does not include support from Intel. With HA and EBS storage, this product can recover the filesystem after a Lustre server is terminated. In addition to supporting EBS for more resilient storage, this product also supports high-end instance types (C3 & C4) which provide a high performance filesystem. It does not support large C4.8xlarge instances (please use Premier Support or Self Support products to access this instance).

Evaluation

The "Evaluation" offering is an entry level product offered on Marketplace which can be used for proof-of-concept and development testing. Support is not included with this version, so we recommend moving to a product which includes "Premier Support" once you have evaluated the product.

* Contact Intel support for information on using these features

** Enhanced Networking is only supported with C3 and C4 instances