We're excited to announce the release of AWS ParallelCluster 3.13.0
Upgrade
How to upgrade?
sudo pip install --upgrade aws-parallelcluster
DEPRECATIONS
- This is the last ParallelCluster release supporting Ubuntu 20.04
as Ubuntu 20.04 will be in End-Of-Standard-Support on May 2025.
ENHANCEMENTS
- Add support for Ubuntu 24.04.
- Add support for ap-southeast-7 region.
- Disable unused services cups and wpa_supplicant from Official ParallelCluster AMIs to improve security.
CHANGES
- Upgrade Slurm to version 24.05.7.
- Upgrade NVIDIA driver to version 570.86.15 (from 550.127.08) for all OSs except AL2.
- Upgrade CUDA Toolkit to version 12.8.0 (from 12.4.1) for all OSs except AL2.
- Upgrade Python to 3.12.8 for all OSs except AL2 (from 3.9.20).
- On Ubuntu 22.04, install the Nvidia driver with the same compiler version used to compile the kernel.
- Upgrade aws-cfn-bootstrap to version 2.0-33.
- Upgrade EFA installer to 1.38.0 (from 1.36.0).
- Efa-driver: efa-2.13.0-1
- Efa-config: efa-config-1.17-1
- Efa-profile: efa-profile-1.7-1
- Libfabric-aws: libfabric-aws-1.22.0-1
- Rdma-core: rdma-core-54.0-1
- Open MPI: openmpi40-aws-4.1.7-1 and openmpi50-aws-5.0.5
- Upgrade amazon-efs-utils to version 2.1.0.
- Remove third-party cookbook: apt-7.5.22 and pyenv-4.2.3.
- Upgrade third-party cookbook dependencies:
- line-4.5.21 (from line-4.5.13)
- nfs-5.1.5 (from nfs-5.1.2)
- openssh-2.11.14 (from openssh-2.11.12)
- yum-7.4.20 (from yum-7.4.13)
- yum-epel-5.0.8 (from yum-epel-5.0.2)
- Upgrade Pmix to 5.0.6 (from 5.0.3).
- Upgrade ARM PL to version 24.10 (from 23.10).
- Upgrade Python to version 3.12.8 (from 3.9.17) in Lambda layer and installer.
- Upgrade NodeJS to version 20.18.3 (from 18.20.3) in Lambda layer and installer.
- Remove generation of DSA keys for login nodes as DSA, which became unsupported in OpenSSH 9.7+.
- Set instance ID and instance type information in Slurm upon compute nodes launch.
- Install NVIDIA drivers without the option 'no-cc-version-check', which is now deprecated in the NVIDIA installer.
- Add validator to enforce up to 10- login node pools.
- Update the default root volume size to 45 GB.
- Increase HeadNodeBootstrapTimeout by 5 minutes, making it 35 minutes in total.
BUG FIXES
- Remove usage of cfn-init for compute node bootstrapping to reduce node scale up time.
- Fix an issue causing compute node bootstrap failure when a proxy is used.
- On Ubuntu 22.04, install the Nvidia driver with the same compiler version used to compile the kernel
to prevent installation failures.- Fix the execution of overriding aws-parallelcluster-node package only on the head node during update. - Fix an issue where containerized jobs executed through Pyxis/Enroot in a multi-user environment (integrated with Active Directory) would fail.
- Fix usage of authselect causing node bootstrap failures on Rocky 9.5+ when directory service is used.