We want to make it easier for customers to extend and build on AWS using tools like AWS ParallelCluster, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and some of the hundreds of other AWS services that customers often use to make discoveries from their data or simulations.

Recently, we introduced you to new capabilities in ParallelCluster that provide a neat way to create self-documenting infrastructure – mainly by first writing the specs into AWS CloudFormation templates, then letting CloudFormation build the infrastructure for you behind the scenes. This lets you version control your cluster by putting your templates under source control. You can even embed their management in continuous integration systems.

Today we’re making available a community library of patterns that build on that functionality. HPC Recipes for AWS is a public repository at GitHub that hosts interoperable CloudFormation templates designed to work together to build complete HPC environments. We believe this library will help customers achieve feature-rich, reliable HPC deployments that are ready to run diverse workloads – regardless of where they’re starting from.

In this post, we’ll provide some background about this new project, and take you for a tour of some of its components. Finally, we’ll show you how to cook up a cluster from these recipes in just a few minutes.

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