e. Connect to your Cluster
Once you’ve waited a few minutes, your cluster should now be deployed. By clicking the create button you have deployed a cluster head node along with several resources used to create instances in the cluster’s compute partition whenever jobs are submitted. The configuration you defined starts with 4 instances in this partition.
With all that information in mind, let’s connect to your cluster and we will start submitting some jobs so that you can test out ParallelCluster.
- Check that your cluster is successfully deployed as labeled by 1 in the screenshot below with the state CREATE_COMPLETE. If this state is reached, Click on the small Shell icon labeled by 2.
- A new tab in your web browser with access to the GNU Bash shell logged as the
ec2-user.
You are logged in your HPC system and will run some commands to get familiar with it in the next section.