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Steps to setup AWS parallel cluster command line interface. The goal here is to install the necessary tools to setup a cluster from the command line and access the cluster from the command line.
Prerequisites
AWS Account
AWS vCPU limit must be high enough to handle your configuration. You can calculate your requirements and see your limits here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?#LimitsCalculator:
Python 3.6+ Installed
Pip Installed
All of this is assumed to be done with Ubuntu 18.04 and Python 3.6+, and Pip installed. It also requires having and AWS account.
Followed the guide to install AWS command line tools:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-virtualenv.html
I installed in a virtual environment, which proved to be a good move for managing dependencies.
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