AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 with support for Ubuntu 24.04 and support for EFA-enabled with Amazon FSx for Lustre

AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Ubuntu 24.04, an updated Slurm version 24.05.07 and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)-enabled Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems on official ParallelCluster AMIs. You can use EFA with your FSx Lustre filesystems to achieve higher throughput and complete jobs faster, reducing overall costs. To get started with enabling EFA with FSx Lustre filesystems on your clusters, follow the tutorial in the ParallelCluster User Guide - [Creating a cluster with an EFA-enabled FSx Lustre ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/tutorial-efa-enabled-fsx-lustre.html). ParallelCluster is a fully-supported and maintained open-source cluster management tool that enables R&D customers and their IT administrators to operate high-performance computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. ParallelCluster is designed to automatically and securely provision cloud resources into elastically-scaling HPC clusters capable of running scientific and engineering workloads at scale on AWS. ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge in the AWS Regions listed [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/supported-regions.html), and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications. To learn more about launching HPC clusters on AWS, visit the ParallelCluster [User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/tutorials-v3.html). To start using ParallelCluster, see the installation instructions for ParallelCluster [UI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/install-pcui-v3.html) and [CLI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/install-v3-parallelcluster.html).