This Guidance demonstrates how to design computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workloads on AWS. Large-scale aircraft simulations often require a heavy amount of compute for a short period. This Guidance moves CFD workloads to the cloud, where you can spin up thousands of compute cores and terminate them once a workload is complete, allowing you to provide valuable compute resources instantly without incurring the expense and delay of procuring servers. In the architecture, AWS ParallelCluster takes care of the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in setting up an HPC cluster (including setting up Slurm) and configures autoscaling, mounting filesystems, and tracking costs through tags.
