Comparison of Cloud HPC Cluster Projects

Name	Creator	First public release date	Software license
AWS ParallelCluster	AWS	November 12, 2018	Apache License v2
Azure CycleCloud	Microsoft	October 17, 2018	MIT License
Azure HPC On-Demand Platform	Microsoft	April 23, 2021	MIT License
Cluster in the Cloud	Matt Williams - University of Bristol	March 27, 2019	MIT License
ElastiCluster	Riccardo Murri - University of Zurich	July 17, 2013	GPLv3
Google HPC-Toolkit	Google	May 26, 2022	Apache License v2
Magic Castle	Félix-Antoine Fortin - Compute Canada	August 26, 2019	MIT License
On-Demand Data Centre	Adaptive Computing	-	-
Slurm on GCP	SchedMD	March 14, 2018	Apache License v2

Supported cloud providers

Name	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud	IBM Cloud	OpenStack	Oracle Cloud	OVH
AWS ParallelCluster	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no
Azure CycleCloud	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Azure HPC On-Demand Platform	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Cluster-in-the-Cloud	no	yes	no	yes	no	no	yes	no
ElastiCluster*	no	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	no	-
Google HPC-Toolkit	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no
Magic Castle*	no	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	no	yes
On-Demand Data Centre	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no
Slurm on GCP	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no

* The documentation provides instructions on how to add support for other cloud providers.

Name	CentOS 7	CentOS 8	Rocky Linux 8	AlmaLinux 8	Debian 10	Ubuntu 18	Ubuntu 20	Windows 10
AWS ParallelCluster	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	no
Azure CycleCloud	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	-
Azure HPC On-Demand Platform	yes	no	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes
Google HPC-Toolkit	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
Cluster in the Cloud	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no
ElastiCluster	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Magic Castle	no	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
On-Demand Data Centre	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Slurm on GCP	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no

Name	AwsBatch	Grid Engine	HTCondor	Moab	Open PBS	PBS Pro	Slurm
AWS ParallelCluster	yes	no	no	no	no	no	yes
Azure CycleCloud	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes
Azure HPC On-Demand Platform	no	no	no	no	yes	no	yes
Google HPC-Toolkit	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
Cluster in the Cloud	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
ElastiCluster	no	yes	no	no	no	no	yes
Magic Castle	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
On-Demand Data Centre	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
Slurm on GCP	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes

Name	Infrastructure configuration	Programming languages	Configuration management	Scientific software
AWS ParallelCluster	CLI generating YAML	Python	Chef	Spack
Azure CycleCloud	WebUI or CLI + templates	Python	Chef	Bring your own
Azure HPC On-Demand Platform	YAML files + shell scripts	Shell, Terraform	Ansible, Packer	CVMFS
Cluster in the Cloud	CLI generating Terraform code	Python, Terraform	Ansible, Packer	EESSI
ElastiCluster	CLI interpreting an INI file	Python, Shell	Ansible	Bring your own
Google HPC-Toolkit	CLI generating Terraform code	Go, Terraform	Ansible, Packer	Spack
Magic Castle	Terraform modules	Terraform	Puppet	CC-CVMFS, EESSI
On-Demand Data Centre	-	-	-	-
Slurm GCP	Terraform modules	Terraform	Ansible, Packer	Spack