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Schedulers supported by Amazon ParallelCluster - Amazon ParallelCluster
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This documentation references Amazon ParallelCluster. For running HPC and AI workloads, we recommend Amazon Parallel Computing Service (Amazon PCS), our managed Slurm service that lets you focus on running your workloads rather than managing infrastructure.

Schedulers supported by Amazon ParallelCluster

Amazon ParallelCluster supports Slurm and Amazon Batch schedulers, which are set using the Scheduler setting. The following topics will describe each scheduler and how to use them. Starting with Amazon ParallelCluster version 3.16.0, Amazon Batch as a scheduler is no longer supported.