# Amazon ParallelCluster Documentation

Amazon ParallelCluster is an Amazon supported open source cluster management tool that helps you to deploy and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters in the Amazon Web Services Cloud.

- [User Guide (v3)](/en_us/parallelcluster/latest/ug/): Describes key concepts of Amazon ParallelCluster and provides instructions for using its features.

- [User Guide (v2)](/en_us/parallelcluster/v2/ug/): Describes key concepts of Amazon ParallelCluster and provides instructions for using its features.

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