Elastic Fabric Adapter
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network device that has OS-bypass capabilities for
low-latency network
communications with other instances on the same subnet. EFA is exposed by using Libfabric,
and can be used by
applications using the Messaging Passing Interface (MPI). To use EFA with AWS ParallelCluster,
add the line enable_efa = compute to the [cluster] section. EFA is supported by
specific instance types (compute_instance_type is c5n.18xlarge,
c5n.metal, i3en.24xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5n.24xlarge,
r5dn.24xlarge, r5n.24xlarge, and p3dn.24xlarge) on specific operating
systems (base_os is alinux, alinux2, centos7,
ubuntu1604, or ubuntu1804). For more information about the enable_efa
setting, see enable_efa. A cluster placement group should be used to minimize latencies between
instances. For more information, see placement and placement_group.
For more information, see Elastic Fabric
Adapter in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances and Scale HPC Workloads with Elastic Fabric Adapter and AWS ParallelCluster
By default, Ubuntu distributions enable ptrace (process trace) protection. Starting with AWS ParallelCluster 2,6.0, ptrace protection is disabled so that Libfabric works properly. For more information, see Disable Ptrace Protection in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.
