Introducing Clusterra

Operating Slurm clusters for teams shouldn’t require SSH, spreadsheets, or surprise bills.

Slurm remains the backbone of HPC across bioinformatics, drug discovery, and research — but operating it in a team setting is still unnecessarily manual. User access is often managed through SSH keys and Linux accounts, cost attribution is an afterthought, and automation requires custom glue code that’s hard to maintain.

Clusterra is a managed Slurm platform built for biotech and bioinformatics teams. Run Nextflow pipelines and batch jobs on AWS Spot instances — saving 60–90% on compute — with a console, CLI, and API built on top. Clusterra focuses on the operational gaps that appear as soon as a cluster is shared:

Secure team access without SSH

Cluster access is managed via customer-owned OIDC (Okta / Entra ID). No SSH key distribution, no manual Linux user provisioning, and no direct head-node access required for day-to-day operations.

Built-in cost visibility and usage controls

Clusterra provides per-user and per-job cost breakdowns, along with quotas to limit usage and avoid surprise spend — without requiring external spreadsheets or post-hoc analysis.

Event-driven by design

Clusterra emits structured events for job states, node states, and user activity. This enables integrations such as Slack notifications, CI/CD hooks, and automated workflows around cluster and job lifecycle.

Two models: SaaS or BYOC

Start instantly with our managed SaaS cluster — submit Nextflow jobs in minutes with zero setup. Or deploy into your own AWS account (BYOC) for full data sovereignty. Either way, your pipelines run on cost-optimized Spot instances with automatic scale-to-zero.

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Clusterra is designed to reduce operational friction without changing how users run jobs. Researchers and engineers can continue using familiar Slurm workflows, while teams gain visibility, control, and automation that scales beyond a single admin.

Clusterra is now available for early users.

You can explore the demo or deploy it into your own AWS account at: https://clusterra.cloud

— Built by the former Product Manager for AWS Batch and AWS Parallel Computing Service.