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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi StarCluster</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I am planning to setup an HPC cluster for an operational forecasting project. I have created a new AWS account for this purpose and setup up IAM for various users on the project to have access
and control over resources with proper unique users, role separation and least privilege.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">What are best practices for sharing administration of StarCluster resources? </div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">When I create a config file I can share it with other users as long as I get my AWS credentials from my ENV variables. </div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">What about the user id? </div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Does this have to be the root AWS account ID or can I use my User ARN (of the form: <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Roboto, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; ">arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/username)</span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Roboto, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; ">Can
I set this as an environment variable as well?</span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Roboto, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; ">What
about PEM files – what is ec2_cert in the config file used for?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12px; color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">David</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12px; color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> Stuebe</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12px; "><span style="color: navy; ">Email: </span></b><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12px; color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:David.Stuebe@rpsgroup.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">David.Stuebe@rpsgroup.com</a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br>
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