Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Slurm clusters now support specifying minimum capacity requirements with continuous provisioning

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports minimum capacity requirements (MinCount) for clusters using Slurm orchestration with continuous provisioning. With continuous provisioning , HyperPod provisions clusters with available partial capacity so you can start your AI/ML jobs quickly, while continuing to provision remaining instances asynchronously in the background. While this provides flexibility, some training workloads require a guaranteed minimum number of nodes before they can start effectively.