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Elastic High Performance Computing:Limits

Last Updated:Feb 05, 2026

The E-HPC Instant service has limits. Before using the service, we recommend that you understand these limits. So that you can plan accordingly, and request a quota increase if necessary. This topic describes the limits.

Quota limits

The E-HPC Instant computing service limits the resources that can be used or the number of times resources can be operated on under a single Alibaba Cloud account.

Restrictions

Quota

How to request an exception

Total number of jobs

10000. This is total number of jobs in non-terminal states (Initializing, Waiting, Retrying, Stopping, and Restarting) and in the Running state.

If you require a higher quota, submit a ticket.

Number of running jobs

2,000

If you require a higher quota, submit a ticket.

Total number of execution nodes

The total number of execution nodes in the Initializing, Waiting, Retrying, Stopping, Restarting, and Running states cannot exceed 10,000.

If you require a higher quota, submit a ticket.

Number of running execution nodes

2,000

If you require a higher quota, submit a ticket.

Job record retention period

30 days

If you require a higher quota, submit a ticket.

Job running limits

Limits

Description

How to request an exception

Scheduling policy

Only medium scheduling is supported.

None

Computing resources

The number of vCPUs and memory size of a single node support only fixed combinations. Custom configurations are not supported.

For more information, see Available CPU and memory.

If you require a higher quota, submit a ticket.

Disk size

20 GiB to 2,048 GiB. The disk size need to be larger than the size of the application image.

None

Image type

Only the following operating systems are supported:

  • Linux

    • CentOS 7.x

    • Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, or 24.04

    • Alibaba Cloud Linux 2.1903 or 3.2104

    • Rocky Linux 8.8, 8.9, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, or 9.5

  • Windows: Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, or 2025

None

Storage mount

Supported only on CentOS 7.x, Ubuntu, and Alibaba Cloud Linux.

None

Available CPU and memory

To request additional specifications and ratios, submit a ticket.

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

2

2, 4, 8, 12, 16

4

4, 8, 16, 24, 32

6

6, 12, 24, 36, 48

8

8, 16, 32, 48, 64

10

10, 20, 40, 60, 80

12

12, 24, 48, 72, 96

14

14, 28, 56, 84, 112

16

16, 32, 64, 96, 128