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Elastic High Performance Computing:Limits

Last Updated:Apr 01, 2026

E-HPC Instant enforces two categories of limits: quotas (soft limits that can be increased by submitting a ticket) and service limits (fixed constraints that cannot be changed). Review these limits before deploying workloads to plan your resource requirements.

Quota limits

Quotas apply per Alibaba Cloud account. To request a quota increase, submit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticket.

ResourceQuota
Total jobs (non-terminal states: Initializing, Waiting, Retrying, Stopping, and Restarting; plus Running)10,000
Running jobs2,000
Total execution nodes (Initializing, Waiting, Retrying, Stopping, Restarting, and Running states)10,000
Running execution nodes2,000
Job record retention period30 days

Service limits

ResourceLimitHow to request an exception
Scheduling policyMedium scheduling onlyNone
Computing resourcesFixed vCPU and memory combinations only. Custom configurations are not supported. See Available CPU and memory.Submit a ticketSubmit a ticketSubmit a ticketSubmit a ticketSubmit a ticketSubmit a ticketSubmit a ticketSubmit a ticket
Disk size20 GiB to 2,048 GiB. The disk must be larger than the application image.None
Supported operating systemsLinux: 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 mountCentOS 7.x, Ubuntu, and Alibaba Cloud Linux onlyNone

Available CPU and memory

To request additional vCPU and memory specifications or ratios, submit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticketsubmit a ticket.
vCPUMemory (GiB)
22, 4, 8, 12, 16
44, 8, 16, 24, 32
66, 12, 24, 36, 48
88, 16, 32, 48, 64
1010, 20, 40, 60, 80
1212, 24, 48, 72, 96
1414, 28, 56, 84, 112
1616, 32, 64, 96, 128