StarCluster
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jtriley
StarCluster is an open source cluster-computing toolkit for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Most of the time the EC2 host for the master node is newly provisioned, hence we get an annoying message such as the following: ``` The authenticity of host 'ec2-23-22-250-167.compute-1.amazonaws.com...
New kernels rename /dev/sd\* to /dev/xda_, however these are used by ephemeral storage drives. So when an instance has ephemeral storage and an assigned EBS volume, there is no way...
If node doesn't have a DNS name (such as in a VPC) or public IP, the private ip address is all the is available.
It would be helpful to make the variables BASE_AMI_{32,64,HVM} into dictionaries instead keyed on zone with the relevant base AMI as a value. I was getting a cryptic error with...
A nice feature would be to allow for enabling dedicated tenancy, e.g. add an option to the config file such as "TENANCY = dedicated"
Does starcluster now or in the near future supports IAM role association with instance creation? Tools such as s3cmd are already designed to use them.
qw state
I was using c1.xlarge node instance, and I added 6 nodes. However, my job was still at 'qw' state after 12 hours waiting. Is thit normal? btw, the previous issue...
Two changes: 1) The mpich2 plugin searches for 'mpich2' in the output of 'update-alternatives --list mpirun' to find the location of the mpich2 path, but in Ubuntu 15.04, the command...
starcluster install under Windows 8, following install guidelines in documentation. the Python ssh emulator seems to produce garbage (or be incorrectly configured). I'm using Windows 8's cmd command window. C:\starcluster>starcluster...
- Add parameters MASTER_ENGINES and NODE_ENGINES for the ipcluster and ipclusterrestart plugins to allow for the specification of a certain number of engines on the master and nodes, respectively. -...
