[Starcluster] EC2 Cluster Compute Instances

[Justin Riley]

Dan/Austin,

Yea this is pretty exciting stuff, I'll certainly be looking to get the 
support
into StarCluster. As Dan pointed out there are some details to be worked out
before this instance type can be used; it's not as simple as just specifying
the instance type in the config.

Another issue besides the "Cluster placement groups" that Dan mentioned 
is that
you also *have* to use EBS-backed instances AND the EBS-backed AMI has to be a
HVM (Hardware Virtualized Machine) EBS AMI.

> But I'm sure Justin hasn't got anything else to work on :)

Hahaha :P I'll certainly get to this but when is a good question. If someone
wants to experiment with using this new HPC instance types with 
StarCluster I'd
love to get the feedback and any code contributions.

~Justin

Quoting Dan Yamins <dyamins at gmail.com>:

> This is great.   Using them in a meaningful way though will require
> integrating a bunch of new amazon concepts into starcluster
>
>  http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/
>
> especially, connecting the "cluster placement groups" with starcluster's
> existing cluster concept and configuration options.     But I'm sure Justin
> hasn't got anything else to work on :)
>
>
> d
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Austin Godber <godber at uberhip.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>     I thought it's worth mentioning that Amazon just announced new
>> instances targeted towards HPC, thats cool:
>>
>> Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large 23 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute
>> Units, 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit
>> Ethernet (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/)
>>
>> $1.60/hr
>>
>> Note the 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
>>
>> Austin
>>
>>
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