[Starcluster] URGENT: Old Starcluster 32-bit AMI needed

[Justin Riley]

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Hi Seppo,

I'm curious as well. I just sent this issue to webservices at amazon.com as
well asking what happened. I'll keep the list posted on what they say.

Thanks,

~Justin

On 03/03/2010 02:08 PM, Seppo Sahrakorpi wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> No problem. Thanks for all your work in rebuilding the AMIs. Please keep
> us posted when they are available.
> 
> I am curious to hear from Amazon what happened to the originals.
> 
> Thanks,
> Seppo
> 
> On 3/3/10 2:02 PM, Justin Riley wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> Thanks for supplying your public AMI for the time being and also the
> extra notes about your optimized scipy/numpy installation.
> 
> Sappo,
> 
> I'd like to add that I'm currently rebuilding the ubuntu 9.04
> starcluster public ami's and should have them by the end of the day
> today.
> 
> Also, they will contain optimized numpy/scipy/atlas/lapack/etc installed
> in the global python install by default.
> 
> Stay tuned and again my apologies for this mishap.
> 
> ~Justin
> 
> On 03/03/2010 01:37 PM, Dan Yamins wrote:
>>>> Hi Seppo,
>>>>
>>>> One quick comment about that AMI that Justin reminded me of:   I did my
>>>> own installation and optimization of numpy and scipy, to get later
>>>> versions than were originally present in the starcluster AMI and the
>>>> correct some problems in the original optimization procedure.   I put
>>>> these installations in a different place than the original, so as not to
>>>> blow the original installations away.    If you want to use my
>>>> installations (recommended I think), you'll have to add the following to
>>>> your PYTHONPATH:
>>>>
>>>>    /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
>>>>
>>>> Once you've done that, you should run the test suite, e.g:
>>>>
>>>>>>> import numpy
>>>>>>> numpy.test()
>>>> You should get 1 known fail (K) and 11 skips (S).
>>>>
>>>> If this is not what you get, make sure you[re using the right version of
>>>> numpy.  My installation is version 1.3.0:
>>>>
>>>>>>> numpy.version.version
>>>> '1.3.0'
>>>>
>>>> while the original installation is version 1.2.x (I think).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Seppo Sahrakorpi <seppo at seas.harvard.edu
>>>> <mailto:seppo at seas.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hi Dan, and Justin,
>>>>
>>>>     Thank you for the quick responses.
>>>>
>>>>     Dan, thank you very much for the quick fix. Your AMI works for our
>>>>     needs. Please keep this AMI for the moment, and let us know if
>>>> you plan
>>>>     on removing it. Again, thank you for helping us out.
>>>>
>>>>     Justin, it seems that the old AMI is still registered and listed,
>>>> but is
>>>>     not anymore actually available for use. If we try to launch the
>>>> AMI, we
>>>>     get this:
>>>>     HTTP 403 (Forbidden) response for URL
>>>>    
>>>> http://s3.amazonaws.com:80/starcluster/starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.04-i386-rc1.manifest.xml:
>>>>
>>>>     check your S3 ACLs are correct.
>>>>
>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>     Seppo
>>>>
>>>>     On 3/2/10 4:30 PM, Justin Riley wrote:
>>>>     > Hi Seppo,
>>>>     >
>>>>     > Sorry to hear you're having issues. I just checked the image in
>>>>     ElasticFox and
>>>>     > it's there and publicly available. So, I'm afraid there's not much
>>>>     I can do.
>>>>     > Are you getting an error? Can you see the image in ElasticFox?
>>>>     >
>>>>     > Thanks Dan for offering your AMI for the time being, however, I'd
>>>>     like to get
>>>>     > to the bottom of this.
>>>>     >
>>>>     > ~Justin
>>>>     >
>>>>     > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 4:17:53 pm Seppo Sahrakorpi wrote:
>>>>     >> Hi Justin,
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> The previous 32-bit Starcluster AMI 'ami-0330d16a' is seemingly
>>>>     missing
>>>>     >> now. Could you please re-enable / reinstall the old AMI as
>>>> soon as
>>>>     >> possible.
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> We are currently actively using Starcluster package for a course
>>>>     here at
>>>>     >> Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, so quick
>>>>     >> recovery/resolution of this is of great importance to us.
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> Thanks,
>>>>     >> Seppo
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> PS: We tried the new AMI ami-bb709dd2 w/ the original Starcluster
>>>>     0.90
>>>>     >> version that we have installed and are using, but that does not
>>>>     work out
>>>>     >> of the box.
>>>>     >>
>>>>
>>>>     --
>>>>     Seppo Sahrakorpi, Ph.D.
>>>>     Senior Research Engineer, User Services Lead
>>>>     Instructional and Research Computing Services
>>>>     Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences IT
>>>>     Maxwell Dworkin MD211, 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
>>>>     Phone: 617-495-3411      Email: seppo at seas.harvard.edu
>>>>     <mailto:seppo at seas.harvard.edu>
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